[Intro: Lupe Fiasco]
*yaawn* - Thanks,
Feels good wakin' up,
Get back... on my J.O.
ooohh,
And you will be going, cause I gotta go to work
It's coo...
[Verse #1: Lupe Fiasco]
I wipe the cool from my eye
Stationed in Antarctica, coldest nigga alive
Flow is Armageddon might smite crows/Cruise from the Sky
Before you drive you have to wipe locusts off your rides
But I'm warming up, oceans is on the rise
I be Ocean with 11 associates on my side
Colder than Chris Martin guitarin' - would you look at all these Spies?
But they can't see me, I took out their eyes
Replaced them with some me's, so all they see is he's
But I will never run, not even if they cry
See I can never fall, not even down their cheek
But I will always ball/bawl, let's see who the first to blink
And I don't need no passwords cause I don't need to cheat
But you can say your last words then you can rest in peace
I'm the hook after your last verse, I'm also like the beat
But I will turn it down so you can go to sleep
[Chorus: Lupe Fiasco]
You can go to sleep
Yes you can go to sleep
Said you can go to sleep (x2)
Good night, good night (x2)
(Real niggas up again)
(Phony niggas tuckin' in)
Now you can go to sleep
Yes you can go to sleep
Good night, good night (x2)
(Real niggas up again)
(Phony niggas tuckin' in)
Now you can go to sleep
Yes you can go to sleep
Now you can go to sleep (x2)
Good night, good night (x2)
Official niggas on they job and you know we gonna ball
Real niggas poppin off, phony niggas not at all
[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]
Insomniac since way back, see that's what I been like
Bacon, eggs and pancakes, eating that at midnight
Getting up and going hard, I don't need no Enzyte
Come across as very calm, mental state is Zen like
Always had a lot of heart, never been the tin type
Never will I drop a dime, never been the ten type
My girlfriend is very fine, yeah she is a ten, right?
Mink is draggin'/dragon on the flow/floor, fire in my windpipe
You should come and clean up after riots that I incite
Things got off the handle, left behind a landfill
Traffic at a standstill, stadium is fan-filled
Fill this bitch up with fans, you still won't blow my candle...out
My can do spirit's in the house, and it's possessing your possessions,
Good night, good night (x2)
Official niggas on they job and you know we gonna ball
Real niggas poppin off, phony niggas not at all
[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]
Insomniac since way back, see that's what I been like
Bacon, eggs and pancakes, eating that at midnight
Getting up and going hard, I don't need no Enzyte
Come across as very calm, mental state is Zen like
Always had a lot of heart, never been the tin type
Never will I drop a dime, never been the ten type
My girlfriend is very fine, yeah she is a ten, right?
Mink is draggin'/dragon on the flow/floor, fire in my windpipe
You should come and clean up after riots that I incite
Things got off the handle, left behind a landfill
Traffic at a standstill, stadium is fan-filled
Fill this bitch up with fans, you still won't blow my candle...out
My can do spirit's in the house, and it's possessing your possessions,
did you hear it by the couch?
Boogeyman under your bed but not in your closet, cause I'm not a...
Boogeyman under your bed but not in your closet, cause I'm not a...
Won't drill no door hole, I won't make a peep, so...
[Chorus: Lupe Fiasco]
You can go to sleep
Yes you can go to sleep
[Chorus: Lupe Fiasco]
You can go to sleep
Yes you can go to sleep
Now you can go to sleep
Said you can go to sleep
Good night, good night (x2)
(Real niggas up again)
(Phony niggas tuckin' in)
Now you can go to sleep
Yes you can go to sleep
Good night, good night (x2)
(Real niggas up again)
(Phony niggas tuckin' in)
Now you can go to sleep
Yes you can go to sleep
Now you can go to sleep (x2)
Good night, good night (x2)
Official niggas on they job and you know we gonna ball
Real niggas poppin off, phony niggas not at all
[Verse 3: Lupe Fiasco]
I wipe the cold/coal from my eye, then put it in my stove and hope that my dough rise
And that my clothes dry, but I am so high, I'm sitting on the storm that I got soaked by
Now you can come close so, you can get warm
But you get no pie, but you can sell 'em for him so, here's your bow tie
Now get ready to fall, 'cause humans don't fly, the boy in the balloon
See I didn't go high/hide, and I'm coming back to float/flow again
Closed out all that opium, but I had to O-P-EN
They said they need a hero in (heroin) it, so I'm back to dope again
Pull up in that old school Flintstone drop on rolling pins
Time is all behind me, this make me feel old again
Grandma's all around me, I can feel her soul within'
Hold my daddy over him
I woke the rooster's, woke the hen's
Everything's cashmere, count the sheep that make 'em..
[Chorus: Lupe Fiasco]
(You can) go to sleep
Good night, good night (x2)
Official niggas on they job and you know we gonna ball
Real niggas poppin off, phony niggas not at all
[Verse 3: Lupe Fiasco]
I wipe the cold/coal from my eye, then put it in my stove and hope that my dough rise
And that my clothes dry, but I am so high, I'm sitting on the storm that I got soaked by
Now you can come close so, you can get warm
But you get no pie, but you can sell 'em for him so, here's your bow tie
Now get ready to fall, 'cause humans don't fly, the boy in the balloon
See I didn't go high/hide, and I'm coming back to float/flow again
Closed out all that opium, but I had to O-P-EN
They said they need a hero in (heroin) it, so I'm back to dope again
Pull up in that old school Flintstone drop on rolling pins
Time is all behind me, this make me feel old again
Grandma's all around me, I can feel her soul within'
Hold my daddy over him
I woke the rooster's, woke the hen's
Everything's cashmere, count the sheep that make 'em..
[Chorus: Lupe Fiasco]
(You can) go to sleep
Yes you can go to sleep
Now you can go to sleep
Now you can go to sleep
Yes you can go to sleep
(Go to sleep, it's okay!)
Good night, good night (x2)
(Real niggas up again)
(Phony niggas tuckin' in)
Official niggas on they job and you know we gonna ball
Real niggas poppin off, phony niggas not at all
(Fades)
(Go to sleep, it's okay!)
Good night, good night (x2)
(Real niggas up again)
(Phony niggas tuckin' in)
Yes you can go to sleep (x2)
Now you can go to sleep
Yes you can go to sleep
Good night, good night (x2)Official niggas on they job and you know we gonna ball
Real niggas poppin off, phony niggas not at all
(Fades)
it sounds like he says...
ReplyDelete"offcial niggas on they job AND YOU KNOW WE GOING HARD"
- Flow is Armageddon much like crows/Cruise from the Sky: Flow is Armageddon might smite crows from the sky
ReplyDelete- Official niggas on they job and you know --- nod: Official niggas on they job and you know we gonna ball
- Replace with some me's: Replaced them with some me's
Doesn't sound like ball at all though.
ReplyDeleteI thought it sounded blatantly like ball. lol
ReplyDeletedoesnt he say, open them instead of OP
ReplyDeleteI thin he says" Come across as very calm, mental state is zen like.."
ReplyDeleteAlso "And they say they need a hero &(heroin)so im back to dope again"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9v6FNownw4
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ReplyDeletewhat's with that bonjour dojo line? doesn't make sense to me but I also don't hear anything else out of it, sounds like another language
ReplyDeleteI wipe the coal from my eye, then put it in my stove and hope that my dough rise
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I wipe the cold from my eye, then put it in my stove and hope that my dough rise...i think
-lincons draggin/dragon on the flo
ReplyDelete-replaced them wit some D's (some of these) so all they see is E's (ease)
The only thing I don't like is that new piano that has been added on it. Go listen to the snippet I re-mastered for Lupe and see what I mean. Props though to 1500 or Nothin' for making a dope track originally.
ReplyDeleteBefore you drive you have to wipe locusts(Notices) off your rides.
ReplyDeleteAs in eye crust in your eyes but for a car you'd have to wipe the notices off your eyes.
i get his direction for the first 2 verse's but that last verse where he says:
ReplyDelete"I wipe the cold/coal from my eye, then put it in my stove and hope that my dough rise And that my clothes dry, but I am so high, I'm sitting on the storm that I got soaked by Now you can come close so, you can get warm But you get no pie, but you can sell 'em for him so, here's your bow tie"
he loses me on that part? is he talking about drug dealing? or metaphorically being above the poverty line? or... i can interpret that verse a million and one ways. just wanted to ask u guys what u thought that last verse was about?
Boogeyman under here but not in your closet, cause I'm not a...
ReplyDeleteWon't drill no door hole, I won't make a peep, so...
is he saying what i think hes saying??
at ^^
ReplyDeletehmm, could be he's saying don't take that as him being perverted, he's just going to work on the stuff dreams are made of.. (a monster at) making great art, music, etc..
@Lyricspure
his sweat and tears, the work he's put in, has taken him this far, hope it keeps giving him the means to stay fresh (clothes aficionado that he is)
this far meaning the art of the music making, that he fell in love with, has taken him to the top in a sense, the storm meaning the nature, the beast, the power that this music thing still has..
pie, bow tie..
wearing a bow tie for record label, presenting yourself a certain way to sell more records,
pie meaning success that is a level of respect amongst fans/other artists/the heritage of the game..
Lupe has this going for him quite well, without selling out..
other people don't go as hard as he tries to, in this respect..
and his calling card is the dope stuff, the stuff that he prides himself in, the level he been at with
the lyrics!
still is hard on himself, though, seeks inspiration and reminders of his cause from lives led by family..
by the way last line
so dope!
"everything's cashmere, count the sheep so.."
GO TO SLEEP!
Every time I hear the pie n bowtie line, I'm thinking of the guys selling bean pies and farakhan newspapers while wearing suits n bowties.
ReplyDeletewhat does 'I'm sitting on the storm that I got soaked by' exactly mean?
ReplyDeletei think it means that he rose above the all the adversary and naysayers (storm) that he was under before.
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