JAY-Z - Lucky Me lyrics

How can you fairly assess something
From the outside looking in?
There's gotta be them times you'll be wrong
Nah'mean?
How can a muh'fucka go round and hate a nigga
He never even met that
He don't even know and shit?
I think this rap shit is all beef

Y'all don't even know every day
I'm living with stress
Got up out the streets
You think a nigga could rest
Can't even enjoy myself at a party unless
I'm on the dance floor, hot ass vest
You think I'm freaking these chicks, right?
Try not to brush against they chest
You get a lawsuit for shit 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 fucka but
When I squeeze it hurts
Fine, we'll lose two lives, yours and mines
Gimme any amount of time
Don't let Ms carter grieve
At the funeral parlor
Dripping 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

You only know what you see
You don't understand what it takes to be me

I hate all girls with ulterior motives
That's why I'm 20 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
Niggas wanna strip you to the
Bone for shit you own
Hate a nigga like that, faggot, get your own
Hate that I can't roam the street
Without the clip and chrome
Knowing one day I'ma have to flip, c'mon
You know the shit don't stop
'til the Cris' don't pop
And you have to kill a nigga
And your wrist don't lock i'm trapped
The whole world's against me in fact
But ain't no turning back, bring it on
Hate the price of fame 'cause
It cost too much
Can I live without y'all niggas
Saying I floss too much?
Hate the way you make this
Hate flow all through us
Steady looking for flaws through us, lucky me

You only know what you see
You don't understand what it takes to be me
You only know what you see
(Since I was four years old i been told
Everything that glitters ain't gold)
You only know what you see
You don't understand what it takes to be me
(And now that I've arrived
I see those truths unfold before my
Eyes in a world so cold)

And niggas 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
You're conjuring ways to hem 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
Don't grieve for me, my art remains
Like a dart from the speaker to your heart
Spiritually through the portal now
My words is immortal
Don't plan to leave without a fight
I plant a seed I give life
Though I can't see past the girl's
Greed to call her wife
Next time you're thinking heist
Better be precise 'Cause I'm fully prepared
One of us is gon' leave here
I have no regrets even though
I won't see grow
My godson Boogie, Sonny and Remo, lucky me

You only know what you see
(I been told, since I was 4 years old
Everything that glitters ain't gold
And now that I've arrived)
You don't understand what it takes to be me
(I see those truths unfold before my
Eyes in a world so cold
Since I was 4 years old)
You only know what you see (I been told
Everything that glitters ain't gold
And now that I've arrived)
You don't understand what it takes to be me
(I see those truths unfold before my
Eyes in a world so cold)
You only know what you see
You don't understand what it takes to be me
You only know what you see
You don't understand what it takes to be me
You only know what you see
You don't understand what it takes to be me