The Only One

[Intro: Blu]

One, one, one, I’m only

Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh (Yeah)

Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh

Yo, check it

[Verse 1: Blu]

I was a nigga in my younger days

I even went through the phase as an angry ass black man

I played the Pan-African for a week

Until I rocked up in Seattle when that racist shit ceased

I met some sisters out in Mozambique

Who asked me what part of Africa was my fam tree

It would have to be Réunion, an Island on the coast

That was conquered by the French a long time ago

A true foe like I'm Francois cam shot

I gotta stand by my blood like blood, though I am not them

I pretend to be me, every now and then

Even though some days, I wasn't proud of kin

I was childish then, found a style again

Lost myself tryna follow men, reading books to fill this hollow skin

Couldn't swim till they found me on the shallow end

Used to win back when I didn't know how to win

And now I spend money, trying to get my smile grinning

Grim living foul feeling thinner than I am now

And that's a sin, but religion isn't in me anymore

So the Lord doesn't care if I'm sore 'cause I'm bored

Sick of thinking what I'm here for, I'm not sure

I'm trying to be content with that, but fuck that

I want my love back, my lust, my trust back

And keep this freedom, I don't wanna rap

[Hook: Blu]

I'm tryin to be live again, wanna feel like I can fly again

They say the limit is the sky, but I'm sick of getting high

I don't want to have to die, just to feel like I'm alive

I just wanna be I (I just wanna be)

I wanna see me in your eyes again

Put this love between your thighs, wanna give another life

I don't want to have to die 'fore I get to feel alive

I just wanna live my life (I’m only)

[Bridge: Jimetta Rose & Blu]

I am only one, one, one, one (I’m only)

We are always one, one, one

On-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-One

Look up to the sun, sun, sun, sun (I’m only)

See that we are always one, one, one

On-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-One

[Verse 2: Blu]

I was a painter in my last lifetime

Now I write rhymes like I fight crime, living life blind

Trying to find peace

With this girl on my mind that can't find me

Watching Amelie, hoping I'ma be the one that she finds

Can't keep living life in rewind

I used to fast on the hog, now I eat swine

And can't stop smoking, though I keep trying

In these times when the peace of mind is not a goal, it's a grave

I be racing to it holding hope, rejecting change

Cause the pain feels realer than the pleasure, rocking sweaters

When the weather's sunny, funny fellow from the yellow

But I watch so many foreign films, I feel foreign

Every morning cooking full course meals, like I'm starving

Hardly say grace or say "thanks for another day"

Even though I'm grateful, I try to show it in other ways

I used to give bums change, 'til I changed

Kind of strange 'cause when I'm richer than I was when I gave

Got a gang of friends that I don't call or hang with

Even though I know they on that same shit, aimless

Shit, I must seem like I don't dream at all

My mom says that I should draw again but I don't want a pen

I just want to live, have kids, buy a crib like the old days

Whatever happened to those days?

[Hook: Blu]

Ayo, alive again, wanna feel like I can fly again

They say the limit is the sky, but I'm sick of getting high

I don't want to have to die, just to feel like I'm alive

I just wanna be I (I just wanna be)

I wanna see me in your eyes again

Put this love between your thighs, wanna give another life

I don't want to have to die 'fore I get to feel alive

I just wanna live my life

[Outro: Blu]

One, one, one (Yeah)

I’m only

Cause we only got (One)

On-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-One

On-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-One