Kanye West - Say You Will (Kid O...

[Verse]

Welcome to the first chapter

You haven't missed a thing, as I slowly gather

Pieces of information linked, but currently scattered

I wrote some notes on stones with other stones shattered

Most of your questions I cannot answer

This prehistoric era doesn't have a lead to what becomes after

I know where it starts, but where does it end?

While I scramble to figure it out, I represent,

A new meaning of the word, life

We don't live just to make it, we live to see the light

Take the wrongs, make them all right

Never focus on the past life

Becoming someone you don't even recognize

Due to a new and improved self with your own advice

To never back down and win every fight

Nothing matters on the other side

23, still with a dream, yet to become successful

Now that I'm older, ambition is on a different level

Stared down the road, then took the one with the most pebbles

It ain't nothing, I promise I'll make it more suspenseful

Got nothing but a pocket full of gravel

Yet to cash it in for gold, the story will unravel

My book won't have a cover by the time it is completed

How will you know where I started if you don't ever read it?

If you battle with me, then say you will-

Read every page, the testimony I spill

My will and testament, open up every element

Find messages with relevance, perpetual resonance

Taste the salt from your tears

Swallow them in remembrance of me and all of my years

Even now that I'm livin', you don't need my permission

I'm working with the scraps I've been given

I am my newest edition

Life, I'm getting a better taste of it

We don't know what death is until we come face to face with it

I'm still young, so it shouldn't even be discussed

That's exactly what they want to put me in a rut

So I would spend the rest of my time digging my grave

Society, you STILL haven't made me a slave!

I'm low key defying the odds

Because I'm underground, heading north of the rocks

Am I a classic? In 10 years, will I still matter?

Am I a Grammy? Will I still exist to you forever?

I try to focus on the now, but I overthink

And overthinking can put you out on the brink

While one man’s trash is another man’s treasure,

One man's pain is another man's pleasure

Taking from the poor, bathing in your own cheddar

Feeding off the hurt, thinking, "Now I feel better."

Put yourself in another's shoes for once

You ain't nothing to a brotha who eats goons for lunch

You're only taking the plunge, all I smell is disgust

You're a first round pick that turned into a bust

You need to see the dark side of you in the mirror

So you see how ugly it is, your inner grew bitter

And now it shows on the outside

You were about to let it slide right into your demise

The death of your innocence, no lie

They throw away the rotten piece of the pie

"I never meant to make your daughter cry."

You should've thought of it first-hand, now pay the price