[Intro: Common]

For the world, world, world, world, world, world

Uh

My name is Common, No I.D, hah

Uh

[Verse 1: Common]

Ferrari Testas, Armani dressers

Exquisite thick bitches that body bless us

Rest assured, we getting festive in Miami now

Told my nigga Ye, I'm 'bout to win the Grammys now

Getting Johnny Cash, old white folks know me now

Stand close to the mic like I'm Kobe now

We celebrate with shots of the hate because we got love

It's the pop life, a lot of faces pop up

Known to tear the club and the block up

Going through the airport with more lye than an opera

Knew crooks who move books like Harry Potter

Get cleaners to get it cleaner

A legend like John, Lennon, I'm a dreamer

Tried to fuck the world, she only let me finger

Mind trips to Medina to visit the redeemer

A hero, I'll drop out like Hiroshima

Off sangria with two broads at La Esquina

Still opening roads for Omoye and Amina

I'm a dreamer

[Chorus: Common & James Fauntleroy]

(Dreamer)

It's for the world, world, world, world, world

Yeah (Dreamer)

Dream on

Haha, yeah (I've seen, ohh)

[Verse 2: Common]

We take, uh, we make, uh, paper

And build skyscrapers

Walking on water, building my faith up

Niggas with no heart, I'm the pacemaker

Get the beat from No-I, feel the pulse of the Chi

Survival of the fit with hope in they eye

Taking notes from the sky to fly above understanding

They notes from the most high, so I gotta land them

Career ain't random, make anthems, streets chant them

Rock roles like a phantom

Mad hoes like they throwing tantrums

I tell them I need space like Richard Branson

Dancing, with wolves and stars getting full at bars

And then pass out like a pamphlet

Never taking Grants for granted

It's Common, I'm high above standard

Fly nigga, keep my feet planted

To rock the planet, I don't stop for panic

Maybe I'm a hopeless Hip-Hop romantic

I'm a dreamer

[Chorus: Common & James Fauntleroy]

(Dreamer)

For the world, world, world, world, world (Woop, woop-woop-woop, woop)

Yeah (Dreamer)

(I've seen, ohh) Yo, this rhyme is—

[Verse 3: Common]

He introduced me, I stepped to the podium

Said peace, give thanks to the holy one

Put my water up, thought about my daughter for a second

The youth, the living resurrection

Reflections of the sun glaring through the window

Now the audience staring at my mental

Feeling like the world, the world is at my fingers

'Bout to speak to an auditorium full of dreamers

Kinda took me back to when I first had a dream

To be like the king that sang Billie Jean

Now it's gold records, and I'm on silver screens

At the mountaintop, you still gotta dream

To the dreamers

[Chorus: Common & James Fauntleroy]

(Dreamer)

Yeah

(Dreamer)

To the dreamer, dreamer, dreamers

Yeah, it faded down, we gon'—

(I've seen, ohh)

We gon' bring it back

Bring that beat back, bring that beat back

[Interlude: Common]

It's for the world, world, world, world

Keep on

Chka-d-ah, d-ah

For the world, world, world

Keep on, chika-digga-d-uh

Ayo

Ayo

Y'all to dance to us, chka

Keep on

[Bridge: James Fauntleroy]

If I dream you're here

And you dream I'm there

We'll be nowhere near

You should just come here

If I wake you up

Only difference is

You can live the dream

Just believe in it

Ooh-ooh-ooh

[Spoken Outro: Maya Angelou & James Fauntleroy]

Once you find your shoulders dropping

And your speech gets slow and hazy

You'd better change your way of being

Before you found your brain got lazy

You can build a better future when you join the winning team

If you desire a bright tomorrow, you must build a brighter dream

Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you

Know that history holds more than it seems

We are here alive today because our ancestors dared to dream

From Africa they lay in the bilge of slave ships

And stood half naked on auction blocks

From eastern-Europe they crowded in vessels overloaded with immigrants

And were mis-named on Ellis island

From South America and Mexico, from Asia, they labored in sweat shops

From all over the world, they came to America

Many shivering in rags, and still they dared to dream

Let us dream for today and for tomorrow

Let us dare to dream (Ooh-ooh-ooh)