Bright As Stars - Blu & Exile/Aceyalone.mp3

[00:01.613] Crazy, lately how the world is baby
[00:09.115] (You may) have to find a way on your own
[00:15.617] Oh all that glitters ain't gold
[00:19.844] You'll always reap what you sow
[00:26.439] And once you shine, they'll all know
[00:32.599] A South Central state of mind
[00:34.652] Devout Christians and niggas doing time
[00:36.318] Where everybody be trying to shine under that hollywood sign
[00:38.929] I been in line ever since I was six
[00:41.178] I saw Magic and LL and I just wanted to be rich, cause we wasn't
[00:44.657] We was struggling, I never got anything I wanted as a kid
[00:47.961] I would see other kids and get pissed
[00:50.341] Like they got mad gifts for Christmas
[00:52.143] Yo, how did Santa miss us?
[00:53.595] It's time to grow up and get bucks
[00:55.587] Seen these rappers dive them big trucks pulling up to big cribs
[00:58.437] I told my mama that that's how I wanna live
[01:00.855] So I picked up a pen and started rapping bout riches
[01:03.619] Having dreams about prostituting my image to get *****es
[01:06.391] Then I changed it up cause I was lame as ****
[01:08.571] And this rapper ate me up
[01:09.860] Never that, you only after major bucks, you ain't the same as us
[01:13.019] Blu been kicking raps back when kids was kicking snaps
[01:15.402] Eating grandma's chicken bags in the back
[01:16.831] Bout to bust rolling up, thinking of the dopest shit
[01:19.957] I just need to get some beats to get my niggas in the streets
[01:22.738] And yeah we did, but when I bumped into Exile, I realized
[01:25.677] That it's about getting respect and not the checks
[01:28.197] Now I checked out a bunch of shit I slept on and kept making songs
[01:31.589] Hoping one day I would catch on, then I wrote my best songs
[01:34.876] Expressing the truth about my adolescence
[01:36.948] That's when blessings start falling from the heavens, like
[01:39.560] Crazy, lately how the world is baby
[01:47.510] (You may) have to find a way on your own
[01:53.677] Oh all that glitters ain't gold
[01:58.333] You'll always reap what you sow
[02:04.716] And once you shine, they'll all know
[02:12.800] I remember when Hip Hop was the only soley thing I had to do, that young Aceyalonely one
[02:17.954] And everyone that know me so I feel of a can
[02:20.488] Tried to do a back spin on my head and my hand
[02:22.859] Even got two records to blend, was a fan till I seen a mic right on a stand
[02:28.060] And that's right, they understand, yo we made it a lifestyle
[02:30.943] The wildstyle freestyle finally I'm nice now
[02:33.756] Wow, tell em to pipe down
[02:35.319] Still never compares to that incredible right now
[02:39.096] That on the spot beat rocks, I get a rush
[02:41.731] With the world on my shoulder and love in my clutch
[02:44.675] Doing too much to touch us, way more than golden
[02:47.170] Roses on the stage when the last show closes
[02:50.058] Rolling to the steel drag right on the asphalt
[02:52.683] Thanking my lucky stars that I'm here for the last part
[02:55.369] The art, the last should be right at the start
[02:57.974] Leimert Park, lying heart, that's a circle of sharks
[03:00.742] Off the charts just to be a never forgotten we keep rockin
[03:04.346] Tamahawk talking the stocking the new concoction
[03:07.262] And building blocks in when the beautiful mile is the only option to not be in a box or a coffin
[03:18.016] Crazy, lately how the world is baby
[03:25.670] (You may) have to find a way on your own
[03:31.975] Oh all that glitters ain't gold
[03:37.156] You'll always reap what you sow
[03:42.656] And once you shine, they'll all know
[03:50.176] A revelation to the world (it's never been fine)
[03:56.010] Only when it's blackened out (can you see the stars)
[04:01.323] I dream in blackness
[04:06.483] I'm the brilliant brightest light shining in blackness
[04:11.736] I dream, I dream, I dream, I dream
[04:17.172] I'm the brilliant brightest light and I shine
[04:22.686] A revalation to the world (it's never been fine)
[04:28.455] You may shine in Hollywood (I shine on Crenshaw)
[04:34.030] I dream (blackness)
[04:39.469] I'm the brilliant brightest light shining in blackness
[04:44.606] I dream, I dream, I dream, I dream
[04:49.799] I'm the brilliant brightest light and I shine
[05:29.612] Blue is one of the most beautiful colors in the world
[05:31.917] The sky is blue, you got a clear day, people pour out to the beach, the water's blue, it's green without pollution, and everybody's having fun
[05:38.014] How do you associate blue with such a sad, slumped down [?] state of unhappiness? That's not the blues, those are the clouds