[00:00:00] Artist: Lupe Fiasco [00:00:03] Title: Cold War(feat Jane $$$) [00:00:26] At my brother's Janazah [00:00:28] Tears stained sunglassses [00:00:31] A Salat with no bows [00:00:33] Pallbearer carry you to the car now [00:00:36] Chilly day Mosque on 96 and 3rd [00:00:40] New York City way me and Jay never left my side [00:00:45] Rest like that picture with your pride [00:00:47] Who look just like [00:00:50] Now the city looks less bright [00:00:53] Brooklyn looking less special [00:00:55] Don't carry the same weight [00:00:56] As when you were on this level [00:00:58] You: work in progress from 40 projects God bless [00:01:06] An inspiration and a king [00:01:08] They won't know what I mean but this one 'bout to spring [00:01:12] Protect it with every feather on the wings [00:01:14] So even when it hurts you'll never feel a thing [00:01:16] Said it's a cold cold war [00:01:19] Ain't nobody wins like the government [00:01:23] In the U S S R [00:01:26] Cause this is all for shares [00:01:27] Nobody cares [00:01:29] Who you think you are [00:01:32] And you can fight it but there's no defense [00:01:36] For what things are [00:01:40] Baby grab a jacket [00:01:42] It's a cold cold [00:01:43] Let me clarify the chorus [00:01:44] And what my cold war is [00:01:47] Cause the complexity is enormous [00:01:50] Using one of my greatest losses with eyes like faucets [00:01:54] To reinforce every single word that I talk with [00:01:58] Something about losing things human beings [00:02:00] That reduces things to their most elementary [00:02:04] Find yourself where you never meant to be [00:02:08] With the energy of memories [00:02:10] That's the soul force of what's behind killing me [00:02:14] Finding pleasure in the pains [00:02:16] Like finding desert in the rain [00:02:18] Twisted: how this world can drive you masochistic [00:02:22] Question if I'm over it [00:02:24] Or if I'm numb because I'm closureless [00:02:26] Or my closure's that we all gotta go and shit [00:02:29] Rendered emotionless but moving at the speed of running over it [00:02:33] Still happy that I opened it [00:02:34] Said it's a cold cold war [00:02:36] Ain't nobody wins like the government [00:02:39] In the U S S R [00:02:43] Cause this is all for shares [00:02:44] Nobody cares [00:02:46] Who you think you are [00:02:49] And you can fight it but there's no defense [00:02:52] For what things are [00:02:57] Baby grab a jacket [00:02:58] It's a cold cold [00:03:00] In the studio writing these words [00:03:02] One after another [00:03:02] In memorial of my brother [00:03:04] As you listen to the album with [00:03:06] Nothing on the cover [00:03:07] I imagine that he hovers [00:03:09] In the back of his chair [00:03:11] Floating right there in the air [00:03:12] Nodding his head to the music I slightly lose it [00:03:16] Ask why do I put myself through this [00:03:19] Crack a smile look up at the file [00:03:22] The waveforms on the screen of me tryna tell you what I mean [00:03:26] But I feel that it's all lost [00:03:28] Or maybe that it's all gotta cross [00:03:31] Happy with his dedicated song [00:03:33] But now he's all gone [00:03:35] But he was never there cause [00:03:37] He was everywhere nowhere and down here [00:03:40] Maybe on that judgement day rise up [00:03:43] We'll both open our eyes up climb up [00:03:46] Hoping God forgives us for our tendencies [00:03:49] Wipes away our cool young histories [00:03:50] Said it's a cold cold war [00:03:53] Ain't nobody wins like the government [00:03:56] In the U S S R [00:03:59] Cause this is all for shares [00:04:01] Nobody cares [00:04:03] Who you think you are [00:04:06] And you can fight it [00:04:07] But there's no defense [00:04:09] For what things are [00:04:14] Baby grab a jacket [00:04:15] It's a cold cold [00:04:19] Ride around you know what I'm saying [00:04:22] All over the world right I mean everywhere [00:04:27] I mean we just disappear and just come back