Lupe Fiasco - Cold War Lyrics
[Featuring: Jane $$$][Verse 1]At my brother's JanazahTears stained sunglasssesA Salat with no bowsPallbearer carry you to the car nowChilly day, Mosque on 96 and 3rdNew York City way, me and Jay never left my sideRest like that picture with your prideWho look just like..Now the city looks less brightBrooklyn looking less specialDon't carry the same weightAs when you were on this levelYou: work in progress from 40 projects, God blessAn inspiration and a kingThey won't know what I mean but this one 'bout to springProtect it with every feather on the wingsSo even when it hurts, you'll never feel a thing[Hook]Said it's a cold cold warAin't nobody wins like the governmentIn the U.S.S.RCause this is all for sharesNobody caresWho you think you areAnd you can fight it, but there's no defenseFor what things areBaby grab a jacketIt's a cold, cold...[Verse 2]Let me clarify the chorusAnd what my cold war isCause the complexity is enormousUsing one of my greatest losses with eyes like faucetsTo reinforce every single word that I talk withSomething about losing things, human beingsThat reduces things to their most elementaryFind yourself where you never meant to beWith the energy of memoriesThat's the soul force of what's behind killing meFinding pleasure in the painsLike finding desert in the rainTwisted: how this world can drive you masochisticQuestion if I'm over itOr if I'm numb because I'm closurelessOr my closure's that we all gotta go and shitRendered emotionless but moving at the speed of running over itStill happy that I opened it[Hook][Verse 3]In the studio writing these words, one after anotherIn memorial of my brotherAs you listen to the album withNothing on the coverI imagine that he hoversIn the back of his chairFloating right there in the airNodding his head to the music, I slightly lose itAsk why do I put myself through thisCrack a smile, look up at the fileThe waveforms on the screen of me tryna tell you what I meanBut I feel that it's all lost, or maybe that it's all gotta crossHappy with his dedicated songBut now he's all goneBut he was never there, causeHe was everywhere, nowhere and down hereMaybe on that judgement day, rise upWe'll both open our eyes up, climb upHoping God forgives us for our tendenciesWipes away our cool young histories[Hook][Outro]Ride around, you know what I'm sayingAll over the world right? I mean, everywhereI mean we just disappear and just come backI feel like we can just put him anywhereHe'd find his way back home, y'know'm sayingAnother random thing's that consequence to meBut maybe to you, not muchBut with that said, the reason behind meWhy I do what I does, loveJust riding around bumping that, uhEither Jay or Nas, or meI used to tell him like "yeah you alright"But you ain't *****ing with my manIt was always like that, soDrop a little for you, let it bumpThis that Esco music, it's that Esco musicBumping with my Esco music, that rawSee you on the other side, As-Salamu Alaykum
