Lupe Fiasco - Valleys lyrics

Pharaoh, pharaoh? Pharaoh

Dollar mission, Mississippi Masala getting
Guava Casaba melons
Getting a spot at competition
Titties and teeth, so silly of me, no really
It’s free aye you can use the phone
Like a new computer wand
That’s an Ethernet pun
Cause dial-up’s all done
When it took twenty minutes
Just to download one
Aye, you got a fine face
Also a dime in your behind
Please can I find some time
Space to find base
Kinds of rhymes to describe
How you’re designed great
And maybe remove the mind freight
Like it’s overhead cranes at the train yard
That Tom Cruise used in the
War of the World's
Before the aliens came part
Remember that? Oh, not a fan of the sci-fi?
Like dial-up’s not a fan of the wi-fi
I’m in your eyes like little
Reflective little pools of tie-dye
And it’s 1972 and I’m some
Long haired high guy
Driving a Volkswagen Beetle off
Into the California twilight
I usually got top cause I’m a guy right
But if you’re gay that’s straight too
Hey, I don’t hate
I got a couple of friends who went bi twice
Did that arrive right?
Do you like whole stories
Or just the highlights
Cause I like to write your
Life story on the sky
Made of Lite Brites, remember those?
Ten years old, let me guess your age
You were a ten, ten years ago
Am I right, who you calling?
Maybe New Orleans where your mother lives
With your brother's kids
Cause he locked up cause
Of what some other motherfucker did
Love to fib 'bout the Fibonacci sequence
Do you flicker like Liberace Sequins
Or maybe twinkle like little stars
And tingle like little scars
I run a wrinkle with you like a car hood
And crash test and beat-box while we rewrite
Saul Williams doing the slam set
Then wrap like saran over the pan
Keep the yams fresh, sweet
Five different songs
Over five different beats
And this one’s called Valley
I wrote it on the plane in
The chair by the galley
On the way to Cali, chicken in the salad
Sounds like a ballad
You loyal, so I’m Khaled
Buy your momma a palace
Scratch that, buy your momma what matters
Data says dollars hotter than two Nevadas
Burning hole in the pockets
And in the wallets of all the rappers
Trappers attracting all the
Yellowbone Instagrammers but what about us?

Pharaoh, Pharaoh, Pharaoh

It burns inside like lactic acid
Exorcise demons, turn them into gods
Turning in the rods for the
Bags of the catfish
I don’t believe that God is a black man
Spoiled child getting robbed for
His black mans
Mars and other stars in the CAT scans
Back when I listened to Killah Priest
Had my mind thicker and
Bigger than Philip Heath
Walking round in kufis with
Sunnis with dhikr beads
Remembering the movies my duty
Was killing beats
Social villain unwilling to live in peace
I told you children I’m
Wielding a living beast
Streets, this is where Helen and Ellen meet
So you can get lost like
Gilligan on the beach
The players getting mad they not
Kicking it with the freaks
Cause they took away they pussy and
Giving it to the geeks
Like us, paradigm shifter
South Carolina Nine shrine shine giver
But not enough dimes to be
A crime line tipper
The difference between "nigga", and "niggar"
Uh, Bernie Sanders need a Nike deal
Then I might consider that he might be real
If Phil Knight knight him
Then I might like him until then children
Enjoy the white icing on the cake
Cake, cake, cake, cake
On the cake, cake, cake, cake, cake
On the cake, cake, cake, cake, cake
On the cake, cake, cake, cake, cake
Yeah, yeah, pharaoh, height, yeah

What you need a little more? Okay
I’ll give-I'll give you a little
More, I’ll give you a little
More maybe like, like, yeah, yeah
Freestyle off the top
Sitting on the stool on the block
Watching for the cops, watching
For the thots, watching for the shots
I’m watching for a lot
I gotta use my eyes cause they use me
Cause to them I’m like a price
So I say surprises
And they don’t deprive us, I just demise us
And nothing ever lies yes, on my premisises
Watched for my demises
Maybe might like them
Until then just enjoy the white
Icing on the cake cake, cake, cake, cake
The cake, cake, cake, cake, cake
The cake, cake, cake, cake, cake
The cake, cake, cake, cake, cake

Ameri-cake, cake, cake, cake, cake
The cake, cake, cake, cake, cake
The cake, cake, cake, cake, cake
The cake, cake, cake, cake, cake
Ameri- the cake, cake, cake, cake, cake
The cake, cake, cake, cake, cake
The cake, cake, cake, cake, cake
The cake, cake, cake, cake, cake
Ameri-cake, cake, cake, cake, cake