Aloe Blacc - Cali Dreaming - Текст песни

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