[Chorus: Jill Scott]
   Can you speak your words of bedtime
   I was just saying to myself the other day
   Most of believing the magician
   But you're bewitching
   Because of this I must say
   I (I)
   I (oh I)
   I
   Appreciate what you give to me
   Yeah (I)
   I (oh I)
   I
   Appreciate what you give to me
  
   [Verse 1: Common]
   People say I got soul look at all the records I hold
   The lives I've affected, connect and control
   With me in your basement, your mama got blown
   I provide the vibe to keep the strippers on poles
   Through me the black experience is glorious told
   From a school that's old bold, so I rock gold
   And platinum, so cats I hold notes and cash for them
   On streets I rap for them, in ghettos I blast for them
   Mash with them, at the party and all
   Peep the universal language that's embodying all
   Put the Billie Holiday, Bob Marley in y'all
   Y'all feel most high when I be in y'all
   System, with the rhythm I up jump the boogie
   Shame I rely on record labels to push me
   Since the bush, I been y'all way to escape
   Through eight-tracks wax CDs and tapes
   I am music
  
   [Chorus]
  
   [Verse 2]
   You can feel me all over alive, I help culture survive, I opened the eyes of many
   Styles y'all wrote in the skies, with your lows and highs, open your mind to hear me
   In the streets I beat cops and obsolete
   On every station it's hot you can't stop my heat
   I taught J and Dre how to rock the beat
   On what's going on today yo, I gots to speak
   I take the stand, yo you could feel me bam
   Whether in Larry Graham or Steely Dan
   Live I be killing it man
   For how long I survived yo I'm realer than man
   Got a soft side but I'm still a man
   For me women cry and children dance, I'm trying to eat
   I could'a got a mil and ran
   But like Sly for the fam still I stand
   I am music
  
   [Chorus]
  
   [Verse 3]
   I been here since the beginning
   Beginning of time yo beginning of time
   Deep in the mind of the ancient ones
   Everybody love me like they do the sun
   I shine at times yo at times I'm dark
   You can't categorize me, my mind's a art
   Inside my heart, it ain't about climbing charts
   I'm the one you roll with when your ride is smart
   The change that came, the change that comes
   I change with chords and I kick it with drums
   Get blow with horns and did it on the one
   Riffed for guitars, for the Lord I sung
   Spun around the world at parties and weddings
   Wherever I go I create the setting
   You know me from lessons or your pops collections
   Whether whole or half stepping I'm a blessing
   Yo I am music
  
   [Chorus 2X]