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Lucky Me

Song by Jay-Z
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How can you fairly assess something from the outside looking in?

Majority of the time you`ll be wrong. Nah Mean?

How can a mother f**ka go round and hate a n*gga

he never even met that he dont even know and sh*t?

I think this rap sh*t is all peaches...

Y`all dont even know every day I`m livin with stress

Got up out the streets you think a n*gga could rest

Can`t even enjoy myself at a party unless

I`m on the dance floor hot ass vest

You think I`m freakin` these chicks right?

I`try not to brush against they chest

You get a lawsuit for sh*t like that, I feel trapped

Swear to everything when I leave this earth

It`s gon` be on both feet, never knees in the dirt

You could try me f**ka but when I squeeze it hurts, fine

We`ll lose two lives, yours and mines

Gimme any amount of time dont let Ms. Carter grieve

at the funeral parlor drippin` tears on my sleeve

Told the judge didn`t budge it was him or me

and I ain`t trying to be hard but I`m guilty as charged

Put my mercy on this court and my faith in God

And pray hard none of my nephews wanna be stars...Lucky Me

Chorus: Karen Anderson

You only know what you see,

You dont understand what it takes to be me.

I hate all girls with ulterior motives

That`s why I`m twenty plus years old, no sons no daughters

Hate putting my life in the hands of fake promoters

Hear the hate in my voice right? I hate that you noticed

n*ggas wanna strip to the bone for sh*t you own

Hate a n*gga like that faggot, get your own

Hate that I can`t roam the street without the clip and chrome

Knowing one day Im`a have to flip, c`mon

You know the sh*t don`t stop `til the Crist don`t pop

And you have to kill a n*gga and your wrist don`t lock

I`m trapped the whole worlds against me in fact,

It aint no turning back. Bring It On

Hate the price of fame cause it cost too much

Can I live without y`all n*ggas saying I floss too much?

Hate the way you make this hate flow all through us

Steady looking for flaws through us.... Lucky Me

Chorus: Karen Anderson, Jay-Z

You only know what you see,

You dont understand what it takes to be me

You only know what you see,

(Since I was 4 years old, I been told, everything that glitters ain`t gold)

You dont understand what it takes to be me

(And now that I`ve arrived

I see those truths unfold before my eyes in this world so cold)

n*gga see you in the street, pretend to be friendly

But I know any type of success breeds envy

I know in the back of your mind your conjuring ways to hen me

Leave my friends in a circle pouring out Henny

But G`s is heaven bound so how I`m gon` receive

Anything y`all pour to the ground next time throw it up

And ain`t nothing changed so even in my afterlife I show it up

Dont grieve for me my art remains

like a dart from the speaker to your heart

Spiritually through the portal now my words as immortal

Plan to leave without a fight I plant a seed I give life

Though I can`t see past the girls greed to call her wife

Next time your thinking heist better be precise

Cause I`m fully prepared. One of us is gon` leave here

I have no regrets even though I wanna see grow

My godsons Boogie, Sonny and Rimo

Chorus x 4

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Alternative Versions

Release History

Disc Track Album Year
1 0 vol.1 ... In My Lifetime Album 1997
1 7 In My Lifetime Vol. 1 Album 1997
1 7 In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 Studio Album 1997
1 25 Original Album Classics
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