Regular People Lyrics
Put your hands up if you love your body
Put your hands up if you love your mommy
Put your hands up if you love your skin
What you wear are the clothes you're in
Do you ever feel there's no way out
Raise 'em if somebody let you down
This one here is for the kind and the peaceful
Put your hands up for the regular people
[Chorus: Mahalia]
I don't see nothing wrong with being regular people
Stay right here where we belong with the regular people
We don't have to sing that song just to feel like we're equal
No, we don't have to roll that way, no
Play that game, no, no
We're just being regular people
[Verse 2: Hamzaa]
Expectations, they can lead to astray from
The way that we are
Need patience, no need for chasin'
There's always tomorrow
I call things just how I see 'em
No filter, no alter ego
No big revelations, I'ma take a break, uh (Yeah, yeah)
'Cause where and what and who we are is good enough
And we're just regular people
I don't see nothing wrong with being regular people
Stay right here where we belong with the regular people
We don't have to sing that song just to feel like we're equal
No, we don't have to roll that way, no
Play that game, no
We're just being regular, regular people
[Verse 3: Lucky Daye]
Laid back, chillin' with the crew (Yeah)
None of us got nothin' left to prove
I'm working on me, true
I can't play by the rules
I know you been lookin' for somethin' valuable
Baby, I value us, ayy
I wish that you could see it
Everything you're worth, can't put a price on us, yes
Never mind what they say, do
Can't live my life like they say, so
See, some let us switch sides, but inside they be dyin'
I'm looking for happy, you tryna succeed
You think I'm naive, you tryna deceive
If I don't, who gon' love me?
We ain't gotta do it for nobody
[Bridge: Mahalia & Lucky Daye]
Put your hands up if you still believe
Put your hands up if you're still with me
This one here is for the odd and the equal (Odd)
So put your hands up for the regular people (Oh, regular people)
I don't see nothing wrong with being regular people (Regular people)
Stay right here where we belong with the regular people (Regular people)
We don't have to sing that song just to feel like we're equal (Oh, feel like)
No, we don't have to roll that way, no
Play that game, no
We're just being regular people
About
In “Regular People,” the sixth song off Love and Compromise, Mahalia joins forces with British singer-songwriter Hamzaa and American Grammy Award-winning R&B artist Lucky Daye. Mahalia’s goal with the featuring artists was to combine two completely different styled people to contribute their mentalities of being a “regular person.”
The song’s inspirational theme of inclusivity and humility was inspired by a comment that a young girl made to Mahalia as she was sitting on her tour bus. Mahalia explained in a track-by-track breakdown that the girl asked Mahalia whether she was famous, or if she was just simply a normal person like her.
Q&A
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For a long time, I was trying to work out how to put this song together. In my head, I wanted then different artists to feature on it. It didn’t turn out that way. It turned out being really difficult to sort out. I brought on Hamzaa, who I love. I’ve got two completely different artists [the other is American singer Lucky Daye] from two different countries to try this.
- 1.Hide Out
- 3.Simmer
- 4.Good Company
- 5.What Am I?
- 6.Regular People
- 7.Karma
- 8.He’s Mine
- 9.What You Did
- 10.Do Not Disturb
- 11.Richie
- 12.Consistency
- 13.Square 1
