Filled the Frame

Intro

Yeah

Mm-hmm

Uh

Verse 1

I drew the plans on a napkin

Blueprints crooked but the vision stood straight

Every brick a promise I made to my block

Bought the corner store back from the bank

My uncle ran numbers out the back for years

Now the kids buy snow cones where he used to slang

Same concrete different chapter

I ain't erase him I just carried the name

Chorus

It takes people

To make a dream a reality

It takes people

Not paint not plans not machinery

I built the frame

You filled the frame

It takes people

That's the whole thing

Verse 2

Grandma cooked for the crew every Sunday

Cornbread and collard greens fed the whole street

She said a house ain't nothing but wood

Till somebody laughs in the kitchen and eats

So I hung her portrait in the lobby

Brass frame beside the velvet rope

Every tenant that walks in nods at her

That's how you keep a matriarch close

Chorus

It takes people

To make a dream a reality

It takes people

Not paint not plans not machinery

I built the frame

You filled the frame

It takes people

That's the whole thing

Bridge

Tables empty rooms hollow

A building ain't got no soul alone

Hands hands hands is the mortar

Everything else is just stone

Everything else is just stone

Verse 3

Now the block cook out on the rooftop

Bounce and the horns playing low

Tenor moaning over my memory

Alto answering slow

I could sell it tomorrow for triple

Keep the check keep the debt keep the crown

But a man with a vision and nobody in it

Is the loneliest man in the town

Chorus

It takes people

To make a dream a reality

It takes people

Not paint not plans not machinery

I built the frame

You filled the frame

It takes people

That's the whole thing

Outro

Yeah

It takes people

That's the whole thing