Tell you something about poetry, it refuses
It breaks and asks to be broken
The broken pieces form a question mark
And this is the revolutionary poem, exclamation point
The radical belief that broken is beautiful
That breaking is essential
That revolution is built from wreckage
Exclamation comes from asking
The question is, "What use do we have for time not measured by the rivers dancing beneath us?
In us? Befor? us?"
We pray like this, majestic, ?lectric
We slide, step, dip, shake, every room a dance floor
Let all my skin kin in, let sunshine in
Let me kiss on my loves chosen and fought for
Come, make you a plate
Pour some out
Return and get it
This is the thing about poems
They want to live
They remind us when we forget how to love and be love
How even leaves have veins with stories to tell
And we are the stories
We are the radical and hopeful
We are the revolutionary poem, exclamation point
You don't have to go home, but this is only the start
The good part is what comes next
The lyrics OUTRO (EXCLAMATION POINT) of COMMON is also present in the album A beautiful revolution, pt. 2 (2021)
Common, all'anagrafe Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr., è un rapper, produttore discografico, attore e scrittore statunitense nato a Chicago nel 1972. Inizialmente noto come Common Sense, ha debuttato nel 1994 con l'album "Resurrection", che lo ha consacrato come uno dei rapper più talentuosi della scena hip-hop contemporanea. Common è noto per le sue rime introspettive e poetiche, spesso incentrate su temi sociali e politici. Ha collaborato con artisti di fama mondiale come Kanye West, John Legend e Erykah Badu. Nel 2006 ha vinto il suo primo Grammy Award per la canzone "The People", tratta dall'album "Be". Tra i suoi album più importanti ricordiamo "Like Water for Chocolate" (2000), "Electric Circus" (2002) e "Finding Forever" (2007). Oltre alla musica, Common ha recitato in diversi film, tra cui "Selma", per il quale ha vinto un Oscar nel 2015.
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