[Intro:]

Uh, yeah

Believe it or not

What kept me alive

Is my Dreams

[Hook:]

I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one

Got problems but we love to have fun

This is our world, from here to your hood

We alive man, it's okay to feel good!

I'm a dreamer, but I ain't the only one

Got problems but we love to have fun

This is our world, from here to your hood

Lively up now, it's okay to feel good!

I'm a dreamer

[Verse 1: K'naan]

I got a friend named Flow

Who got a friend named Blow

With a finger named Clap

That'll leave you on the side like a Kangol hat

He ain't have no choice he was born this way

These streets pull your number like a phone display

And you gotta be defensive with your life

You gotta be like Bush and take pre-emptive strikes

And "The boys from the hood are always hard"

Let alone in Mogadishu it's a mastered art

If you bring the world hoods to a seminar

We from the only place worse than Kandahar

Man that's kinda hard

But we still like to party and Hardy-hard

Something good happens we say "Mashallah"

Something bad happens, "Que sera, sera"

I close my eyes and all I can see, is you dancing with me

[Hook]

[Verse 2: K'naan]

It's okay to feel good

It's the truth!

Ayyo, and check it out

What would it take for a boy about my age

To hear cheers in his head upon that stage?

And the cheers they would drown out the tears from my brown eyes

C'mon backstage

You see the screams ain't the screams from gunshot screams

In my dreams these screams are from hot teens

And I'm barely thirteen and pack a dirty

Ol' Russian firearm that shoots thirty

Just then I hear the bus engine

I'm transcendin'

I'm crowd surfin'

I can't see the time burnin'

I'm not hurtin'

With my mahogany pen

"I'm on a world Tour, with Muhammed and them!"

And we be overseas, and not in these streets

Where my peeps stay alive, like the Beegees

And the likes of Jay-Z would say my steez

Say he handily brought, hip hop peace

[Hook]

Sometimes we just like to have fun, man we like to forget

All the fighting, all the guns and the tires burnin

[Verse 3: K'naan]

Back on the verse

Imagine crack wasn't birthed

Imagine that Earth wasn't hurt

Imagine no Homeland alerts

Imagine no record locator

So I wouldn't have to get a criminal waiver

Imagine the piece wasn't in my briefs

Instead peace could stretch across the seas

So finally we could we could just rest in the East

No Refugees

And you, well you could dress in a book

And I could read your body with less than a look

I got a dream girl in my mind, that's the hook

An intellectual, sexual and still can cook

And I feel good right now...I feel good right here

You feel good right now? You feel good??

[Hook 2x]

[K'Naan speaking to end]

We not down and out...just because the times are hard

Uh-uh...uh-uh...yeah...shout out to the strugglers

In my country...the hardest place on Earth right now

But still...I still know how to get down

I still know how to vibe out

Still know how to talk to a pretty girl

Take it easy now...YEAH