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Subject: c/church_of_rhythm/common_people.crd
Common People
Written by Church of Rhythm (from Not Perfect)
Transcribed by Mark Guinn (
[email protected])
6-20-97
These chords are easy, so I m not gonna write them down. You can use
power or open chords. They both sound pretty good (I like to mix them).
Chorus:
We are a common people, each of us a fallen man
Let s find that common ground and stop drawing lines in the sand
We are a common people, living in a common life
There are ties that bind us all when we look beyond the lines
Common people you and I
Common people you and I
I see a blind man on the street
He doesn t know what I look like
So he can t judge the man I am
Except by what he sees inside
I see a child on the street
He doesn t know the mistakes I ve made
I know he takes me where I am
He sees a friend not a crusade
Chorus.
I see a brother on the other side
of my crusade, my holy fight
I think I know where I went wrong
when I gave up love to be proved right
I saw a man die on a cross
He forgot the mistakes I ve made
He died for me the way I was
and He wants me to love the same
Chorus.
Can t we tear the fences down?
Can t we rip the labels off?
Can we share the common ground
instead of judging what is not?
Can t we love instead of hate?
Can t we trust instead of fear?
Can we stop fighting for a moment
and feel our common fear?
Is it us against them, wrong against right,
black against white, my kind your kind?
There comes a time to put the argument down
and have a party on the common ground!
Chorus.