[Featuring Cee-Lo]. Common:. After bein' 25 you know just trying to survive in the world. Bout to have a little boy or baby girl. Who knows?. Anyway just when you start gettin that little age and experience to. you. You start thinkin about stuff...tryin to make the right moves. So bust it out this is what I was thinkin check it. Yo the education of the Lon-chicka-Lonnie Lynn. Began began with time. Bein my bloodline is one with the divine. In time brotha you will discover the light. Some say that God is Black and the Devil's White. Well the Devil is wrong and God is what's right. I fight with myself in the ring of doubt and fear. The rain ain't gone but I can still see clear. As a child given religion with no answer to why. Just told believe in Jesus cuz for me he did die. Curiosity killed the catechism. Understanding and wisdom became the rhythm that I played to. And became a slave to master self. A rich man is one with knowledge happiness and his health. My mind had dealt with the books of Zen Tao the lessons. Koran and the Bible to me they all vital. And got truth within 'em gotta read them boys. You just can't skim 'em different branches of belief. But one root that stem 'em but people of the venom try to trim 'em. And use religion as an emblem. When it should be a natural way of life. Who am I or they to say to whom you pray ain't right. That's who got you doin right and got you this far. Whether you say "in Jesus name" or Hum do Allah. Long as you know it's a bein' that's supreme to you. You let that show towards others in the things you do. Cuz when the trumpets blowin 24 elders surround the throne. Only 144000 gon get home. Only 144000 gon get home. Only 144000 gon get it baby. Chorus Cee-Lo:. I've lived and I've learned. I have taken and I've earned. I have laughed I've cried. I have failed and I have tried. Sunshine pouring rain. found joy through all my pain. I just wanna be happy with being me. Cee-Lo:. Let me voice my concern. So many of my fellow brothers have given themselves a title. That their actions didn't earn. Our ignorance is in the same breath as our innocence. Subconciously seeking to find an impressionable mind to convince. I've finally come to the realization why Black people in the worse. place. Cuz it's hard to correct yourself when you don't know. Who you are in the first place. So I try to find the clue in you. But evidently White folks know more Black history than we do. Why're we bein' lied to? I ain't know our history was purposely hidden. Damn somethin' in me wanna know who I am. So I began my search my journey started in church. It gave my heartache relief when I started to understand belief. Hustlin was like a gift spent my share of time in the streets. Taught me survival from this evil I'm just gonna have to deal with. And I felt like a fool when I tried to learn it in school. It almost seemed like a rehearsal when the only. Science and math are universal. Takin elder advice read the Bible the Koran. Searched scrolls from the Hebrew Israelites. Hold on this ain't right Jesus wasn't White. Some leads were granted with insight. and it's all in the plan but it took me some time to overstand. He still created with the imperfection of man. So with followin' I disagree. By no means have I forgotten or forgiven what's been done to me but. I do know the Devil ain't no White man the Devil's a spiritual mind. That's color blind there's evil White folk and evil niggas. You gon surely find there's no positivity without negativity. But one side you gonna have to choose. Any chance to speak I refuse to misuse. So how can you call yourself God when you let a worldly possession. become an obsession and the way you write your rhymes and. Can't follow your lesson. If a seed's sown you make sure it's known you make sure it's grown. If you God then save your own don't mentally enslave your own. If you God then save your own don't mentally enslave your own. If you God then save your own don't mentally enslave your own. Well I've lived and I've learned. I've taken and I've earned. I have laughed I have cried. I failed and I have tried. Sunshine pourin rain. I found joy through my pain. Just wanna be happy...bein me. Bein me.