started with hanging posters on my bedroom walls
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to battle rapping for status up in the school halls
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just call me double sushi thought I was too raw
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and hip hop was my home, I had my shoes off
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6'3 in high school I skipped the hoop dream
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if I don't blowup then maybe I'll try the school thing
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I went to college to do my family a favor
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but I couldn't pick a major cause I wanted to be ma-jor
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I tried selling work, but it didn't work.
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so I worked - shoppers seen a clerk, fi'n go berserk
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lunch break seen me writing 16's over micky dee's
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skipping class making beats over 60 keys
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and I love it even though I'm just chasing
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selfish ambition couldn't tell your boy naything
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watch out all you rappers cause they filling Lecrae in
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but I was sleeping on the sun like the 'days inn'
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and you could have the money, and you could have the fame.
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but me I want the glory, I'm living for the name
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see life is just a picture, I see outside the frame
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I'm living for the kingdom, and I ain't of the same
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yeah, and I'ma chase that. I'ma I'ma chase that
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found the key to life and best believe that I'ma plate that
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glory I'ma chase that, I'ma I'ma chase that
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glory I'ma chase that, I'ma I'ma chase that
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ugh, I remember chasing the green feeling blue
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only check I'm counting is the mic check (1, 2)
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all I wanted was the money and the fame and the new
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somebody on my arm when I walk inside the room
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all I wanted was doomed, the same kind Alexander the great felt
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when the earth ran out of room
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he conquered all he could but yet he still was consumed
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by this never-ending quest for glory he couldn't fuel
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like a typical fool I would go hard - shooting for the moon
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but there's only one Son, no co-star.
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chasing glory I shouldn't own,
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stead of living to make His name known I'm running after His throne.
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I thought being on TV where everybody could see me
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was nothing short of the easiest way I could see to please me
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I'll never be who I used to desperately want to be,
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I'm too worried bout the Lord getting credit instead of me
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and you could have the money, and you could have the fame.
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but me I want the glory, I'm living for the name
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see life is just a picture, I see outside the frame
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I'm living for the kingdom, and I ain't of the same
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yeah, and I'ma chase that. glory chase that
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found the key to life and best believe that I'ma plate that
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glory I'ma chase that, I'ma I'ma chase that
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glory I'ma chase that, I'ma I'ma chase that
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I used to wanna do it big.
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when you're only focused on yourself - that's small
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and they, they used to tell me as a kid
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that I could do anything that I wanted cept fall
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and now that I recall, I was chasing my goals
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and every time I caught em they multiplied into more
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I never even thought about whether the Lord approved
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call it selfish ambition I call it "I'm making moves"
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but history repeats itself, evil's what it is
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cause lucifer was cast away for doing what I did
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created by the God that spoke the earth into existence
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instead of chasing the Father's glory he was chasing his
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he lies to us all, told Adam he could ball
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"why you following God when you can go get it all?"
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I tell you what's better, or better yet worse.
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chasing your own glory while doing the Lord's work,
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so holla if it hurts, but we were made for greater
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our greatest satisfaction is making His name famous
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so if we're never named among the greatest,
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they don't critically acclaim us,
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ain't nothing to be ashamed of we gave it up for the savior!
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I'ma chase that, I'ma I'ma chase that
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and the Lord's goodness you should you should taste that
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and you ain't living till you're living for His name
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glory I'ma chase that, I'ma I'ma chase that.
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Chase That (Ambition)
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| Lecrae |
