Lupe Fiasco - LightWork

So, what are you going to stand for?
Dreads in the sky, eye in eye
2 new Vans on a ???
Take that back, make that 2 new shoes on a van floor
Me and my band out on that road
On a never-back-down-from-a-stance tour
Yeah, touch more souls than a dancefloor
While they, touch less floors than a hand or
Ceiling fan, or wait, let me tell ya slower
Lift my fans up to the ceiling
And you’ll never touch the floor
Now if Noah need a rower, I’ll be there with my oar
Til we get back to the shore
Dad made me a soldier, GI Joe to these Cobras
Tryna FBI my panther, CIA my sankofa
Infiltrate my carter, illuminate my culture
While they watching through that buckle
But I stay up on my hustle
Turn that belt back on theyself
Now I watch them scream for help
Like Africa need aid, or black women as maids
Uncover undercovers turn those maids to Bubba's mothers
Take the hero out the Nino, keep it real as trouble trouble huh?
Or maybe cartoon Martin on the Boondocks
Flip the script on chicks who think they shit smell like perfume shops
Help them girls find beauty without a magazine or movie
She Delilah with them 45s or Keisha with that Uzi
Now I know that’s contradiction, wants and needs in competition
But it’s hard to stay on point with such extremes in opposition
While we waiting on that compromise, proceed with that conscious eye
New gang alert: hashtag #occupy
Rep it til the death of me, FnF what’s left in me
All my hate is for the fake, recipes for wrestling
Only time I wrestle’s when I’m wrestling with settling
Only way I settle if we wrestle over everything
I know that that don’t mix like ecstasy and ketamine
Funny how I’m only sick if you never catch a thing
Argue with your friends over what really the record means
Back and forth about it’s course, with professor’s refereeing
Why he so rebellious? Up-front with his realness?
They wanna be Fiascos, reproduce his Failures
Emperor is his alias, but not Marcus Aurelius
This is more like Sparta: kick you down a well, kid
And on my last check, I copped that NSX, just like Pharrell did
Well did, better doings to come
My only promise is I’ll never ruin the young
I've never humanless sung lyrics in a spirit that's superhuman to some,

keep you pursuin’ the sum of
Slums, plus, get up outta them, plus never forget
This is where you from, plus
Make sure that you ballin' when you come back up in them, plus
We don’t die, multiply, every single come-up
Parum-pum-pum-pum, yup

Lyrics partly via RapGenius

Lupe Fiasco - Letting Go (ft. Sarah Green)

[Intro: Lupe Fiasco]
Oh oh…
Things are gettin outta control
Feels like I’m runnin' outta soul
Oh whoa oh oh [x4]
Oh..
You’re getting heavy to hold
Think I’ll be letting you go
Oh whoa oh oh [x4]
Oh…

[Verse #1: Lupe Fiasco]
My self-portrait, shows a man that the wealth tortured
Self absorbed with his own self-forfeit, a shelf full of awards
Worshippin the warships that set sail on my sea of life
Where I see my own self and wonder if we still see alike
We was tight, seein light. Speakin right and breathin life
Now I see my demons and barely even sleep at night
I don’t get high, life keep me at a decent height
As the old me, I predicted all my recent plights
Exhausted, tryna fall asleep. Lost inside my recent fights
Burdens on my shoulders now, burnin all my motives down
Inspiration dryin up, motivation slowin down.

[Chorus: Lupe Fiasco]
Oh oh…
Things are gettin outta control
Feels like I’m runnin outta soul
Oh whoa oh oh [x4]
Oh..
You’re getting heavy to hold
Think I’ll be letting you go
Oh whoa oh oh [x4]
Oh…

[Verse #2: Lupe Fiasco]
I'm beggin me don’t let me go
We vow(vowel) like the letter O
They’ll never go our separate ways or spin off into separate shows
Tired of all the wardrobe changing, playin all these extra roles
Filled with all these different spirits, livin off these separate souls
Point of life is gettin hollow, can’t wait for the exit hole
Gimme room to entry wound, let me in or let me go
So I can walk around this wilderness, see it for what it really is
Unprepared and filterless
Magnify the youth in me, alibi the shootin spree
Amplify the revolution, sanitize the lunacy
Strip away the justice, justify the scrutiny
I can see the Lasers shootin out of you and me

[Chorus: Lupe Fiasco]
Oh oh…
Things are gettin outta control
Feels like I’m runnin outta soul
Oh whoa oh oh [x4]
Oh..
You’re getting heavy to hold
Think I’ll be letting you go
Oh whoa oh oh [x4]
Oh…

[Bridge: Lupe Fiasco]
Sometimes I feel like the world..
Sometimes I feel oh.. like… the world.. is against me
And everything that I’ve done before, I swear we used to be so pure
But we can’t be in love no more, cause I don’t wanna fight this love
But when I put down my gun, I turn around and pick up one,

this Uzi weights a ton but I think I’m done

[Chorus: Lupe Fiasco]
Oh oh…
Things are gettin outta control
Feels like I’m runnin outta soul
Oh whoa oh oh [x4]
Oh..
You’re getting heavy to hold
Think I’ll be letting you go
Oh whoa oh oh [x4]
Oh…

[Outro: Sarah Green]
Go..go, go [repeats]
Things are getting..gettin outta control
Said it feels like, like I’m runnin outta soul
You’re gettin heavy to hold
Think I’ll be letting you go.
Letting you go…

Lupe Fiasco - Words I Never Said (ft. Skylar Grey)

[Intro: Skylar Grey]
It’s so loud inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said
I can’t take back the words I never said

[Verse #1: Lupe Fiasco]

(La-ser)

I really think the War on Terror is a bunch of bullshit
Just a poor excuse for you to use up all your bullets
How much money does it take to really make a full clip
9/11 building 7 did they really pull it?
Hold on, and a bunch of other cover ups
Your child's future was the first to go with budget cuts
If you think that hurts then, wait here comes the uppercut
The school was garbage in the first place, that's on the up and up
Keep you at the bottom but tease you with the upper-crust
You get it then they move it so you never keeping up enough
If you turn on TV all you see’s a bunch of “what the fucks”
Dude is dating so and so, blabbering bout such and such
And that ain't Jersey Shore, homie that's the news
And these the same people supposed to be telling us the truth
Limbaugh is a racist, Glen Beck is a racist
Gaza strip was getting bombed, Obama didn’t say shit
That's why I aint vote for him, next one either
I’ma part of the problem, my problem is I’m peaceful
And I believe in the people.... YEAH!

[Chorus: Skylar Grey]
It’s so loud inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said (x2)

[Verse #2: Lupe Fiasco]
Now you can say it ain't our fault if we never heard it
But if we know better than we probably deserve it
Jihad is not holy war, where's that in the worship?
Murdering is not Islam
And you are not observant!
And you are not a Muslim
Israel don’t take my side cause look how far you’ve pushed them
Walk with me into the ghetto, this where all the Kush went
Complain about the liquor store but what you drinking liquor for?
Complain about the gloom but when’d you pick a broom up?
Just listening to Pac ain't gon make it stop
A rebel in your thougts, ain't gon make it halt
If you don’t become an actor you’ll never be a factor
Pills with million side effects
Take em when the pains felt
Wash them down with Diet soda
Killin off your brain cells
Crooked banks around the world would gladly give a loan today
So if you ever miss a payment they can take your home away!

[Chorus: Skylar Grey]
It’s so loud inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said, never said
I can’t take back the words I never said

[Verse #3: Lupe Fiasco]
I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence
Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it
We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth
So scared of what you think of me, I’m scared of even telling you
Sometimes I’m like the only person I feel safe to tell it to
I’m locked inside a cell in me, I know that there’s a jail in you
Consider this your bailing out, so take a breath, inhale a few
My screams is finally getting free, my thoughts is finally yelling through

[Outro: Skylar Grey]
It’s so loud inside my head
With words that I should have said!
As I drown in my regrets
I can’t take back the words I never said

Lupe Fiasco - Till I Get There

[Verse 1]
Album on hold, whole world on hold.
The crowd is like “hooo!” Operators like “hooold.”
Man, now ain’t that cold? I’m just tryna talk to my homie that’s up in the hole
The homegirl not tryna be a hoe even though she on the pole
Can she get a second chance? No!
Whoa..like the opposite of gold, that ain’t how it’s supposed to be
A butterfly. But for the sake of rhyming let’s just say butterfly-he
The truth stings like Muhammad Ali
I tell em, tell em don’t homicide me
I’m just a little ol’ hope with his back against the ropes
Fightin for his fans and fightin for his folks
But the boos from the crowd can become so loud
If I can block em out then I can knock him out
And dance around the ring, but until then I’ll sing

[Chorus]
Imma keep it cool and I'mma do me
It is what it is and it’s how it’s gon be
Until I get there
Till I get there
I know I got flaws, I know I’m not perfect
But all the ups and downs will soon be worth it
When I get there
When I get there
Whoa

[Verse 2]
Doctor, doctor please. The fame ain’t painless enough
That’s cause you ain’t famous enough
You got a little game but your name ain’t ringin enough
He said take two of these, put some change in my cup
I said I wasn’t poor, he gave me some more
Prescribed me a publicist and pointed to the door

Out
Ouch

I’m tellin you this all from my therapists couch
Tell me bout your mother, what she’s all about
Prescribed me a interview and then told me to bounce

Damn
Geez

The world is so cold, I’m glad I bought these skis
Went right off of the bunny slopes and right into the trees
Rendered unconscious, they rushed me to a concert
Instead of green jello and maybe chicken soup
They fed me magazine covers and video shoots

[Chorus]
Imma keep it cool and I'mma do me
It is what it is and it’s how it’s gon be
Until I get there
Till I get there
I know I got flaws, I know I’m not perfect
But all the ups and downs will soon be worth it
When I get there
When I get there
Whoa

[Verse 3]
And when I finally make it, I'mma stunt so hard
Evil as Knievel, I'mma jump so far
Way up in the atmosphere and I ain’t comin back
Be a jerk to them jerks, yeah that’ll make em hurt

Huh?

Said a young boy in the mirror
A young version of me, so I started to tear up
He said you need to cheer up
Your mind need to clear up
You’re already here, just be yourself from here up
Then he disappeared and I felt somethin familiar
Somethin I was taught, somethin I had lost
If you are afraid or fear that you gon' change some
All you gotta do is just remember where you came from

[Chorus]
I'mma keep it cool and I'mma do me
It is what it is and it’s how it’s gon be
Until I get there
Till I get there
Yeah I got flaws, I know I’m not perfect
But all the ups and downs will soon be worth it
When I get there
When I get there
Whoa

Lupe Fiasco - I Don't Wanna Care Right Now [ft. MDMA]

Uh! Yuuup! Uh!

[Verse 1]
I’m not a choo choo
I’m a turboooo
Hater, pray to God that I turn slow
Like I’m sippin on purple
But I ain’t on your glooobe
I’m in a whole nother circle
Tryna keep it clean like church clothes
Said that respect was somethin I had to work for
But, that ain’t gon work though
Get your respect but lose all my worth? No
You can dead that, get a hearse, go
Don't leave 48 you'll find a killer in the first floor
It was me bwoy, to commercials
Feelin out of place like PETA at a fur store
So I left with a couple dozen fur coats
Said I could never break away from your hold
Watch me, turn though
Said that I blew it like turquoise
Just mad hear it all in your word choice
Know it hurts but I really don't care though
Let me rub it in, get it all up in that hoooo

[Chorus - MDMA]
I can see the morning creepin up on us
It's like the world's in my hands now
I'm feelin so rebellious from all of the envy crowding around me
I don't wanna care right now
I don't wanna care right now
No I really don't, really don't, wanna care right now

[Verse 2]
Oh-oh Go-Go-God over everything-thing
You fly but stars over everything-thing
And I'm one of them, yeah one of th-the-them
Oh I'm not o-o-one? Well I'm a hundred th-the-then
I'm a hundred mother lovin stars
You're no lights, you're an undercover car
I'm an ambulance, and a fire truck, and some strobe lights, tied up!
Shining all in your eyes, all out of yours and all into mines
Lights and stars is all intertwined
And I'm feeling like Malcolm looking all out the blinds
Any means any means
And you can do anything anything
And the flow tight, skinny jeans skinny jeans
Hit you like Pacquiao, Philippines Philippines

[Chorus - MDMA]
I can see the morning creepin up on us
It's like the world's in my hands now
I'm feelin so rebellious from all of the envy crowding around me
I don't wanna care right now
I don't wanna care right now
No I really don't, really don't, wanna care right now

[Verse 3]
Y’all know on the little, I’m Lupe
Yes sir, who they?
They yester, and I'm today, and tomorrow, hooray
Can I get a hip-hip for the new K-I-N-G, nigga I am he
Got the game in the clutch like I am chic
You ball little boy, But I N-B-A
With a hand for the world
You a boy band with a dance and a twirl
I'm a rockstar with a band so thorough
Big ass tour bus that's jammed full of girls
T-t-tell em what it do, holla from the bottom, yell it from the roof
T-t-tell em what it do, I don't care about your curfew
I'll tell you when I'm through bwoy

[Chorus - MDMA]
I can see the morning creepin up on us
It's like the world's in my hands now
I'm feelin so rebellious from all of the envy crowding around me
I don't wanna care right now
I don't wanna care right now
No I really don't, really don't, wanna care right now

[Bridge]
Tell em what it do, yell it from the bottom, yell it from the roof bwoy
Tell em what it do, holla from the bottom, yell it from the roof bwoy
Tell em what it do, holla from the bottom, yell it from the roof bwoy
Tell em what it do, holla from the bottom, yell it from the roof BWOY!

[Outro - MDMA]
I don't wanna, I-I don't wanna, I-I-I don't wanna
C-c-c-care right now
I don't wanna, I-I don't wanna, I-I-I don't wanna
C-c-c-care right, c-c-c-care right now

Lupe Fiasco - Out Of My Head [ft. Trey Songz]

And what we have here...
Somethin' great!
Trey!

[Chorus - Trey Songz]
Girl I want you to know
I can't get you out of my head, my head, my head,
Girl I want you to knoooow
I don't even know what you did, you did, you did
But I love it

[Verse 1]
Uh uh everything hooks, everything works
You're a real good chorus, I'm a real good verse
Freestyle unrehearsed
So clean, no curse
And when the song's gone, man everything hurts
So I put it in reverse
Go back to the scene where I seen you first
Yeah I need you to sing that single again
Play that video I seen you up in
A hundred million fans in my mind all day
Calling in requests on the line always
Yeah
The president of ya fan club
Leave them playas all behind like a band love

[Chorus - Trey Songz]
Girl I want you to know
I can't get you out of my head, my head, my head (I can’t get you out now)
Girl I want you to know
I don't even know what you did, you did, you did
But I love it.

[Verse 2]
Playa need a minute
Like in timeout in tennis ‘fore I finish
How’d I get in this?
Maybe it was your hair, maybe was your flair
Maybe it's the heels and the way you wear
Maybe it's your real in the way you care
You don 't care if I'm ill or a millionaire
The only thing that matters is that the feeling's there
Your smile's so bright like a grills in here
High off life don't need a pill in there
You 're killing me I think I need a will in here
Got me feelin real skills impaired
Hard to describe why you're still in here

[Chorus - Trey Songz]
Girl I want you to know
I can't get you out of my head, my head, my head,
Oh, girl I want you to know
I don't even know what you did, you did,
you did, but I love it.

[Bridge]
Trey:
Don't care when nobody say (cause I like it girl)

Lupe:
Might go crazy tryin to figure this out, love (but I like it girl)

Trey:
Don't even know why I feel this way (cause I like it girl)

Lupe:
Caught up in somethin that I can't get out off (but we like it girl)

[Chorus - Trey Songz] x2
Girl I want you to know
I can't get you out of my head, my head, my head,
(Lupe: I can 't get you out now, said I can't get you out now)
Oh, girl I want you to know
I don't even know what you did, you did, you did
But I love it

Lupe Fiasco - The Show Goes On (Official)

(Chorus)
Alright already the show goes on
All night til the morning we dream so long
Anybody ever wonder when they will see the sun up
Just remember when you come up the show goes on
Alright already the show goes on
All night til the morning we dream so long
Anybody ever wonder when they will see the sun up
Just remember when you come up the show goes on

(Verse 1)
Have you ever had the feeling that you was being had
Know that shit that make you mad
They treat you like a slave
Put chains all on your soul
And put whips up on your back
They be lying through teeth
Hope you slip up off your path
I don’t switch up off I just laugh
Put my kicks up on they desk
Unaffected by they threats
Then get busy on they ass
See that’s how that chi town made me
That’s how my daddy raised me
That glitterin may not be gold
Don’t let nobody play me
If you are my homeboy
You never have to pay me
Gon and put your hands up
When times is hard you stand up
LUPE the man
Cause a brand that the fans trust
So even if they ban us
They’ll never slow my plans up

(Chorus)
Alright already the show goes on
All night til the morning we dream so long
Anybody ever wonder when they will see the sun up
Just remember when you come up the show goes on
Alright already the show goes on
All night til the morning we dream so long
Anybody ever wonder when they will see the sun up
Just remember when you come up the show goes on

(Verse 2)
One In the air for people ain’t here
Two in the air for the father that’s there
Three in the air for the kids in the ghetto
Four for the kids that don’t wanna be there
None for the niggas tryna hold them back
Five in the air for the teacher not scared
To tell those kids that’s leaving in the ghetto

That the niggaz holding back
That the world is theirs
Yea yea the world is yours
I was once that little boy
Terrified of the world
Now I’m on a world tour
I will give up everything
Even start a world war
For these ghetto girls and boys, I’m rappin round the world for
Africa to New york
Haiti then I detour
Oakland down to Auckland
Ghaza strip to Detroit
Say hip hop on a destroy
Tell him look at me boy
I hope your son don’t have a gun, and never be a D-Boy

(Chorus)
Alright already the show goes on
All night til the morning we dream so long
Anybody ever wonder when they will see the sun up
Just remember when you come up the show goes on
Alright already the show goes on
All night til the morning we dream so long
Anybody ever wonder when they will see the sun up
Just remember when you come up the show goes on

(Verse 3)
So no matter what you been through
No matter what you into
No matter what you see when you look outside your window
Brown grass or green grass
Picket fence or barbed wire
Never ever put them down
You just lift your arms higher
Raise them til your arms tired, let em know your there.
That you struggling, surviving that you gon persevere yea
Aint nobody leavin, nobody going home
Even if they turn the lights out, the show is going on

via lupefiasco.com

Lupe Fiasco - Beautiful Lasers [ft. MDMA]

[Chorus - MDMA]
There’s only two ways..out…of here
You wait too late, you’ll be trapped here..forever
There’s only two ways..out..of…here
One's through the door, the other's through…me


[Verse 1]
Sometimes livin' in a word like this, it's pretty hard not to go insane
Not pretty if you don’t comply
Pretty easy if you don’t complain
Stand there like you don’t feel pain
No tears in the face of defeat
Pretend to the end that you don’t fear change
Don’t admit that your faith is weak
Don’t say that you feel like dying
Life’s hard that and it feels like diamonds
Goin home’s just far too gone
Much too late to even feel like trying
Can't understand what I’m saying. Can't figure out what I’m implying
If you feel you don’t want to be alive, you feel just how I am
I’m on the dark side. And you can't come find me
How when its light all around you
Yeah but it's dark inside em
No winners when it's me against me, one of us just ain't gonna survive
My heart been broke for a while
Your’s been the one keeping me alive

[Chorus - MDMA]
There’s only two ways..out…of here
You wait too late, you’ll be trapped here..forever
There’s only two ways..out..of…here
One's through the door, the other's through…me

[Verse 2]
This world's such a fucked up place. My mind's in such a fucked up shape
Everything down here sucks. Maybe what's up there is great
We all gotta go one day. I just wanna cut to the chase
I wanna stop these nightmares
I just wanna touch your face
All you see is all my feats. All I see is all my flaws
All I hear is all my demons. Even through your applause
All you see is all my flights. While all I see is all my falls
All you see is all my rights. All I see is all my wrongs
Don’t keep telling me to fight. Gun on the table tellin me to come on
Tellin me to put him inside my hand. Then put it up right next to my dome
Don’t keep tellin me to find a reason. Anything to keep me from squeezing
Simplest things. Yeah, you really like summer.
You really like music. You really like readin

Love

I can’t win if it’s me against me. One of us ain’t gonna survive
My heart been broke for a while. Your’s been the one keepin me alive.
Your’s been the one keepin me alive.
Your’s been the one keepin me alive!

[Chorus - MDMA]
There’s only two ways..out…of here
You wait, too late, you’ll be trapped here..forever
There’s only two ways..out..of…here
One's through the door, the other's through…me

The other’s through me [x4]

Lupe Fiasco - Coming Up

Lupe:
If you feelin good, lemme hear you see alright, alright!
Ant whattup!
Alright
Pooh Bear!
I’m feelin good so I'mma say it myself
Alright, alright
Claudio
Alright
So how we gon do this one?

[Verse 1]
This one goes out to the baby girls, in a rush growin up in this crazy world
Yeah your brother on the road, and he never home
I know you’re feelin kinda sad now that daddy gone
You can’t let it get you down, gotta carry on
We only lose things because it make us strong
You always have my love, and now you got a song
From the biggest biggest fan that you’ve ever known
I know you won’t be little girls, not for very long
And you ain’t gotta have a man if you don’t ever want
Cause I'mma make sure you got to of everything that you ever want
Every tone of your very own
Not gon make you hard to respect, just really, really, really, really hard to impress
It’s a whole wide world for you to go and get your hands on
Until then, come and get your dance on now!

[Chorus - MDMA]
I see you comin up
I'mma give you the low down, down, down
You ain't ever gotta worry bout nothing
Just as long as I’m around, round, round, round

[Verse 2]
This for everybody feelin good
You know who you are, or you’re misunderstood
Never had money, or you livin good
If you from the burbs, if you’re in the hooood
Recognize where we come from
In my day mayne, I did a lil sumn sumn
They like, how come you don’t rap that?
Cause that’s a backtrack and I ain’t tryna backpack
I’m only movin forward, homie that’s that
Direction, a lotta shawtys lack that
I’m just tryna give it to em like Satnav
Not knowin I might make it like a fat rat
That’s cool, as long as they don’t trap crack
Graduate from school and still let his pants sag
Never catch a case, know how the ladies catch that
Welcome to the map though
Any way you tap that

[Chorus - MDMA]
I see you comin up
I'mma give you the low down, down, down
You ain't ever gotta worry bout nothing
Just as long as I’m around, round, round, round

[Bridge - MDMA]
If you fall down, imma be there to carry you
And if you want that star, I’ll go get it out the sky for you
If you gotta shed a tear, I'mma dry your eyes
Just to let you know, it’ll be alright

[Verse 3]
I know it’s like a whole lot goin on
Things goin right, things goin wrong
Maybe baby on the way, you for so long
Know that in this world, you’re never really on your own
God got a number get Him on the phone
He’ll never put you in places where you don’t belong
Put you through the pain to put you on the throne
And I know that from the bottom of my corazon
And if they lookin at you sideways
You just wave right back and tell em hi Hay
Mad you ain’t hangin with em in the driveway
Nah, we gon keep it movin to the highway
Strongest putting on. The weak (week) is all over like Friday, Chillin'
Shout to King David for bringin a new villain
And all my pretty independent women in the building, let's go!

[Chorus - MDMA] x2
I see you comin up
Imma give you the low down, down, down
You ain't ever gotta worry bout nothing
Just as long as I’m around, round, round, round

Lupe Fiasco - State Run Radio [ft. Matt Mahaffey]

[Radio static]
[Chorus - Matt Mahaffey]
You must be…a radio station
And who are we? We must be..a number one song spinnin all day long
And over again[x5]
We don’t win when we call in.
And nothin’s free, sounds to me like
State Run Radio[x8]

[Verse 1]
We interrupt this broadcast,
To bring you this special message bout the forecast
The futures cloudy and it’s raining on the poor class
Road to peace is closed, heavy traffic on the war paths
Love is balling on a budget, the military says it’s gon need more cash
To keep fighting for your gas
Keep us in our hoods and hope we never explore pass
Stay inside of your half
Believe the lies you learned in your class
That there's no treasure in your trash
And the ceiling has the same feeling that the floor has
And that’s where you should stay,
This is what they play

[Chorus - Matt Mahaffey]
Over again
And over again[x4]
And we don’t win when we call in.
And nothin’s free, sounds to me like
State Run Radio[x8]

[Verse 2]
You’re now tuned into the weakest
Frequency of fear keep you locked right here
And hope you never leave this, never be a leader
Think inside the box, and follow all procedures
Never ever believe that you will never need this
Hit up all your friends and tell them to repeat this
Higher on the air, now what you wanna hear?
Well we ain’t got the truth, but how about a remix?
Different is never good, good is only what we pick
You ain’t got a hit, unless it sounds like these did
Not too smart, you will be a superstar
And if you dumb it sumn, maybe you could be number one

[Chorus- Matt Mahaffey]
Over again
And over again[x4]
And we don’t win when we call in.
And nothin’s free, sounds to me like
State Run Radio[x8]

[Verse 3]
So beware what’s on the airwaves.
And be more aware of what’s not getting airplay
Independent spirits, you can barely hear what they’re sayin
Truth ain’t getting on like shampoo on an airplane
Propaganda’s everywhere. Constantly on replay
All the hits, all the time. Back to back on relay
We’re really where it lives, make em hear the records we play
Build your own station, become your own DJ's

[Chorus - Matt Mahaffey]
You must be…a radio station
And who are we? We must be..a number one song spinnin all day long
And you put me…in daily rotation
You’re on the air, we know you’re scared
But we don’t care, we’ll play this here
Over again
And over again[x4]
We don’t win when we call in.
And nothin’s free, sounds to me like
State Run Radio[x16]

Lupe Fiasco - Break The Chain [ft. Eric Turner x Sway]

[Chorus - Eric Turner]
I waited all my life to play
I still can't find a way
But if I work it one more day
I might just break the Chain [x3]

[Verse 1]
Freedom, we could use some of that especially where we from
Where we grew up like a green thumb
Its like a criminal, the only thing you can become
Look at what I became, something like a phenom. Nothin but a G thang
Things I've seen when I'm looking out of these frames
Pictures I painted on the walls where we hang
From the trees we hung
Strange fruit man look at how we swung
How the hell you gonna tell us something
We ain't have a father, how to try to grow up and be one
See umm feel it in my bones
That I'm sittin on a throne like a killer with the chrome
When I spittin of the poem
Shed a whole lot of light on a little bit of home
Bow!

[Chorus - Eric Turner]
I waited all my life to play
I still can't find a way
But if I work it one more day
I might just break the Chain [x3]

[Verse 2 - Sway]
Super Swah, the cape remains,

thought I was M.I.A no paper? - Planes

I'm fly plus I don't write no more

its all off of the top I shaved the braids

And stayed sharp mother knew how to raise-a-blade (Razor Blade)

I paid my dues now I wait for change

and the flows so rude it goes without... *Saying*
Ask Lupe I'm Sucre, I aid the Break

Quick to cut off any baggage like some samurai I like to travel light

I gotta leave you at home Delilah,

this is Sampson Night (Samsonite)
No case for the police

said I know Killah's I never seen 'em, Ghostface

only time I'm watching is my Panerai

I've got an alibi I was in Chicago taking pics, call me Camera Chi (Shy)

[Chorus - Eric Turner]
I waited all my life to play
I still can't find a way
But if I work it one more day
I might just break the Chains[x3]

[Verse 3 - Lupe]
Chain broke
You ain't make a rep for your chain smoke
No cigarrettes on my plane yo
Stunt your ham bones from the game though
Put it on mine, take a long time
B.A. Barracus is how I'm livin online
In a webisode like let's go let 'em know
That I put up the footage that I'm takin' your shine
Wanna see the real change? Look in your mind
Your brain look like your ? brotha
Overgrow, overload, broken zone
Niggas playing games in the hood they got you sucka
Playa thinkin that its cool to be a pimp still
We gon set it free like a fish in a pimp hill
Take this home, rearrange it, change it
Danger, Sway-zer, Lupe, Laser
Pow!

[Chorus - Eric Turner]x2
I waited all my life to play
I still can't find a way
But if I work it one more day
I might just break the Chains[x3]

Lupe Fiasco - All Black Everything

[Hook]

You would never know
If you could ever be
If you never try
You would never see
Stayed in Africa
We ain't never leave
So there were no slaves in our history
Were no slave ships, were no misery, call me crazy, or isn't he
See I fell asleep and I had a dream, it was all black everything

[Lupe Fiasco - Verse 1]
Uh, and we ain't get exploited
White man ain't feared so he did not destroy it
We ain't work for free, see they had to employ it
Built it up together so we equally appointed
First 400 years, see we actually enjoyed it
Constitution written by W.E.B. Du Bois
Were no reconstructions, civil war got avoided
Little black sambo grows up to be a lawyer
Extra extra on the news stands
Black woman voted head of Ku Klux Klan
Malcolm Little dies as a old man
Martin Luther King read the eulogy for him
Followed by Bill O'Reilly who read from the Quran
President Bush sends condolences from Iran
Where Fox News reports live
That Ahmadinejad wins Mandela peace prize

[Hook]

[Lupe Fiasco-Verse 2]
Uh, and it ain't no projects
Keepin it real is not an understood concept
Yea, complexions not a contest
Cause racism has no context
Hip-Hop ain't got a section called conscious
Everybody rappin like crack never happened
Crips never occurred nor bloods to attack them
Matter of fact no hood to attack in
Somalia is a great place to relax in
Fred Astaire was the first to do a backspin
The rat pack was cool group of black men
That inspired the five white guys called the Jacksons
Eminem fitted in but then again he inspired a black rapper tryin to mimic him
And thats a really rose up out of michigan, the sign of white rapper by the name of 50 cent

[Hook]

[Lupe Fiasco-Verse 3]
Uh, and I know it's just a fantasy
I cordially invite you to ask why can't it be
Now we can do nothing bout the past
But we can do something bout the future that we have
We can make it fast or we can make it last
Every woman queen and every man a king
When those color lines come we can't see between
We just close our eyes till it's all black everything

[Hook]

Lyrics via RapGenius

Lupe Fiasco - Never Forget You [ft. John Legend]

[Chorus - John Legend]
Take me to that old familiar place
Take me to memories we won’t erase
Take me to all that we had
Good and the bad
I’ll never forget you
I’ll never let you go
I’ll never forget you
I’ll always remember, I hope you know

[Verse 1]
Let the record reflect the records we set
Best foot forward with every step
And let’s push towards it, never regress
And let’s remember, if ever we get
Down, the places that we came from round
And all the good times on the bad side of town
The upside of bad, flip it upside down
Came from the bottom but we up high now
Believe, and from this view we achieved
We looked back at the rules we received
And how we broke those, dismantled and rewrote those
And the ghost still alive in the photos
Sounds of the summer, day and go wise
Cold wind blowin through a city on fire
Moments of the past, came here to find you
Not to relive them, just to remind you

[Chorus - John Legend]
Take me to that old familiar place
Take me to memories we won’t erase
Take me to all that we had
Good and the bad
I’ll never forget you
I’ll never let you go
I’ll never forget you
I’ll always remember, I hope you know

[Verse 2]
And let the evidence show, the future’s so bright
It’s never been more, not like tonight
We walk into the glow, right into the light
The past all around us, the time of our life
The first love kisses, the broke heart disses
This is just like a first-class ticket
Back, to the first written rap
The crumbled-up paper and the pen with no cap
The hand-me-down clothes and the unturned hat
The hookers on the corner and the kids sellin’ crack
The needles in the yard where we used to play catch
Stories from the project we could never go at
Or to, these are shades of my youth
Trials of a child, everything truth
Moments of the past, comin’ back to find us
Not to relive them, just to remind us

[Chorus - John Legend]
Take me to that old familiar place
Take me to memories we won’t erase
Take me to all that we had
Good and the bad
I’ll never forget you
I’ll never let you go
I’ll never forget you
I’ll always remember, I hope you know

[Verse 3]
Everything cherished, remembered in my heart
So you will never perish, you will never part
I tell em all about you, drummin in the park
We put you in the ground, but I see you in the stars
Gon, take a bow, a round of applause
The best that ever, always ready we are
Love always shines, that’s how I’ll find you
In case you forgot, I hope this reminds you

[Chorus - John Legend]
Take me to that old familiar place
Take me to memories we won’t erase
Take me to all that we had
Good and the bad
I’ll never forget you
I’ll never let you go
I’ll never forget you
I’ll always remember, I hope you know