Cold World

Lupe Fiasco · Other Songs - Lupe Fiasco

Verse 1



Its just the talk of the town

Coming from the mouth of the hood

The Jaws of Life

I bare arms

Crack my paws and write

Laws an rights

Rules an regulations

Tubes and medication

Fools who speculating

Did he leave it in his car?

Little did you know

You've been bleeding from the start

I ain't waiting on the shots

I'm leaving on ya mark

Get ready

5th steady

96 heavy

wait/wieght nigga

waiste/waste bigger

aids slicker

sharp niggas get head shots

make flippers

great whipper

Bavarian Motorola

my voice streams

lakes, rivers

constant

keep spitting on the solders

If non sense is ya conscience

your sitting on your shoulders

wether Gucci loafing

or walking on air

spitting on mines or talking about theres



Verse two

I'm just playing my part

Life is a chick

run my fingers through her hair

while she play in my part

and IM never ending

cause i'm staying at start

plus i need a vehicle to be conveying my thoughts

I add my purveyor of talk

seller of words

merchant of speak

saying of thoughts

player of soughts

but i cant walk you

nor will i cross you

never been a player of sports

you gota be upright to walk

upnights to work

down right to worship

sunlights to dark

down right converse

and they wonder what keeps me going

like perpetual motion

its just incredible devotion

and they telling you promotion

If you dont know what to say in flow

Just dont make a sound like the K in known/no



Verse 3

Listen to the hustler babble

Little dudes wanna tie me down like gulliver's travels

I got it mummified

they unraveled

Paper towels

just thumb tacks and a run flat

I will not go down

maintain my speed

can not slow down

stay in my seat like Rosa parks

he came back busing now ain't that something now

ya wanna sit where he sit

but ya folding chairs that boy is ski lift

Ever since I crawled on the block

I been up there had to fall to the top

this my say in a cold baray

All a dude got like Jay cosea?

and im not letting it Go I mastered this

and gota keep spelling it out for yall like FABOLOUS