Hook Get up get get get down Get up get get get down Get up get get get down It’s Noble Art Right Now Get up get get get down Get up get get get down Get up get get get down It’s Noble Art Right Now Get up get get get down Get up get get get down Get up get get get down It’s Noble Art Right Now Get up get get get down Get up get get get down Get up get get get down It’s Noble Art Right Now Armed and dangerous/ Real recognize real/ Y'all look strange to us/ Weave webs of deceit/ Mother fucker Trying to get me tangled up/ Naw naw my 3rd eye see it coming/ before it happen/ You slipping no traction/ all lip no action/ Tough acting like tinactin toast to the fact that my bitch is the baddest/ And I'm seeing life through rose colored glasses/ Stunna shades on/ Ba ba ba bad to the bone/ KT got the beats that match these poems match these flows Making high art songs, vibrating through the soul Paint colors in the sky/ Blueprint mixed with Black On Both Sides My Umi say shine your light on the world/ But these swine might try to swallow my pearls/ I know how I know how to move in a room full of vultures/ Two step with vipers/ slow dance with cobras/ Faith to move boulders/ I'm a general amongst shoulders/ I fight with my mind, guided by my heart/ Apply the art of war to the war for this art/ I fight with my mind, guided by my heart/ Apply the art of war to the war for this art/ Hook Get up get get get down Get up get get get down Get up get get get down It’s Noble Art Right Now Get up get get get down Get up get get get down Get up get get get down It’s Noble Art Right Now Get up get get get down Get up get get get down Get up get get get down It’s Noble Art Right Now

Verse 1 Memphis Tennessee I was born by that river/ grand pappy ran a steel, use to bootleg liquor/ Body strong, Mind quicker/ educated descendent of a field nigga/ On righteousness and sin/ opinions may differ/ skinny magazine models but the sexier the thicker/ never judge a stripper/matter fact I might tip her/ cause the world see your skeletons if you ever slip up/ turn this shit up/ let it bump this is black folk music, jazz meets crunk/ BB King Blue, George Clinton with the funk/ My Muddy waters wash the stench off you skunks/ baptism in the rhythm/ Blessed atheist, holy sacrilegious/ Weed killer, seed sower, I make high art, the masses want lower Hook This that High Art fetish shit/ yall ain’t ready shit/ take aim at the game/ hold my hand steady shit/ I grab the gold, y'all focus on that petty shit/ A celebration bitches/ the confetti drip/ Verse 2 Y'all formulaic, play it safe, taking no chances/ I'm fearless when I working with these verses and stanzas/ Unorthodox leave y'all searching for answers Like Salvador Dali approaching the canvas/ These pieces gone persist in your memory/ Pieces of my time here play to remember me/ Encyclopedia might be required for that last line Nerds breaking down my rap genius in their past time Her ass fine but her face is a tragedy/ That'll make the hoes love me and the feminist mad at me/ I object to objectification/ but she pose nude to find her sexual liberation/ say art was less obscene back in the days/ The first porn was drawn on the wall of a cave/ If Denying my humanity is how to behave/ I'm bust hell open, I don't want to be saved Hook This that High Art fetish shit/ yall ain’t ready shit/ take aim at the game/ hold my hand steady shit/ I grab the gold, y'all focus on that petty shit/ A celebration bitches/ the confetti drip/ This is high art fetish for the freak in you/ Pimps got the same gift that preachers do/ So I'm a preach it while I pimp it And pimp it while I preach it Set the bar so high, these suckas can't reach it/ REPEAT (2X) You fine oh girl you fine You a piece of art painted in my mine You know I'm there, right there when you call And I'm take ya frame and put you up on my wall We both grown, ain't no shame/ I see ya grind, do ya thing/ We can chill, keep it cool/ You sexy and single and trying to finish school/ Hook This that High Art fetish shit/ yall ain’t ready shit/ take aim at the game/ hold my hand steady shit/ I grab the gold, y'all focus on that petty shit/ A celebration bitches/ the confetti drip/

Verse 1 2 chainz, 4 bracelets/ without my jewelry on a nigga feel naked/ But then I remind myself/ Nobody built like me I designed myself/ The biggest war I ever fight happens in my own mind/ grab a shovel start to dig, tap into this gold mine/ I’m one of a kind/ but on deck got these cold line/ killing em with my new shit, but they ain’t fucking with my old rhymes/ This flows divine/ even without no-cosign/ I mama love me, my daughters love me, my wife love me and I own mine/ So I remind myself Nobody built like me I design myself I go hard in the paint, body up, throw them elbows/ Stay on track, can’t derail me off my railroad/ They ringtone rapper cheap, don’t even know where they sell those I upscale like Melrose, making classics like shell toes/ I’m a mack truck, These niggas tyco I make it look caveman eeeesy like gieco So I remind myself Nobody built like me I design myself Noble Artright, I’m the smarty Art Type/ Stinkminer, nigga moments yall don’t wanna start fight/ My moon rocks, make typhoon drop, bring the tide up to ya boondocks Mad cause I got a big head, wanna make my balloon pop/ I’m the shit, I don’t care if you know/ I tap into my dreams like morse code/ And I remind myself Nobody built like me I design myself Hook They don’t know what you been through The price you paid to be you Don’t know the work and the pain I’m making dollars for this change I remind myself Nobody built like me, I designed myself Verse 2 All the lights in my life shine bright, never go dim/ Feeling Ice Cube, green 64 gold trim/ It’s a good day, Venitari when I kick it/ Put my name on big checks like a winning lotto ticket don’t stop get it/ get it/ authentic, so the people fucking with it/ And I remind myself Nobody built like me I design myself Count me out, don't even give a stumbling chance/ but I stick to my guns, and keep rumbling fam/ Eagle flying to the goal, no fumbling man reach for two in the bush, lose the one in the hand/ Motherfuckers don’t believe they can succeed, so they don’t want me to/ say my songs is wrong, I don’t belong, with middle finger up, this what I do/ Hook They don’t know what you been through The price you paid to be you Don’t know the work and the pain I’m making dollars for this change I remind myself Nobody built like me, I designed myself

Verse 1 Get money get rich/ The world's going to hell, ain't no saving this bitch/ Kill yourself trying to make the cape fit/ you just an actor can't escape the script/ truth won't change corrupt politics/ They shoot you down if you shoot from the hip/ Great fortune, crimes to commit/ Rockefeller, Kennedy, Carneige Shit/ I won't going down with the ship/ Uh uh won't happen captain/ I'll let the earth fall off it's axis/ Before I be a martyr and leave ' daughters lacking/ Being a hero, ain’t worth the energy/ die broke and leave ya kids with just memories/ Low pay high stress/ high debt/ That messiah complex becomes a noose around your neck/ Hook Every Christ get crucified/ Everybody but you survive/ Not appreciated when you alive/ They Build monuments after you die/ We say we ready but... We don't really want a hero Verse 2 So where you wanna stand/ The friend of kings or friend of the common man/ Is self preservation bad for your Karma man?/ Moses and Martins never see the promised land/ Lead them out of bondage and they wanna go back/ Put you Under surveillance watch the cameras go snap/ Sacrifice to have a knife jammed in ya back/ The ones you try to help be the ones who attack I'm on the fence, revolution or that nigga shit/ Live for today in luxury and ignorance/ Indulge, splurge til every last penny spent Or fight the power and live life indigent/ moral high ground appraised with High prices Assassinate characters, bankrupt with vices/ fate won't negotiate or bargain/ Make myself a hero, Make myself a target/ Hook Every Christ get crucified/ Everybody but you survive/ Not appreciated when you alive/ They Build monuments after you die/ We say we ready but... We don't really want a hero REPEAT (1X) Verse 3 build the community, marriage falling apart/ Be a light to world, family lives in dark/ Fight the power won't slide the electric bills/ Revolution lose it's sex appeal/ People respect that you down for the cause/ Wife losing respect, she seeing your flaws/ Knows you're a symbol of hope/ It's taking it's toll she at the end of her rope/ Too many missed birthdays to make up/ Missed school plays to make up/ Anniversary cake ate up/ Without you/ make a promise she doubt you/ Having Thoughts of getting along without/ sleeping alone/ raising kids no help/ you saving the world, she thinking of saving herself/ Questioning, you fuckin somebody else? Is this how Betty Shabazz and Coretta Scott felt?/ Hero to the people, to ya family you the villain/ broke, living off duckets and shillins drown ya sorrow and bottle up feelings/ the paint on your public image peeling/ What happens when the movement stops moving?/ You sacrifice winning to look good losing/ What happens when the movement stops moving?/ We sacrifice winning to look good losing/

Into Heavy is the head wearing the crown/ Haters hate to see you up, love to see you down/ Love to see you down Love to see you down Noble Artright’s verse Hater niggas marry hater bitches have hater kids/ I quote it, Ye said it, guess the hate is genetic/ Fake friends, smile's cosmetic These clowns frown at the polish on my rough edits/ you tell them about your goals, they say you can't get it/ but when you reach success they wanna take the credit/ Ooooh...These fools so pathetic Ooooh...So I pissed em off like diuretics/ Yeah Mufucka neva loved us/ When I'm sick neva visit me/ But now see this hard work wizardry/ Yall through pitty parties, seeking company for misery/ I decline with my nose to the grind/ They can't focus on theirs too focused on mines/ They wasting time backbiting and lying/ while I eating this elephant one bite at a time/ The hate is fine, I don't try to debate/ Niggaz hate when you good, they hate you more when you great/ They wanna see what it take/ to take you off of your mission/ i'm in a league of my own, I'm my own competition Dimissing ya lies, won’t entertain you lames/ I do Noble Artright and my name’s the same/ Chess master, stretegic with this game/ Cause Sucka ass pawns wanna take out the kings/ Hook Stay dressin clean, Living out my dream/ Focused on plan, getting money for my team/ they hate to see me do my thing/ These pawns wanna take out the king/ They hate me cause they love me/ They hate me cause they love me They hate me cause they love me so much/ They hate me cause they love me/ They hate me cause they love me They hate me cause they love me so much/ stic.man’s verse Hatred is the way a sucker shows his love Addictive hard to shake it its the coldest drug Wasted energy, jealousy, envy salty U can talk all you want just keep ya hands up off me Ya worst enemy could be ya friend Right beside ya Wolves...like sheep in ya face Drippin saliva But, I got the eye of the tiger And I peeped it Deep in the heart of hater a dirty secret Low self confidence, fear that they're inadequate Tryna to smear the next man name with inaccurate Poison ivy grape vine, Liquid in ya veins Cold heartedness A virtue and a sacrament for lames Even elders still guilty of these high school games Spreading rumors and gossiping slandering people names If a angel came down they'd try to clip off his wings but I'm immune cause I know they got they own self to blame that's like a hyena hating on the lion's mane The lion don't give a damn cause he know that he a king Hook Stay dressin clean, Living out my dream/ Focused on plan, getting money for my team/ they hate to see me do my thing/ These pawns wanna take out the king/ They hate me cause they love me/ They hate me cause they love me They hate me cause they love me so much/ They hate me cause they love me/ They hate me cause they love me They hate me cause they love me so much/

Hook (Sung by KEXA) Makes me feel so so good I hope it never wears off Makes me feel so so good I hope it never wears off I hope it never wears off I hope it never wears off Makes me feel so so good I hope it never wears off Empty heart fill your journal with sorrow Need a cigarette and some dollars to borrow Gotta move forward, can't rest on your lorries Decide today to make a better tomorrow/ I'm the greatest unknown unsigned hype Work 10,000 hours to get my mind right Shine bright, magic when I'm flexing But easily distracted like driving while texting Inertia make it hard to write this verses/ My words and my raps cast spells and lift curses/ might turn strippers to become nurses/ or gangstas into pastor of churches/ Conditions shitty in my city/ Hippy outsiders offer rhetoric and pity/ But when it get down to the nitty gritty/ Se the only ones chewing on that tough titty/ If I do evil kicks, it’s for the greater good/ reverse gentrifying these rich neighborhoods/ Misunderstood, think we living like savages/ My success fuck around with your averages/ My pops told me you can do what you put your mind too A star born in fog, you just gotta shine through/ Tell myself that my daughters watching you/ And nothing’s stopping you from doing the impossible/ Vices competing in the mind/ Want to and don't want to at the same damn time Tempted, itching for a fix/ The devil’s treat's just a Jedi mind trick Hook (Sung by KEXA) Makes me feel so so good I hope it never wears off Makes me feel so so good I hope it never wears off I hope it never wears off I hope it never wears off Honors English’s verse Just drawing pictures of myself to make sure that I’m alive/ Green pupils, dollar signs, dotted eyes/ Shit is hard, no time to rap when you got a job/ Spoke to three wise man, they said give your gift to God/ So I gotta rise or I’m going Amistad/ Can’t climb the ladder, so fuck it I’m pulling down the sky/ I’m on my grind, humble, I’m on my grind/ We’ll reach a million one crumpled dollar at a time/ But about my business, that’s what’s best for me/ Especially since I got a masters and a BS degree/ As for me, so fuck it. Low budget. Low effort. The dream’s free, but the hustle’s sold separately/ Rebel with a dream, me forever king/ Feeling like a never ending song that never sing/ Yet on point like a cactus, thinking about the atlas/ Won’t let the world cut me down while spinning on it’s axis/ I got news for yall, when I ain’t broke no more/ I smack you with the watch til the Time Broke off/ That’s what it’s meant for dog, what yall attempt for/ You can run your car off this smooth shit, my pen’s oil/ Hook (Sung by KEXA) Makes me feel so so good I hope it never wears off Makes me feel so so good I hope it never wears off I hope it never wears off I hope it never wears off (Blackstar-Respiration Reprisal) So much on my mind that I can't recline Blastin' holes in the night til' she bled sunshine Breathe in, inhale vapors from bright stars that shine Breathe out, weed smoke retrace the skyline Heard the bass ride out like an ancient mating call I can't take it y'all, I can feel the city breathin' Chest heavin', against the flesh of the evening Sigh before we die like the last train leaving

How To Make it In Amerikkka Noble verse You might catch me dressed fresh to death, looking regal/ But still in you hood yelling power to the people/ lyrical acupuncture, the pins and the needles/ Gil Scott Heron passed, I'ma be his sequel/ These rappers just feeble/ They the type to feed pigeons and shoot the eagles/ But I'ma do good, even if illegal/ Cause just cause it's legal don't mean it ain't evil/ We in the streets trying to make ends meet/ While stock broker get paid to cheat and reap Profits, so large extreme and obscene/ it's like fornication under consent of the king/ I write dreams, to chase away nightmares/ Throwing rocks at tanks but they say I don't fight fair/ Breath light from my lungs I can kick the hornet's nest and not get stung/ Hook How to make it...huh? How to make it...huh? Uh...How to make it in Amerikkka How to make it...huh? How to make it...huh? Uh...How to make it in Amerikkka How to make it...huh? How to make it...huh? Uh...How to make it in Amerikkka How to make it...huh? How to make it...huh? Uh...How to make it in Amerikkka mikeflo’s verse Flo… Decisions, decisions, a brother gotta make/ You wanna live or survive, struggle or eat the cake/ Fuck it, give me the steak. And I don’t eat meat/ Or buy beef, I’m just saying that snapper ain’t cheap/ The motto here is no compromise/ If you do and get bread then capitalise Take opportunity and prosper, optimize/ I push the pedal to metal and maximize/ Decolonize ya mind, break free, shake shackles/ Neocolonial mind control, have you backwards/ Elephants in the circus, killer whales at Seaworld/ Get out the zoo, I’m talking to you/ You wanna make it in Amerikkka, build your crew/ That team work, dream work, I tell you the truth/ Cause only steel sharpen steel, so gather your tools/ No one man is an island, heed the jewels. Flo! Hook How to make it...huh? How to make it...huh? Uh...How to make it in Amerikkka How to make it...huh? How to make it...huh? Uh...How to make it in Amerikkka How to make it...huh? How to make it...huh? Uh...How to make it in Amerikkka How to make it...huh? How to make it...huh? Uh...How to make it in Amerikkka Noble breakdown verse I speak truth like Farrakhan/ Like Kanye at that Katrina telethon/ Patiently pepper the page I pen Paragons/ this ain't a sprint homie it's a Marathon/ I'm a verbal war head, they barely cherry bombs/ While these punks panic I keep very calm/ My performance is enhanced sorta like Barry Bonds/ I spit hidden treasures kinda like buried bonds/ You can dig it/ Dying of thirst, you get water from this spigot/ Pictures so vivid, we living so livid/ Rebellious righteous and rigid/ No time for compromise with the wicked/ I see through you suckers like ghost/ I speak for those who got it rougher than most/ Hope in my verse, the people clutching it close/ And they spread news about me like the huffington post/

This my peacock, rick flair struttin/ Got my money right, yall can't tell me nothing/ A lot of fucking, I get rich all of a sudden/ I let yall diet, I'ma live up like a glutton/ New species turducken/ Young old nigga, Benjamin Budden/ That's means I'm young and fresh enough still to be cool/ But much too wise to play around with you fools/ So give me my mine in cash/ Naughty boy Santa Clause wanna give me mine in ash/ Ya girl a freak she wanna give me mine in ass/ Sir Mix a lot and put em on the glass/ Sorry if I’m coming off brash/ but this hip hop, I state my claim plant my flag/ I heard that nice guys finish last/ played the humble for too long, now it’s time to show my ass/ Nothing personal not dissin/ But I'm killing you rappers for my daughter’s tuition/ When I sit down to write I'm getting down to business/ Send out these raps to come back with interest/ just do it for the art, I don’t fall for that lie/ They just trying to give you the small piece of the pie/ Try to swindle me or play me for a joke/ And I’ll cause a Scandal like Olivia Pope/ no fixing this like a handyman/ This game ain’t sweet like candyland/ want me to let them past like an ambulance/ but I leave them running in place like the hammer dane/ They won’t get far/ I'm on my P's & Q's like before R/ add it up like pennies in a jar/ Cold hard cash, no checks or cards/

Hook I thought I killed the best part of me But it’s still haunting me And I can’t avoid it Cause it’s all on me This skin I’m in This skin I’m in This skin I’m in This skin I’m in Snubzero’s verse The village has been pillaged/ The villager’s spirit been weakened by cheap gimmicks/ The free clinic’s flooded, they the fucking with no rubbers/ And broke brothers ducking, unlucky for poor mothers/ There’s no fathers, I’m so flustered/ There’s something strange in the neighborhood, Ghostbusters/ I’m a soul toucher, these streets are so rugged/ Like Noble eight years ago, there’s no Justice/ No peace, the village’s police/ Are so beast. Blood spilling on your street/ The chillen get no sleep, They chilling with no heat/ Cause villains with gold teeth are menacing 4 deep/ I pen is penicillin, my signature is so sweet/ Consider it insulin for the obese/ Now that’s fat, you pull over that’s that/ That last two word you hearing is clack clack/ Back back, I’m here to vent and here to give your ear a bit/ Of spearmint, to clearing scent the bullshit you hearing it/ Freedom has one hell of a flavor/ No may the odds be ever in your favor/ Hook I thought I killed the best part of me But it’s still haunting me And I can’t avoid it Cause it’s all on me This skin I’m in This skin I’m in This skin I’m in This skin I’m in Bridge I killed the best of part of me I killed the best of part of me I killed the best of part of me I killed the best of part of me Noble Artright’s verse Old men start wars for young men to fight/ Pens only strong than swords if you know what to write/ Black males better guard your life/ The Hunt is on, we the prey, don’t get caught in the sights/ Cause we society’s menaces/ Limitless but when we get close to the finishing/ The The line get moved/ Put a young life in the balance and the eyes get glued/ To the tube, the rules is skewed/ So they already determining who get screwed/ Never build, only destroy when those tools get used/ Click and load and I ain’t talking bout views on youtube/ I’m talking failing schools, prisons adding to the bottom line/ Company’s profit margin increasing with the rate of crime/ The New Jim Crow, Slavery By Another Name/ You riding round and getting it, they’ll get for both of ya chains/ They sponsor the medicine, sponsor the pain/ Poor folks dying, Rich folks be entertained/ And we sit around hoping for a savior/ Praying to God that odds are in our favor/ Hunger Games Hook I thought I killed the best part of me But it’s still haunting me And I can’t avoid it Cause it’s all on me This skin I’m in This skin I’m in This skin I’m in This skin I’m in

Muhammed Ali Hook We want the most not the lesser Nobody to protect us I’m up early hunting for my breakfast I’m on my shit you can’t stop me I’m on my shit you can’t stop me Verse 1 This for my mama/ This is for my pops who equipped me with this armor/ Black men/ stay ready to fight/ It's a war for ya life/ but I'm a teach you how to win/ be flexible and bend, don't break under the pressure/ you gone wrestle with the man, but your own people still gone stress ya/ So wake up early and ready/ if they bring a knife, nigga bring a machete/ sleep is for the weak/ scratch and crawl, climb to reach the peak/ you don't work then you don't eat/ never follow crowds, cause lions eat the sheep workout your body but your mind your most important muscle/ Fuck you pay me, show me you respect my hustle/ And on the check, spell my name right/ don't make me go Ali in that Ernie Terrell fight/ Hook We want the most not the lesser Nobody to protect us I’m up early hunting for my breakfast I’m on my shit you can’t stop me I’m on my shit you can’t stop me Like Ali in his prime I’m the greatest in my mind I’m on my shit you can’t stop me I’m on my shit you can’t stop me Verse 2 Love when you a underdog hate when you a champion/ Love when you a underdog hate when you a champion/ hate/ when you admit that you great/ Want you to be fake/ and dim you light for they sake/ Fuck that/ I unload my best like clipse from guns/ I shine so bright I eclipse the sun/ Gotta pause and let that sink in/ To get ahead I work through the weekend but y'all think I'm cheating/ Love when you a underdog hate when you a champion/ Love when you a underdog hate when you a champion/ Hate to see you paid/ I'm drunk of my own wine, drink my own koolaid/ Sacrifices you made/ they avoid like the new plague/ On top for a few days/ cause they artificial like a toupee/ But I'm arriving to stay/ tied up my shoe lace/ Ready to train and deal with the pain/ Mold a champion like new clay/ Hook We want the most not the lesser Nobody to protect us I’m up early hunting for my breakfast I’m on my shit you can’t stop me I’m on my shit you can’t stop me Like Ali in his prime I’m the greatest in my mind I’m on my shit you can’t stop me I’m on my shit you can’t stop me Talk my shit, again and again/ Losers quit while I win and win/ Demoralized, need a hug from a friend/ People's champ in the gym/ y'all gotta take it on the chin/ We struggle fight and scheme/ use dirty money get clean/ Find a way to paddle upstream/ Tiger blood is in my jeans/ Peasant dreams ain't a thing when you talking to a king You puppets dance and sing when your master pulls the string/ But I'm sitting here invensible, standing on my principles/ Hugh Hefner style, Sexy women in my living room/ Yeah, higher level, never settle/ To get to heaven, had to dance with my devils/ Hood roots/ but I'm high class/ A nigga lose himself/ if he forget his past/ Never lose my edge/ never pompous/ Never ignorant getting goals accomplished/

The Muse She’ll take you to heaven On a detour through hell The answers she give Make you question yourself/ She mix vices and virtues make you feel good to hurt you/ long legs high heels she working they skirt just to work you/ She show a lil leg, then take it back/ Show a lil leg, then take it back/ Show a lil leg, then take it back She shemmy and she shake it and she got you like that/ She make you wanna sing/ Make you wanna draw/ Take you to the stars and then let you fall/ She show a lil leg, then take it back/ Show a lil leg, then take it back/ Show a lil leg, then take it back Shemmy and she shake it and she got you like that/ she got you like that/ she got you like that/ she got you like that/ she got you like that/ Pretty young thing, no makeup on her face/ Sexy Lady in the place with style and grace/ hmmm...at a lost for words/ body so deadly/ crash on her curves/ bad nerves got me living on the edge/ Gypsy belly dancing living in my head/ she tell me look but no touching/ She master the art of seduction/ And I like to be seduced/ she throw me for a loop, got me jumping through hoops/ She whisper in my ear, put the world on mute/ Bring steam to my engine when she use her caboose/ She leaves me defenseless/ Stimulating all five senses/ Big titties big ass, little waist/ When she talk concentrate to look her in the face/ Gemini, easily distracted/ too cool, she got me slipping on my macking/ Round the way girl, dressed in high fashion/ Trendy and classic, she the total package/ She cook up soup for your soul/ still work as stripper pole and give you head on the road/ But love her with your mind not your heart/ No cuffin this girl, she the muse for high art/

Regrets Hook Beautiful memories, Torture me Make it hard to sleep, hard to think Thinking back on what we had Fairy tales ain't made to last Do you regret it like I do Do you regret it like I do Do you regret it like I do Do you regret it like I do I'm bout to get on my Drake shit I know niggaz hate on that Drake shit Don't wanna save her and put on that cape shit rather spend they life alone and be on that fake shit I loved an angel once, but she didn't know if it would work/ Had demons in her past, she was scared of getting hurt/ with destiny we would flirt/ But her doubt bruised my ego, so I'm acted like a jerk/ I thought we were perfect, while she would just over think/ Sailed past paradise, communication out of sync/ a lovely love song, melody so sweet/ we waltz with the stars but we were slightly off beat/ Today I dance different, my two step better/ If now was back then, we could two step together/ Love lost but I would do that shit again/ Heart broke when I think what could have been/ Hook Beautiful memories, Torture me Make it hard to sleep, hard to think Thinking back on what we had Fairy tales ain't made to last Do you regret it like I do Do you regret it like I do Do you regret it like I do Do you regret it like I do I got a queen here beside me You you queen yourself so you could never be my side piece Digging on each other, who knows what we might find? Erykah Badu, I’ll see you next lifetime/ But between us is this energy/ I can't deny our chemistry/ theo symmetry of your imagery/ That keeps replaying in my memory/ occupy my daydreams/ I got you smitten/ the fruit taste sweeter, when it's forbidden/ Leave marks on your apple bottom when it gets bitten/ This a guilty pleasure, can't keep it hidden/ Feeling right but we, we know it's wrong/ We know it's wrong, we know it can't last long/ Enjoy the moment when we, we in the zone/ Bu bu But regret it when I gotta go home

Verse 1 Niggaz say bitches is trif, Bitches say niggaz is/ Just don't understand our fundamental differences/ It's like she speak a different language/ How my best friend become a stranger/ Emotions mixed up and tangled/ Trying to express my hurt through my anger/ We let little shit change us/ Now everything we built is in danger/ We went zero to a hundred nigga real quick/ Divorce on the table, that's some real shit/ Ain't no victims here, we both to blame No monopoly on hurt, we both in pain/ A damn shame, we was the perfect couple/ Made love, fuck and then cuddle/ Cracks in the foundation oh so subtle/ now we crumbling at the first sign of trouble/ Nothing's ever perfect, nothing's ever perfect We can make it work if we decide it's worth it/ Nothing's ever perfect, nothing's ever perfect We can make it work if we decide it's worth it/ Hook We confused We fucked up We confused We fucked up Verse 2 Forgive you and put the past behind me But of my mistakes you always remind me/ My mistakes don't define me/ God damn it, my mistakes don't define me/ I guess ya shit don't stank/ I guess we got through one storm and our ship gone sink/ I guess I'm in my feelings, I just don't think/ fight or flight acting on instinct/ Meditating seeking to enlighten In Heat of the moment, emotions seem heighten/ Janay and Ray Rice in a elevator fighting/ Robin Givens manipulating Mike Tyson We try to talk it out but end up annoyed/ We both got needs that end up ignored/ Looking elsewhere to fill the void/ Complexes from childhood in our heads like Freud/ This is torture...so sadistic/ Now our marriage is reduced to a statistic/ The effect on the kids, weighing on my mind Seven year itch, leave scared us for a lifetime/ Nothing's ever perfect, nothing's ever perfect We can make it work if we decide it's worth it/ Nothing's ever perfect, nothing's ever perfect We can make it work if we decide it's worth it/ Hook We confused We fucked up We confused We fucked up

Let me make a few things clear Let me chose love over fear Let me make a few things clear Life is better with you here Verse 1 Sometimes it takes our whole life shattered Then all the pieces scattered Hearts broken bruised and battered For us to see what really matters To get back at us, to where love had us/ To break the cycle, gotta break the pattern/ Sometimes to reach the shore, you gotta lose the paddle/ Sometimes to win the war, you gotta lose the battle/ I'm tired of fighting, wanna get back to loving/ Get back to touching, get back to hugging/ We waste time fussin/ let's get back to fucking/ And maybe put another baby in the oven/ Let's cook up a vision, let's live out our dreams/ Let go of anger, let the pendulum swing/ In the other direction, let's see what that brings/ Let's see what happens when we focus on happy things/ Chorus Let's not toast to the past, cause our future much brighter/ We all got through shit, we all get low, but let’s vibrate higher/ We can make war or make babies/ We can make it through when times get crazy/ We don't feel love, and skies get hazy/ We can find the way to clear skies/ Verse 2 For love to be great it ain't gotta perfected/ Let's get reacquainted, let's get reconnected/ Your perspective respected/ my perspective respected/ Magic recipe, let's make our way through the check list/ A little bit of patience, a little bit of kindness/ And for all my flaws, add a little of blindness/ That's why Stevie to paint ribbons in the sky/ Let's keep it honest, can't be living with no lies/ No disguise but a little bit of mystery/ Learn from mistakes, we both know our history Nothing happens instantly, work is apart of it/ Look over the fence but grass greener where you water it/ Let's get to the heart of it, and not just say we close/ The ones we say we love be the ones we hurt the most/ The ones we hurt the most be the ones we need/ Give forgiveness and forgiven we receive/ Chorus Let's not toast to the past, cause our future much brighter/ We all got through shit, we all get low, but let’s vibrate higher/ We can make war or make babies/ We can make it through when times get crazy/ We don't feel love, and skies get hazy/ We can find the way to clear skies/

I use to be a christian on a mission to save the world now I contemplate how to teach my baby girls/ the virtue and vices of all religions/ Give em knowledge to make informed decisions/ logic and reason, sober mentality/ stumble through life, drunk spirituality hood casualties, innocent fatalities/ turn gods from reality to fallacies/ To find ya truth, gotta lose your religions/ Black Gods made in white man’s prison/ Black devils made from white man's sinning/ Fuck that nigga, we just trying to make a living/ No apologizes for being after the cheese/ cause what you perceives as greed/ Is me trying to feed my seeds/ and climb Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs/ Crawl through valleys to Self actualize/ Flock lead astray when the pastor tell lies/ Sleight of hand, distracting the eyes I only have faith in what my action provides/ A beautiful mind mixed with passion and pride/ Buried seeds that grow and capture the sky/ We act right and ya’ll acting surprised/ That nigga act is just an act to survive/ Ya soul die from what they teach in their class/ Poison your spirit by walking their path/ Funeral for freedom, buried in mass/ Cremation of dreams, burnt into ash/ Hope karma look pass part of my past/ played with girls minds, put their hearts in a cast/ Will my daughters have it bad, cause of my misdeeds/ Can forbidden fruit go back on the tree/ Lay down with dogs, you might catch flees/ miss the snakes in your house/ watching snakes in the weeds/ the grapevine bleed wine, made without you/ If They gossip to you, they’ll gossip about you/ A few facts of life you can’t avoid/ Voices in ya head, you can’t record/ Hearing God or yourself or you paranoid/ Search within for the signal, through the noise/ Singing Part You a well of inspiration, take a drink/ Still ya mind cause still waters run deep High truth on the low/ You got what you search for/ believe they lies or believe in you/ it’s your choice/ The pollution speak loud/ But you the signal through the noise/ you the signal through the noise (hold) you the signal through the noise Repeat till the end.