Metropolis

[Verse 1: J.I.D] Let me tell y’all what this must be A couple keys wrapped under the Christmas tree A few pan handling, black Mandarins One off a Candler and the others off a Campbellton Eye level they wanna see us But it’s hard to chop a sequoia to a tree stump, with a butter knife That shit would take an eon I was riding down E Ponce de Leon with my nigga Keeyan Seen a fly girl in some Yves Saint Laurent’s I was like, ooh, girl, you Beyoncé, you could be my fiancé What’s your name? She said Dion Cool, that’s unisex, I’m thinking, "How I can give me and you the sex?" Lil jokey joke, Jiddy, J.I.D, mardy mar Never had an Audemar and never drove a foreign car I’m just a gifted ass Georgia boy There's a difference between gifts and talent, so peep the balance Nigga been working until his hand get calluses Tryna eat something fatter than DJ Khaled is Mind scrabble, dibble dabble, slam the gavel Long travel roads, fucking hoes, probably won’t get on 'til I’m fucking old [Verse 2: Johnny Venus] I ripped the teeth out from under your brain, these drums is insane I'm out of my space time continuum frame And I had to throw my hands up, rock your head like the ninja You couldn't fit on this if it was wide as the pacific I’m tired of tussling with ya, I’m tired of bussing with ya Dawg, it’s been nuts since we was taking little rusty pictures Fuck you niggas, step on, step on up Take your ass right back to school now with a million paper cuts Wake the dead up out their sleep with a message, I don’t mess As I’m caught up in the embrace of her dreamy labias And them freaky flow of patterns trippin’ and clappin’ at us Really we get to act up And we strapped up, high like NASA, so I suggest you back up If I fell out of my head Suspended in the lap of a real goddess She look down while canoeing through that silver lining Would you still try me? With that safety on, darling would you still eye me? Feel like the type to loan pearls out, interest Steady climbing, hide me She gon’ have to rotate now, I miss steady shining Yes, I hit the game like Kanye had did Heads up where the big clutch right Really trying God not to miss my window Blind sniper in the dark of the night Back spasms for the nights you napped on Back cracking, black boner, all up in the backbone Stop acting, shed that skin Pop the capsule, leave your body back home Then bankhead bounce to the other side of life, I get my naps on Bear that shit My skin’s a target, hard to compare that shit If it look good on you, then they gon’ hate in a bit Wear that shit, rule a thumb Cowards scared as fuck to do what ain't been done I’m just scared as fuck to show up to God with the “I ain’t done” Look on my face, I ain’t one to run in place Trying not to pull a Drake 'cause it’s my first time in here Really caught me at the fucking worst time in here West side, so you know it’s hearse time in here [Hook 1: J.I.D ] So don’t you dare act like we never been here before And your principal office been suspended before Put some acid on your tongue, I recommended it, bro Earth, wind, fire, air bending these hoes [Hook 2: Doctur Dot] And don’t you dare act like we never been here before Momma watched me, wondered where the fuck my energy go Probably the same place where my memories go To infinity bro, you ain’t feeling me though [Verse 3: Doctur Dot] From the land of red clay, and lottery worship Where all of these murders is definitely probably on purpose And all the colicky children getting put out in the churches The preacher mean mugging your momma, like swallow ya words, bitch What makes a prodigy worthless? How about taking a shitty job 'cause economy hurting? When you see the face of God, you ain’t gotta be nervous Especially if, in your life, you tried to follow your purpose You could’ve been a serial killer with the coolest symbol Three razor cuts in a forehead of a fifth victim Illuminati, numerology, triangular prism Pendulum swinging, maybe later I’ll be banging some bitches Ain’t gotta explain to you niggas, we all know danger’s appealing We all know pain’s the realest way to try to say what you feeling It’s amazing, got malaise from my illness And that’s a double entendre, but I don’t expect y’all to feel this Not from the dreamy bohemian or the loopiest nubian Got the gluteus maximus then we making a movie Doctor D’s the definition of a perfect lunatic That means I’ll probably fucking lose it if I catch the moon a bit Ben Hill, southwest, where my fucking goonies live They all'll murk you from my baby brother if you fool with him And I’m the lamest nigga in the squad, and I’m like superman So it probably would behoove you to try to be cool with them My umbilical was cut by the horse's bite 'Cause I was born in a manger on the darkest night I was born in the danger, I was forced to fight Forced to learn the force before the night that Obi-Wan could die A lot of dilated eyes claim to see the light But all they ever see is seeds and saplings die So who’s the victim? Look inside Ight [Hook 3: Johnny Venus] And don’t you dare act like we never been here before Red carpet on my toes, Greg Hines on the Cole And you can stare like a nigga never been here before We’ll be wringing out your soul when the filling your soul [Hook 1: J.I.D] So don’t you dare act like we never been here before And your principal office been suspended before Put some acid on your tongue, I recommended it, bro Earth, wind, fire, air bending these hoes [Hook 2: Doctur Dot] And don’t you dare act like we never been here before Momma watched me, wondered where the fuck my energy go Probably the same place where my memories go To infinity, bro, you ain’t feeling me though And don’t you dare act like we never been here before Momma watched me, wondered where the fuck my energy go Probably the same place where my memories go To infinity, bro, you ain’t feeling me though