[00:08.57]I done been through a whole lot
[00:10.31]Trial, tribulations, but I know God
[00:12.25]Satan wanna put me in a bow-tie
[00:14.06]Praying that the holy water don't go dry
[00:15.78]
[00:16.72]As I look around me
[00:18.01]So many mother******s wanna down me
[00:19.94]But ain't no ************* never drown me
[00:21.46]In front of a dirty double-mirror they found me
[00:23.37]And I love myself
[00:24.90](The world is a ghetto with guns and picket signs)
[00:27.53]I love myself
[00:28.40](But it can do what it want
[00:29.88]whenever it wants and I don't mind)
[00:31.59]I love myself
[00:32.43](He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
[00:35.30]I love myself
[00:36.85](One day at the time, sun gon' *************ne)
[00:39.23]Everybody looking at you crazy (Crazy)
[00:40.92]What you gon' do? (What you gon' do?)
[00:42.48]
[00:42.99]Lift up your head and keep moving (Keep moving)
[00:45.46]Or let the paranoia haunt you? (Haunt you)
[00:47.14]Peace to fa*************on police, I wear my heart
[00:49.07]On my sleeve, let the runway start
[00:51.06]You know the miserable do love company
[00:53.01]What do you want from me and my scars?
[00:54.98]Everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidence
[00:57.47]How many times our potential was anonymous?
[00:59.58]How many times the city making me promises?
[01:01.60]So I promise this
[01:02.79]And I love myself
[01:03.55]
[01:04.30](The world is a ghetto with guns and picket signs)
[01:06.63]I love myself
[01:08.01](But it can do what it want
[01:09.34]whenever it wants and I don't mind)
[01:10.80]I love myself
[01:11.76](He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
[01:14.37]I love myself
[01:16.04](One day at the time, sun gon' *************ne)
[01:18.48]They wanna say there's a war
[01:19.59]outside and a bomb in the street
[01:21.01]And a gun in the hood and a mob of police
[01:22.96]And a rock on the corner and a line full of fiends
[01:24.89]And a bottle full of lean
[01:25.87]and a model on a scheme, yup
[01:27.12]
[01:28.05]These days of frustration,
[01:29.48]keep y'all on ducking rotation
[01:31.35]
[01:31.98]I duck these gold faces,
[01:33.26]post up fee-fi-fo-fum basis
[01:35.66]Dreams of realities peace,
[01:37.24]blow steam in the face of the beast
[01:38.47]The sky can fall down, the wind can cry now
[01:40.70]The strong in me, I still smile
[01:42.23]And I love myself
[01:43.51](The world is a ghetto with guns and picket signs)
[01:46.24]I love myself
[01:47.25](But it can do what it want
[01:48.55]whenever it wants and I don't mind)
[01:50.19]I love myself
[01:51.34](He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
[01:53.97]I love myself
[01:55.52](One day at the time, sun gon' *************ne)
[01:58.25]Walk my bare feet (Walk my bare feet)
[02:02.58]Down, down valley peak (Down, down valley peak)
[02:05.86]I keep my fee-fi-fo-fum (Fee-fi-fo-fum)
[02:10.01]I keep my heart undone (My heart undone)
[02:14.23]And I love myself
[02:15.15](The world is a ghetto with guns and picket signs)
[02:17.83]I love myself
[02:18.67](But it can do what it want
[02:20.04]whenever it wants and I don't mind)
[02:21.76]I love myself
[02:22.75](He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)
[02:25.36]I love myself
[02:27.14](One day at the time, sun gon' *************ne)
[02:29.58]I went to war last night
[02:31.00]
[02:33.99]With an automatic weapon,
[02:34.76]don't nobody call a medic
[02:35.63]Imma do it 'til I get it right,
[02:37.60]I went to war last night
[02:38.81]
[02:41.81]I've been dealing with depression
[02:42.58]ever since an adolescent
[02:43.44]Duckin' every other blessin',
[02:44.54]l can never see the message
[02:45.50]I can never take the lead,
[02:46.50]I can never bob and weave
[02:47.47]For my ************* that be letting 'em annihilate me
[02:48.92]
[02:49.73]And the sound is moving in a meteor speed
[02:51.54]From a hundred to a billion,
[02:52.50]lay my body in the street
[02:53.36]Keep my money in the ceiling,
[02:54.33]let my mama know I'm free
[02:55.23]Give my story to the children and
[02:56.41]the lesson they can read
[02:57.37]And the glory to the feeling of the only unseen
[02:59.31]Seen enough, make a mother****** scream,
[03:00.92]"I love myself!"
[03:01.97]
[03:03.05]I lost my head, I've must misread
[03:06.50]
[03:07.02]what the good book said
[03:08.67]Oh woes keep me, it's a jungle inside
[03:12.81]Give myself again 'til the well runs dry
[03:17.11]