[00:31.23]May the Lord have mercy on my soul [00:35.87]Forgive me for my fetishes my purchases my clothes [00:39.99]Allow me to catch my rhythm so the nervousness just goes [00:43.68]That's why I sound so certain in my verses and my flows [00:46.89] [00:47.58]The verbiage just gets merciless [00:49.36]The wordsmithness just rolls [00:51.44]I've tuned into my pertinence [00:53.12]My purposes my goals [00:55.22]The feeling when you realize you've been working for your foes [00:58.86]And the curtains have just opened and they worthlessness exposed [01:02.64]You remember where you've came from where the purses was stole [01:06.46]There was nothing in the oven and just work up on the stove [01:10.29]And you blossomed from the bottom [01:12.24]Yeah you worked with it and rose [01:14.16]From nothing to a dozen and a garden now there grows [01:17.86]Tell 'em [01:18.34]Courage under fire gave me a brave heart (That's me) [01:22.02]Courage under fire gave me a brave heart [01:25.69](Yessir) Brave heart [01:27.59](Yeah I got that) Brave heart [01:29.69](You know) Brave heart [01:32.05]May the Lord have mercy on my soul [01:36.97]Like shows keep cushion where I land [01:39.81]Keep the devil off my heels [01:41.55]But please keep me on my toes [01:44.40]Like a reposessor checking for everything I drove [01:48.27]Like I owe but I don't [01:50.29]Paid my dues from the go [01:52.04]Doing donuts in the dome [01:54.14]Keep my shoes on the floor [01:55.94]Revered by the rich [01:57.70]Plus approved by the poor [01:59.79]I been sped up where they sniff it [02:01.78]And screwed up where they pour [02:03.65]See I flew so way up high [02:05.32]And I SCUBA'd way down low [02:07.29]Put the top down on my fears [02:09.16]Put the roof up on my woes [02:11.36]I dropped that food and liquor to put you up on my stove [02:15.00]They shoplifted and stole [02:16.85]That just let me know they know [02:18.82]That was Lupe 1 now this version 4 [02:22.54]And I still feel like a virgin me versus the globe [02:26.43]From the surface to the cove [02:28.40]I took on the biggest wave [02:30.29]And I surfed it to the shore with no pomade in my fro [02:34.09]Took the wood from the slave ships and furnished my abode [02:37.86]Now that boat is now my bed [02:39.62]Desk dressers and my drawers [02:41.81]Now that's a house of pain [02:44.07]Plus I use nooses when I hang up all my clothes [02:47.52]Couldn't change up if I chose [02:49.28]That's me [02:49.95]Courage under fire gave me a brave heart [02:53.44]Courage under fire gave me a brave heart [02:56.98](Yessir) Brave heart [02:58.88](Yeah I got that) Brave heart [03:01.08](You know) Brave heart [03:03.41] [03:05.03]Brave heart [03:08.97] [03:12.79](Yessir) Brave heart [03:14.21](Yeah I got that) Brave heart [03:16.31](You know) Brave heart [03:18.66]May the Lord have [03:22.14]Mercy on my soul