Yeah   Believe it or not   What kept me alive   Is my dreams      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 OK 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   Lock me up now, it's OK to feel good      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   Well, that's kinda hard      But we still like to party and party 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      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   Lock me up now, it's okay to feel good      I'm a dreamer   It's okay to feel good, yeah, it's the truth   Ay, yo' 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 that would drown out   The tears from my brown eyes      Come on backstage, you see the screams   Ain't the screams from gunshot streams   In my dreams, these screams are from hot teens   And I'm barely thirteen, I pack a dirty   Old Russian firearm that shoots thirty      Just then I hear the bus engine   I'm transcending, I'm crowd surfing   I can't see the time burning   I'm not hurting with my mahogany pen   I'm on a tour with Mohammad and them      And we'd be overseas and not in these trees   Where my peeps stay alive like the Bee Gees   And the likes of JZ would save my steeze   Singing handily brought Hip Hop peace      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   Lock me up now, it's okay to feel good, I'm a dreamer      Sometimes we just like to have fun   Man, we like to forget all the fighting   All the guns and the tires burning      Back on the verse, imagine crack was in birth   Imagine the earth wasn't hurt, imagine no homeland alerts   Imagine no record locater   So I wouldn't have to get a criminal waiver      Imagine the peace wasn't in my briefs   Instead peace could stretch across the seas   So finally we could just rest and ease, no refugees      And you, well you could dress in a book   And I can 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      Yeah, and I feel good right now   I feel good right here, you feel good right now?   You 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   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   Lock me up now, 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   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   Lock me up now, it's okay to feel good      Yeah, we not down and out just because the times are hard   Yeah, shout out to the struggler's 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   I still know how to talk to a pretty girl,   Take it easy now, yeah