Rapsody - Crown lyrics

Hey, hey you there - where's your crown?
You didn't leave the house without
Your crown did you?
Just as sure as the earth is round
We bounce back up when they throw us down
So don't forget your crown
And hold your head high
Like you caught a glimpse of
God through the clouds and you stuck in awe
Don't worry we got y'all
Mind and body, body and mind, tell 'em homies
The world is bigger than your street and mine
And that colour and this
And every shade of our skin is rich
Knowing your future depends
On our involvement
So, block boys, block boys
It's in our hands more than Parliament
The gun can kill or the gun can save
Rather congratulate a stage than carry
Him to a grave that's responsibility
My brother's keeper my sister's big sister
Life full of lemons we just gotta
Add a little sugar to to those sweet dreams
You can be anything
Go farther than me, be better than him
Climb higher than her
And never ever let em knock your crown
That's my word all hands on deck
Making kings and queens of all cards we dealt
Jamla, Roc Nation let's go

I lied to mama one time when I was eleven
Riding in the car she told me
Something I won't forget it
Truth gon' chase the light no matter
What night that you said it
It make me feel so low
She peeled my feelings back like lettuce
With no salad told me save all
Of the carriage for the ballads
Now I'm dropping jewels as if we
Gave up on the marriage
I know it's hard to handle we
Ain't came here in no carriage
The hood is for the rain
And where they throw us is the barracks
Where we learn to master beats without
A panther or a ferret
It came out in the '80s same
As me I was a baby
And what I learned 'bout life is: Lord
Is sure is not the fairest
If your skin ain't as fair
As all the Beckys, Tiffanys, and Sarahs
Black don't crack, Obama ain't flinch
I sat inside that White
House having conversations
How boys turn to men if we
Show 'em more than the rims
If they jumping high for the rims
Ain't a goal that we cannot win
I'm setting picks for you and them
I hope you roll off million black graduates
Woo! Just go and show off
Reaching out to everyone from the
Top to block y'all
Lemonade pitchers we grew up with
What's a curve ball?
Made something out of nothing
Better out of worse take care of your own
I know I gotta do that first
I know there's power in my time
I know there's power in a verse
Tell a kid good job and tell
Him go hard on the work
You know the world you grew up in
Is very small compared to Earth
It's the worst they lied and told
You your limit's on the future
Y'all can brush it off though
Came back around and groom ya
Me, Alicia, Talib, Busta, everyone
And you ya, agh!
In life there ain't no rules, rule
Whatever you dream you can do, do
They tell me I'm a king!
They tell me I'm a queen!
In life there ain't no rules, rule
Whatever you dream you can do, do
They tell me I'm a king!
They tell me I'm a queen!