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[Intro: Kanye West]
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Yeah, 9:08 L.A. time
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Back in the lab and shit
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[Verse 1: Kanye West]
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My wife said, I can't say no to nobody
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And at this rate we gon' both die broke
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Got friends that ask me for money knowin' I'm in debt
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And like my wife said, I still didn't say no
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People tryna say I'm goin' crazy on Twitter
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My friends' best advice was to stay low
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I guess it's hard to decipher all of the bills
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Especially when you got family members on payroll
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The media said it was outlandish spendin'
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The media said he's way out of control
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I just feel like I'm the only one not pretendin'
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I'm not out of control, I'm just not in their control
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I know I'm the most influential
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That TIME cover was just confirmation
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This generation's closest thing to Einstein
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So don't worry about me, I'm fine
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I can see a thousand years from now in real life
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Skate on the paradigm and shift it when I feel like
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Grow conventional thought, don't need to question
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I know it's antiquated so sometimes I get aggressive
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Thank God For Jay Electra, he down with the mission
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Did it with with no permission, on our own conditions
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Most Blacks with money have been beaten to submission
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Yeezy with the big house, did it way different
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Never listen to Hollywood producers
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Don't stare at money too long, it's Medusa
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The ultimate Gemini has survived
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I wasn't supposed to make it past 25
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[Hook: Sampha]
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And you're looking at the church in the night sky
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Wondering whether God's gonna say hi
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I've been looking in the church in the night sky
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And you wonder where is God in your nightlife
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Yeah, you're looking at the church in the night sky
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(Father, father, father...)
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Wondering whether God's gonna say hi
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The night sky, I feel like I'm home, baby
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[Verse 2: Kanye West]
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I've been waking the spirits of millions more to come
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A million illegally downloaded my truth over the drums
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I believe in the children, listen to the kids, bro
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If the phone ringing, go and get your kids ho
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Brother Don Muhammad told the minister about the presentation
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He sat back and smiled
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Black on black lies is worse than black on black crime
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The jews share they truth on how to make a dime
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Most black men couldn't balance a checkbook
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But buy a new car, talkin' 'bout "how my neck look?"
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Well it all looks great
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Four hundred years later, we buyin' our own chains
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The light is before us brothers, so the devil working hard
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Real family stick together and see through the mirage
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The smokescreens, perceptions of false reality
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Who the real owner if your boss gets a salary?
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I am one with the people
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I am one with the people (real)
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I've been workin' from enlightened man's dream
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Checkin' Instagram comments to crowdsource my self esteem
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Let me not say too much or do too much
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Cause if I'm up way too much, I'm out of touch
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I'm praying a out-of-body experience will happen
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So the people can see my light, now it's not just rapping
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God, I have humbled myself before the court
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Drop my ego and confidence was my last resort
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I know, I know he got a plan, I know I'm on your beams
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One set of footsteps, you was carryin' me
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When I turned on the news and they was buryin' me
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One set of footsteps, you was carryin' me
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When I was negotiating with Apple, it was Larry and me
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Told Tim Cook to call me, I was scary to see
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I would've took a hundred million and gave twenty to Hov
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I heard it's the way they did it when we only had the stove
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But it's better that I stayed at home with my folks
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Cause if Jay a billionaire then I'mma never go broke
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Only thing I ask is next time I'm on stage we all go
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We all go
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Not just by myself, looking for niggas like where's Waldo
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She got the same shoes as my wife but she copped 'em at Aldo
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Modern day MJ with an off the wall flow
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[Bridge: Sampha]
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My life walk all over me
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Walk all over me
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I'm delivering everything I've ever sent to you, bring
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Fly, fly, fly overseas
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Fly overseas
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Oh, anywhere, everything but in between
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[Hook: Sampha]
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Yeah, you're looking in the church in the night sky
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Wondering whether God's gonna say hi
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Oh, you're looking in the church in the night sky
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And you wonder where is God in your nightlife
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Yeah, you're looking in the church in the night sky
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Wondering whether God's gonna say hi
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[Outro: Sampha]
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Please face me when I speak
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Please say to me something before you leave
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You've been treating me like I'm invisible
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Now I'm visible to you, oh, invisible truths
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They say I can't quite understand what you say
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Understand, understand
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Understand I'm standing on the oath
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With my hand on the book
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Tell the truth, nothing but the whole truth
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And you always give me half of you, half of you
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Take half a shot, watching all my heart of gold
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Make you feel like something from a film, oh
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[Hook: Sampha]
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Yeah, you're looking in the church in the night sky
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Wondering whether God's gonna say hi
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I've been looking in the church in the night sky
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And you wonder where is God in your nightlife
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Yeah, you're looking in the church in the night sky
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(Father, father, father...)
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Wondering whether God's gonna say hi
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I've been looking in the church in the night sky
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And you wonder where is God in your nightlife
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(Father, father, father...)
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