Aloe Blacc - Cali Dreaming lyrics

Wanna live my dreams

This is the last chance to make it, I gotta do something

With my life today

‘Cause I been doing this music thing for so long it seems that

Something’s gotta give

If I’ma stay on this long road to success

With the music I play

So I just gotta be strong and keep moving on with it

I’m not just a dreamer, I’m an intellectual coal mine

With refined rhymes like diamonds that shine

On the daily I grind, grit my teeth and push mountains full of words

With a pen to make you see clearly my troubles

All of my trifles the pressures that try to stifle

If life was holding a rifle to my head, my last thoughts would be

Simply to let my music reach to every country

Where scholars will translate it on scrolls and archive it

Where students in the classrooms of history relive it

Relive it, Because I write the words and I give it away

After it leaves my hand to the ink on the papyrus

And after I been on the stage and let the lyric fathom bust

It all belongs to y’all, that’s all end of story on it

Dropping like a bomb on the planet it’s the verbal atomic

Aloe Blacc remember me as enemy or friend

However you want, it doesn’t really matter in the end

They say it’s gonna stop

Got people telling me I’m wasting my time and that

Hip Hop’s going away

I don’t believe it though all my life I seen it grow so I

Don’t believe a word

That I be hearing from all the haters and perpetrators

So everything they say

Is just a bucket lies to get me out the way

This is my life’s work, my contribution as a public speaker

With knowledge to share and thoughts to digest

One of the freshest in the land of the west

While most niggaz measure success with the ice on they chest

I measure it with message and who spit it the best

Follow the quest like I’m the last man searching for a companion

Because when I’m dead and gone my books will still be standing

From my arial approach landing, seeing it all

Still waiting for the so-called stars to fall

Out of the polluted skies full of California dreams

People running at full speed and running out of the steam

A sparkling gleam in the eye of hopeful brothas wanting to eat

More than just the regular lunch meat, we trying to feast

On the fruits of the earth and give generous

But really men are just animals and like cannibals we been in lust

To see another man hit the dust (dust, dust)

Can’t nobody tell me what to do,

‘cause I am gonna do what I want to do

This is just my way of life and

I am gonna live it for me not you