Chorus:
CG
We are a common people, each of us a fallen man
AmF
Let's find that common ground and stop drawing lines in the sand
CG
We are a common people, living in a common life
AmF
There are ties that bind us all when we look beyond the lines
AmGF
Common people you and I
AmGF
Common people you and I
C
I see a blind man on the street
G
He doesn't know what I look like
Am
So he can't judge the man I am
F
Except by what he sees inside
C
I see a child on the street
G
He doesn't know the mistakes I've made
Am
I know he takes me where I am
F
He sees a friend not a crusade
Chorus:
C
I see a brother on the other side
G
of my crusade, my holy fight
Am
I think I know where I went wrong
F
when I gave up love to be proved right
C
I saw a man die on a cross
G
He forgot the mistakes I've made
Am
He died for me the way I was
F
and He wants me to love the same
Chorus:
Dm
Can't we tear the fences down?
Am
Can't we rip the labels off?
F
Can we share the common ground
CG
instead of judging what is not?
Dm
Can't we love instead of hate?
Am
Can't we trust instead of fear?
F
Can we stop fighting for a moment
CG
and feel our common fear?
AmG
Is it us against them, wrong against right,
F
black against white, my kind your kind?
AmG
There comes a time to put the argument down
F
and have a party on the common ground!
Chorus:
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