所属专辑:Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor
歌手: Lupe Fiasco
时长: 03:46
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool[00:00:01]
Yeah...[00:00:05]
Yeah...[00:00:09]
The cool.[00:00:12]
Turn me up[00:00:15]
Uh-huh..[00:00:16]
Yeah..[00:00:17]
He came back[00:00:20]
In the same suit that he was buried in[00:00:21]
Similar to the one his grand father was married in[00:00:23]
Yes... he was still fresh to death[00:00:25]
Bling, two ear-rings, a chain laying on his chest[00:00:28]
He still had it cuz they couldn't find it[00:00:30]
And the bullets from his enemies sat like two inches behind it[00:00:32]
Smelled the Hennesy from when his niggas got reminded[00:00:35]
And poured out liquor in his memory, he didn't mind it, But...[00:00:38]
He couldn't sip it fast enough[00:00:41]
So the liquor was just filling the casket up[00:00:43]
Floating down by his feet was the letter from his sister[00:00:45]
Second Grade hand-writing simply read "I miss ya"[00:00:48]
Suit jacket pocket held his baby daughter's picture[00:00:51]
Right next to it one of his man's stuck a swisher[00:00:53]
He had a notion as he laid there soaking[00:00:56]
Saw that the latch was broken, he kicked his casket open[00:00:58]
And he...[00:01:01]
This life goes passing you by[00:01:01]
It might go fast if you lie[00:01:04]
You go and you live then you die...[00:01:06]
O-oh-oh-ohh[00:01:10]
If life goes passing you by[00:01:12]
Don't cry[00:01:14]
If you breaking the rules[00:01:15]
Making your moves[00:01:17]
Paying your dues...[00:01:18]
Chasing the cool[00:01:20]
Not at all nervous as he dug to the surface[00:01:22]
Tarnished gold chain is what he loosened up the earth with[00:01:24]
He used his mouth as a shovel to try and hollow it[00:01:26]
And when he couldn't dirt spit... swollowed it[00:01:29]
Working like a.. hmm.. reverse archaeologist[00:01:31]
Except.. his buried treasure was sunshine[00:01:34]
So when some shined through a hole that he had drove[00:01:37]
It reflected off the gold and almost made son blind[00:01:39]
He grabbed on to some grass, he climbed[00:01:41]
Pulled himself up out of his own grave and looked at the time[00:01:44]
On the watch that had stopped six months after the shots[00:01:47]
That had got him in the box wringing Henny out his socks[00:01:49]
Figured it was hours because he wasn't older[00:01:52]
Used some flowers to brush the dirt up off his shoulders - so..[00:01:54]
With a right hand that was all bones and no reason to stay[00:01:57]
Decided to walk home[00:02:01]
So he..[00:02:02]
This life goes passing you by[00:02:03]
It might go fast if you lie[00:02:05]
You go and you live then you die...[00:02:07]
O-oh-oh-ohh[00:02:11]
If life goes passing you by[00:02:13]
Don't cry[00:02:15]
If you breaking the rules[00:02:16]
Making your moves[00:02:18]
Paying your dues...[00:02:19]
Chasing the cool[00:02:21]
He begged for some change to get him on a train[00:02:23]
"Damn that nigga stank", is what they complained[00:02:25]
Tried to light the blunt but it burst into flames[00:02:27]
Caught the reflection in the window of what he became[00:02:30]
A long look... Wasn't shook, wasn't ashamed[00:02:32]
Matter fact only thing on his brain was brains.. yeah[00:02:35]
And getting back in his lane, doing his thang[00:02:38]
First he had to find something to slang[00:02:41]
Next stop was his block[00:02:43]
It had the same cops[00:02:44]
Walked right past the same spot where he was shot[00:02:45]
Shocked that some lil' niggas tried to sell him rocks[00:02:48]
It just felt weird being on the opposite[00:02:50]
They figured that he wasn't from there[00:02:53]
So they pulled out and robbed him[00:02:54]
With the same gun they shot him with[00:02:56]
Put it to his head and said "You scared ain't ya?"[00:02:58]
He said: "Hustler for death. No heaven for a gangsta."[00:03:01]
This life goes passing you by[00:03:03]
It might go fast if you lie[00:03:06]
You go and you live then you die...[00:03:08]
O-oh-oh-ohh[00:03:12]
If life goes passing you by[00:03:13]
Don't cry[00:03:16]
If you breaking the rules[00:03:17]
Making your moves[00:03:19]
Paying your dues...[00:03:20]
Chasing the cool[00:03:22]
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool[00:03:31]