The Cool-Lupe Fiasco

[ti:The Cool] [ar:Lupe Fiasco] [al:Food & Liquor] [00:00.41] [00:01.03]Lupe Fiasco - The Cool [00:04.77] [00:05.23]Yeah... [00:09.92]Yeah... [00:12.96]The cool. [00:15.35]Turn me up [00:16.82]Uh-huh.. [00:17.94]Yeah.. [00:18.83] [00:20.50]He came back [00:21.33]In the same suit that he was buried in [00:23.13]Similar to the one his grand father was married in [00:25.67]Yes... he was still fresh to death [00:28.28]Bling, two ear-rings, a chain laying on his chest [00:30.04]He still had it cuz they couldn't find it [00:32.81]And the bullets from his enemies sat like two inches behind it [00:35.88]Smelled the Hennesy from when his niggas got reminded [00:38.33]And poured out liquor in his memory, he didn't mind it, But... [00:41.32]He couldn't sip it fast enough [00:43.13]So the liquor was just filling the casket up [00:45.74]Floating down by his feet was the letter from his sister [00:48.50]Second Grade hand-writing simply read "I miss ya" [00:51.23]Suit jacket pocket held his baby daughter's picture [00:53.67]Right next to it one of his man's stuck a swisher [00:56.35]He had a notion as he laid there soaking [00:58.70]Saw that the latch was broken, he kicked his casket open [01:01.34]And he... [01:01.63] [01:01.89]This life goes passing you by [01:04.07]It might go fast if you lie [01:06.54]You go and you live then you die... [01:09.48] [01:10.46]O-oh-oh-ohh [01:11.48] [01:12.07]If life goes passing you by [01:14.26]Don't cry [01:15.61]If you breaking the rules [01:17.25]Making your moves [01:18.51]Paying your dues... [01:20.59]Chasing the cool [01:21.68] [01:22.17]Not at all nervous as he dug to the surface [01:24.17]Tarnished gold chain is what he loosened up the earth with [01:26.77]He used his mouth as a shovel to try and hollow it [01:29.37]And when he couldn't dirt spit... swollowed it [01:31.65]Working like a.. hmm.. reverse archaeologist [01:34.50]Except.. his buried treasure was sunshine [01:37.34]So when some shined through a hole that he had drove [01:39.35]It reflected off the gold and almost made son blind [01:41.96]He grabbed on to some grass, he climbed [01:44.00]Pulled himself up out of his own grave and looked at the time [01:47.07]On the watch that had stopped six months after the shots [01:49.67]That had got him in the box wringing Henny out his socks [01:52.30]Figured it was hours because he wasn't older [01:54.76]Used some flowers to brush the dirt up off his shoulders - so.. [01:57.89]With a right hand that was all bones and no reason to stay [02:01.05]Decided to walk home [02:02.27]So he.. [02:02.61] [02:03.07]This life goes passing you by [02:05.22]It might go fast if you lie [02:07.74]You go and you live then you die... [02:10.89] [02:11.48]O-oh-oh-ohh [02:12.49] [02:13.05]If life goes passing you by [02:15.38]Don't cry [02:16.78]If you breaking the rules [02:18.37]Making your moves [02:19.64]Paying your dues... [02:21.93]Chasing the cool [02:23.29] [02:23.62]He begged for some change to get him on a train [02:25.38]"Damn that ni**a stank", is what they complained [02:27.73]Tried to light the blunt but it burst into flames [02:30.30]Caught the reflection in the window of what he became [02:32.94]A long look... Wasn't shook, wasn't ashamed [02:35.44]Matter fact only thing on his brain was brains.. yeah [02:38.68]And getting back in his lane, doing his thang [02:41.45]First he had to find something to slang [02:43.06]Next stop was his block [02:44.99]It had the same cops [02:45.95]Walked right past the same spot where he was shot [02:48.21]Shocked that some lil' niggas tried to sell him rocks [02:50.72]It just felt weird being on the opposite [02:53.39]They figured that he wasn't from there [02:54.83]So they pulled out and robbed him [02:56.16]With the same gun they shot him with [02:58.91]Put it to his head and said "You scared ain't ya?" [03:01.41]He said: "Hustler for death. No heaven for a gangsta." [03:02.88] [03:03.16]This life goes passing you by [03:06.01]It might go fast if you lie [03:08.54]You go and you live then you die... [03:11.64] [03:12.26]O-oh-oh-ohh [03:13.52] [03:13.90]If life goes passing you by [03:16.22]Don't cry [03:17.54]If you breaking the rules [03:19.13]Making your moves [03:20.43]Paying your dues... [03:22.75]Chasing the cool [03:24.60] [03:31.43]Lupe Fiasco - The Cool [03:33.90]