[Intro: Sample 1 & Sample 2]
Seems like dreams like I've always had
Could be, should be, making me glad
Why am I blue? It's up to you to explain
Blue
"What's your favorite color?" (It's up to you) "Pink!"
"What's your second favorite color?" (It's up to blue, It's up to blue)
"Darker pink!"
"What's your third favorite color?" (It's up to blue)
"Green!" (It's up to blue)
"What's your fourth favorite color? (It's up to you to explain)
"Blue"
[Verse 1: Blu]
Uh (You ain't never been blue)
Like if you grew up on Dre and had to move out to LA
Or it's your 29th birthday and you ain't had no place to stay
Or when your mama left your papa, you was five, maybe four
You got a dollar but a meal cost five, maybe more
You sleeping, two to a bed, one at the foot, one at the headboard
You studied to be a college student until your head sore
You work at a pet store
You wanna sell your soul but you can't get no bread for it
(You ain't never been blue)
You got ate up in a battle, your girlfriend say she don't like you
You wish it wasn't your gender, your ethnicity doesn't fit you
You don't fit in that school, you got beat up in a fight
Your car got a flat tire, and you got one on your bike
You try to be like your idol, you heard he say he don't like you
You had a fight with your rival and lost the championship fight
You couldn't walk at graduation though you tried hard to make it
But everybody don't make it man (You ain't never been blue)
Pro broke hustlin or strung out struggling
On the block drug juggling or running from the cop busting
What you talking bout nigga? You ain't never been caught with pounds
You ain't never been in the pen without someone to hold you down
You ain't never been down and out without a dollar for food
Y'all don't know what I'm talkin' 'bout, y'all don't know nothin' 'bout the blues
Sleeping next to cockroaches, eating out of garbage cans
You ain't never been no man, man
[Chorus]
You ain't never been blue
You ain't never been blue
You ain't never been blue
You ain't never been blue
You ain't never been blue
[Verse 2: Exile]
You ain't never been staked out by cops with guns drawn
Pointed to your dome, your boy runs and he's gone
You run and hide from the pigs all night long
Seven hours, wake up, get caught, and then moms
Slap you in the face like, "Why you write graffiti when
We the ones who's needy with no food and no TV?
You should get a job for this, get your food 'cause I rob for this"
Mom's stealing food in her purse, you ain't never been this, I promise this
Blue like John, no lights on
No bills paid, no food from Vons
Thirteen with the flow with my Chuck Taylors on
Listen to the song 'cause (You ain't never been blue)
You ain't never been that, blue when I pen that
Put it on the paper, blue stamp, then I send that
Color the sky, the water's in my eyes, you never did that
Put sorrows in the verse, something, get dap
[Chorus]
You, you ain't blue
You, you ain't blue
You ain't never been blue
[Verse 3: Blu]
The illest rapper rapping that ain't gold and ain't platinum
'Cause I ain't sell my soul for some cracker or mansion, see
Just because I'm rapping don't mean that I'm stacking
Y'all don't wanna see me back up in this bitch, backpacking
Getting rides to my show, asking the homie for some dough
You heard somebody you know got shot down by the po'
You brought a child into this world and you can't pay the rent
'Cause your money is spent, man (You ain't never been blue)
[Verse 4: Exile]
Blue like my eyes be with gold in the middle
Kinda like my outer and my inner, that's the riddle
Big blue soul, you ain't even have a little
Put your hand out, I'll give you my favorite color of Skittles
It'll be the day, dee-dee-dee-da-dee-day
Olly olly oxen free, blue kids come out and play
You are free today, free to be blue anyway
We can run away but blue is always with you every day
Blue is on the way, no matter how you feel today
This feeling doesn't stay in balance, something, ch-ch, yin and yang
We can sit and run away
Paint the town red like the blue when you close the page (Blue)
[Outro]
You ain't never been blue
