Lucky Me

Song Lucky Me
Artist Jay-Z
Album In My Lifetime, Vol. 1

Lyrics

[00:11.25] How can you fairly assess something from the outside looking in
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[00:15.28] There's gotta be them times you'll be wrong nah mean
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[00:19.19] How can a mother****er go round and hate a nigga
[00:21.64] He never even met that he don't even know and shit
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[00:24.73] I think this rap shit is all beef
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[00:28.62] Y'all don't even know every day I'm living with stress
[00:31.65] Got up out the streets you think a nigga could rest
[00:33.94] Can't even enjoy myself at a party unless
[00:36.56] I'm on the dance floor hot ass vest
[00:38.55] You think I'm freakin' these chicks right
[00:40.25] Try not to brush against they chest
[00:41.97] You get a lawsuit for shit like that I feel trapped
[00:44.85] Swear to everything when I leave this earth
[00:47.00] It's gon' be on both feet never knees in the dirt
[00:49.73] You could try me ****a but when I squeeze it hurts fine
[00:52.85] We'll lose two lives yours and mines
[00:54.81] Gimme any amount of time don't let Ms Carter grieve
[00:57.43] At the funeral parlor drippin' tears on my sleeve
[01:00.18] Told the judge didn't budge it was him or me
[01:02.82] And I ain't trying to be hard but I'm guilty as charged
[01:05.28] Put my mercy on this court and my faith in God
[01:07.77] And pray hard none of my nephews wanna be stars Lucky Me
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[01:11.96] You only know what you see
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[01:15.86] You don't understand what it takes to be me
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[01:21.34] I hate all girls with alterior motives
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[01:23.77] That's why I'm twenty plus years old no sons no daughters
[01:26.29] Hate putting my life in the hands of fake promoters
[01:28.78] Hear the hate in my voice right I hate that you noticed
[01:31.61] Niggas wanna strip to the bone for shit you own
[01:34.10] Hate a nigga like that fagot get your own
[01:36.64] Hate that I can't roam the street without the clip and chrome
[01:39.22] Knowing one day I'ma have to flip c'mon
[01:41.81] You know the shit don't stop 'til the Crist don't pop
[01:44.56] And you have to kill a nigga and your wrist don't lock
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[01:47.45] I'm trapped the whole worlds against me in fact
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[01:50.07] It ain't no turning back Bring It On
[01:52.44] Hate the price of fame cause it cost too much
[01:54.89] Can I live without y'all niggas saying I floss too much
[01:57.54] Hate the way you make this hate flow all through us
[02:00.17] Steady looking for flaws through us lucky me
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[02:03.95] You only know what you see
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[02:07.99] You don't understand what it takes to be me
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[02:14.24] You only know what you see
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[02:19.08] You don't understand what it takes to be me
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[02:23.71] Nigga see you in the street pretend to be friendly
[02:26.18] But I know any type of success breeds envy
[02:28.71] I know in the back of your mind your conjuring ways to hen me
[02:31.58] Leave my friends in a circle pouring out Henny
[02:34.01] But G's is heaven bound so how I'm goin' receive
[02:36.71] Anything y'all pour to the ground next time throw it up
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[02:39.66] And ain't nothing changed so even in my afterlife I show it up
[02:43.37] Don't grieve for me my art remains
[02:45.18] Like a dart from the speaker to your heart
[02:47.06] Spiritually through the portal now my words as a mortal
[02:49.69] Plan to leave without a fight I plant a seed I give life
[02:52.38] Though I can't see past the girls greed to call her wife
[02:54.87] Next time your thinking heist better be precise
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[02:57.61] Cause I'm fully prepared one of us is goin' leave here
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[03:00.55] I have no regrets even though I wanna see grow
[03:02.95] My godsons Boogie Sonny and Rimo
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[03:06.59] You only know what you see
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[03:10.62] You don't understand what it takes to be me
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[03:17.07] You only know what you see
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[03:21.84] You don't understand what it takes to be me
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[03:27.47] You only know what you see
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[03:31.46] You don't understand what it takes to be me
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[03:38.00] You only know what you see
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[03:41.82] You don't understand what it takes to be me
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[03:48.19] You only know what you see
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[03:52.27] You don't understand what it takes to be me
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