Lupe Fiasco - Valleys lyrics

rate me

Lupe Fiasco - In

(Talking)

I was born in a small village

I was still a child when we were raided by soldiers

Foreign soldiers

Torn from my elders, I was made to speak their language

With each new post, my masters changed

Along with the words they made me speak

With each change, I changed too

My thoughts, personality, how I saw right and wrong

Words can kill (Pharaoh)

Time and again, the country was ruled by a foreign tongue

When he was young boy, he lost his native language

The bedrock for any developin child

His country, his family, his face, his identity

Everythin was stolen from him

(Verse)

Meet me on the corner, I be waitin on you

100 years of better right into forever

Fire on my feathers, far from out of heaven

Fight without a weapon, life without a lesson

Lost, I'm my own boss, pay my own cost

Fill my own goals, see my own hopes

Tired of all of this, wish I had a switch

One kiss then you cut me off (Pharaoh)

Knowledge is the power, college is for cowards

Hollering for hours, swallowin the sour

Skin stuck around the rims, peekin in on a life so sweet

The other side made it, why don't we?

(Talking)

Yeah, yeh

Since ancient times, every civilization's ruler has had the same idea.

When people unite under one will, they become stronger than the sum of their parts and what do rulers use to bring people together? Language.

"This world will become one, I have found the way.

Race, tribal affiliations, national borders - even our faces will be irrelevant.

The world that the boss envisioned will finally become a reality and it will make mankind whole again

(Verse)

Found a friend in the words and my words and it works

Take away the pain, take away the hurt

Make a way to make a change, make it sane

Specially if you plan on stayin on this Earth

Low to the lows, high to the highs

Eyes to the sky, strive to revive, dyin to survive

Pool full of cries but it's cool, I'm still alive

And every breath is every left soul

And the family never kept whole

In the slum, wanna quest to be the best of bein less

Never let go, the best road to the next level

And the scenes where it's mean to do the right thing

Not to be a good king but the best devil

So it's horns for the crown, torn from the ground

Roses by the roots stolen from the roofs on parade days

Look at them rain down

I was brought here a slave

But I leave here a pharaoh

(Talking)

America is a country of liberty, a meetin of immigrants

Instead of simply assimilatin, its citizens live alongside others

So the major sought a system that used information

Words to control the subconscious (Pharaoh)

In his eyes, the greatest symbiotic parasite the world's ever known isn't microbial, it's linguistic

Words is what keep civilization, our world, alive

(Outro)

(Pharaoh)

You are what you say you are, the coolest

Won't you just shine down?

If you are what you say you are, the coolest

Why won't you just shine down?

Lupe Fiasco – Valleys

(Intro)

Pharaoh, pharaoh?

Pharaoh

Cuz you’re fallin without again

(Verse)

Dollar mission, Mississippi masala gettin

Guava Casaba melons, gettin a spot at competition

Titties and teeth, so silly of me, no really, it’s free

Ay you can use the phone like a new computer wand

That’s an Ethernet pun, cuz dial-up’s all done

When it took 20 minutes just to download one

Ay, you got a fine face, also a dime in your behind

Please can I find some time space to find base

Kinds of rhymes to describe how you’re designed great

And maybe remove the mind free, yeah

Like it’s overhead creams at the train yard

That Tom Cruise used in the War of the World's

Before the aliens came part

Remember that, oh, not a fan of the sci-fi?

Like dial-up’s not a fan of the wi-fi

I’m in your eyes like little reflective little pools of tie-dye

And it’s 1972 and I’m too long-haired high guy

Drivin a Volkswagen Beetle off into the California twilight

I usually got top cuz I’m a guy right

But if you’re gay that’s straight too

Hey, I don’t hate, I got a couple of friends who went vi twice

Did that arrive right?

Do you like whole stories or just the highlights

Cuz I like to write your life story on the sky

Made of Lite Brights, remember those?

Ten years old, let me guess your age

You were a ten, ten years ago

Am I right, who you callin?

Maybe New Orleans

Where your mother lives with your brother's kids

Because he locked up cuz

Of what some other mutherfucker did

Love to fib bout the Fibonacci sequence

Do you flicker like Liberace Sequins

Or maybe twinkle like little stars

And tingle like little scars

I run a wrinkle with you like a car hood

And crash test and b-box while we re-rocks

Saul William’s doin the slam set

Then wrap like saran over the pan

Keep the yams fresh, sweet

5 different songs, over five different beats

And this one’s called Valley

I wrote it on the plane in the chair by the galley

On the way to Cali, chicken in the salad

Sounds like a ballad

You loyal, so I’m Khaled

Buy your mama a palace, scratch that

Buy your mama what matters

Data says dollars hotter than two nevadas

Burnin hole in the pockets

And in the wallets of all the rappers

Trappers attractin all the yellowbone Instagrammers

But what about us?

Pharaoh x 3

(Verse)

It burns inside like lactic acid

Exorcise demons, turn em into gods

Turnin in the rods for the bags of the catfish

I don’t believe that God is a black man

Spoiled child gettin robbed for his black mans

Mars and other stars in the CAT scans

Back when I listened to Killer Priest

Had my mind thicker and bigger than Philip Heath

Walkin round in kufis with sunnis with dhikr beads

Rememberin the movies my duty was killin beats

Social villain unwillin to live in peace

I told you children I’m wieldin a livin beast

Streets, this is where Helen and Ellen meet

So you can get lost like Gilligan on the beach

The players gettin mad they not kickin it with the freaks

Cuz they took away they pussy and givin it to the geeks

Like us, paradigm shifter, South Carolina Nine shrine shine giver

But not enough dimes to be a crime line tipper

The difference between "nigga", and "nigger"

Ah, Bernie Sanders need a Nike deal

Then I might consider that, he might be real

If Phil Knight, knight him then I might like him

Until then children, enjoy the white icin on the cake

Cake x 4

On the cake, cake, cake, cake, cake x 3

Yeah, yeah, pharaoh, height, yeah, yeah , al’ght

(Verse)

Freestyle off the top, sitting on the stool on the block

Watchin for the cops, watchin for the thots, watchin for the shots

I’m watchin for a lot, I gotta use my eyes cuz they use me

Cuz to em I’m like a price, so I say surprises

And they don’t deprive us, I just demise us

And nuthin ever lies yes, on my premisises

Watched for my demises

Maybe might like em, til then just enjoy the white icin on the cake

Cake x 4

The cake, cake, cake, cake, cake x 3

(Outro)

[Ameri- the cake, cake, cake, cake, cake

The cake, cake, cake, cake, cake x 3 ] x 2