C                       G
We are a common people, each of us a fallen man

Am                                    F
Let's find that common ground and stop drawing lines in the sand

C                       G
We are a common people, living in a common life

Am                                      F
There are ties that bind us all when we look beyond the lines

Am      G             F
Common people you and I

Am      G             F
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

           C               G
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

    C               G
and feel our common fear?

Am                     G
Is it us against them, wrong against right,

F
black against white, my kind your kind?

Am                            G
There comes a time to put the argument down

           F
and have a party on the common ground!