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Common People lyrics

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 made
I know he takes me where I am
He sees a friend not a crusade

Lord help me live like this
Lord help me love like this

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

I see a brother o 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 made
He died for me the way I was
and He wants me to love the same

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 tears
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
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