We the Common (For Valerie Bolden)

[Verse]
If I burn my youth, would it come to me?
Oh, love, won’t you bite my eye?
I miss the sweet garden, man
Baffle a skeleton dry
All they wanted was a villain, a villain
And all they had was me
All they wanted was a villain, a villain
So then they just took me

[Chorus]
Hold my county line, get down on my city floor
I will suffer no humans, that’d been my habit before
Oh, and how the earth did shake
And tumble and tremble, for what the people do take
And I want in, all over your mind
‘Cause oh, how we, the common, do cry

[Verse]
Glory do you go from me?
When I wait for you faithfully
And will they take my life entire?
I love my girl, will you remind her?
Oh how we, the common do cry

[Bridge]
We die, we die, we die until we try
We die, we die, we die until we try
Well, I could be yours and you could be mine
Well, I could be yours and you would be mine

[Verse]
If I burn my youth, would it come to me?
Oh, Love, won’t you bite my eye?
I miss the sweet garden, man
Baffle a skeleton dry
All they wanted was a villain, a villain
And all they had was me
All they wanted was a villain, a villain
So then they just took me

[Chorus]
Hold my county line, get down on my city floor
I will suffer no humans, that’d been my habit before
Oh, how we, the common, must cry
And oh, how we, the common must cry!