Que reflejan tu mirada
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La noche, tu y yo
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I got this fire burnin' in me from within
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Concentrated thoughts on who I used to be, I'm sheddin' skin
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Every day, a new version of me, a third of me demented, cemented in pain
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Juggling opposing kinds of fame
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I don't know how to make friends, I'm a lonely soul
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I recollect this isolation, I was four years old
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Truth be told, I've been battling my soul
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Tryna navigate the real and fake
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Cynical about the judgement day
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I did bad, slight progression last year and it fucked me up
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Reincarnated on this earth for a hundred plus
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Body after body, lesson after lesson, let's take it back to Michigan in 1947
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My father kicked me out the house 'cause I wouldn't listen to him
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I didn't care about his influence, only loved what I was doing
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Gifted as a musician, I played guitar on the grand level
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The most talented where I'm from, but I had to rebel
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And so I'm off in the sunset, searchin' for my place in the world
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With my guitar up on my hip, that's the story unfurled
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I found myself with a pocket full of money and a whole lot of respect
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While the record business loved me
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I was head of rhythm and blues
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The women that fell to they feet, so many to choose
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But I manipulated power as I lied to the masses
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Died with my money, gluttony was too attractive, reincarnated
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Another life had placed me as a Black woman in the Chitlin' Circuit
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Seductive vocalist as the promoter hit the curtains
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My voice was angelic, straight from heaven, the crowd sobbed
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A musical genius what the articles emphasized
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Had everything I wanted, but I couldn't escape addiction
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Heroin needles had me in fetal position, restricted
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Turned on my family, I went wherever cameras be
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Cocaine, no private planes for my insanity
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Self-indulged, discipline never been my sentiments
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I needed drugs, to me, an 8-ball was like penicillin
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Fuck love, my happiness was in that brown sugar
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Sex and melodies gave me hope when nobody's lookin'
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My first assistant was a small town scholar
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Never did a Quaalude 'til I got myself around her
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My daddy looked the other way, he saw sin in me
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I died with syringes pinched in me, reincarnated
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My present life is Kendrick Lamar
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A rapper looking at the lyrics to keep you in awe
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The only factor I respected was raisin' the bar
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My instincts sent material straight to the charts, huh
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My father kicked me out the house, I finally forgive him
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I'm old enough to understand the way I was livin'
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Ego and pride had me looking at him with resentment
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I close my eyes, hoping that I don't come off contentious
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I'm yelling, "Father, did I finally get it right?" Everything I did was selfless
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I spoke freely, when the people needed me, I helped them
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I didn't gloat, even told 'em, "No," when the vultures came
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Took control of my fleshly body when the money changed
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Son, you do well, but your heart is closed
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I can tell residue that linger from your past creates a cell
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Father, I'm not perfect, I got urges, but I hold them down
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But your pride has to die," okay, Father, show me how
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Tell me every deed that you done and what you do it for
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I kept one hundred institutions paid
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Okay, tell me more
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I put one hundred hoods on one stage
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Okay, tell me more
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I'm tryna push peace in L.A.
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But you love war
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No, I don't
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Oh, yes, you do
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Okay, then tell me the truth
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Every individual is only a version of you
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How can they forgive when there's no forgiveness in your heart?
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I could tell you where I'm going
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I could tell you who you are
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You fell out of Heaven 'cause you was anxious
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Didn't like authority, only searched to be heinous
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Isaiah fourteen was the only thing that was prevalent
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My greatest music director was you
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It was colors, it was pinks, it was reds, it was blues
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It was harmony and motion
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I sent you down to earth 'cause you was broken
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Rehabilitation, not psychosis
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But now we here now
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Centuries you manipulated man with music
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Embodied you as superstars to see how you moving
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You came a long way from garnishing evilish views
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And all I ever wanted from you was love and approval
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I learned a lot, no more putting these people in fear
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The more that word is diminished, the more it's not real
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The more light that I can capture, the more I can feel
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I'm using words for inspiration as an idea
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So can you promise that you won't take your gifts for granted?
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I promise that I'll use my gifts to bring understanding
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For every man, woman and child, how much can you vow?
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I vow my life just to live one in harmony now
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You crushed a lot of people keeping their thoughts in captivity
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And I'm ashamed that I ever created that enemy
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Then let's rejoice where we at
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I rewrote the devil's story just to take our power back, 'carnated
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reincarnated
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| Kendrick Lamar |
