Vanity

There we go, there we go

I think we're live again

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[Verse 1: Blu]

All alone, unplug my phone

Back in the zone, been home but been gone

Prioritizing life in case I do not live long

And finally found some time to sit down and pen this song

Might as well try to tell you how I feel when I feel

And not just when it's time to pay some bills, life is real

You can miss it everyday, trying to get a little pay

Fill the page with some change

Try to feel a little change on my mind

I be thinking about the rain but

Sunshine shines everyday but hey

What can I say?

This is sunny California where the phoneys run up on you

Cause they want you to be just like them

I'm on the corner 'bout to get a swisher from the liquor store

Twist the dro, sit at home, pen a song

Call a chick, get some dome

Play my shit, when I roll

Cause nobody knows my mental like me

Open my window let you people get a peep, peep

My life is simple, yo they think the shit is deep. Sheep

Be sleeping on me cause I finally got some sheets. Please

That's for wifey not just hoes that want to ride me

Cause they like me when I'm riding the beat

"To each his own", niggas say. They gripping chromes

Splitting domes in they song, when

I just feel I'm pennin' a poem

Peace

[Chorus]

I can't believe they think it's (Vanity)

Even my peeps say it's (Vanity)

(They call it Vanity)

Just because I'd rather eat in peace

My life's been a bitch like this chick named(Vanity)

(They call it Vanity)

Sitting alone on my own dick is (Vanity)

And when I'm gone, "home sick" is just (Vanity)

[Verse 2: Blu]

Yeah

All alone

Back in the zone. No, wifey at home

Been home but ain't boned though

Threw a few dollars to her

Told her get her comb out my hair

Turn a square to a spliff and lift my dome in the air

Above clouds where the rain falls all inside my home

Like, pain colored paint balls

Call it what you want

Niggas laugh cause my faith strong

All I know is no one knows the places that I've gone

Or faces that I've seen cry, seen laugh, seen die

Seen eyes with my life in all of them

Seen signs of falling but I caught hope

Will in my wings, halo, I'll haul hope

To faith like a new black pope

Fuck a debate

I am dope when I want to be

And flow when I'm on the beat

I stroke when I want to; need to skeet

Fuck the streets

They will fuck you if you don't

"Keep your enemies and homies on the ropes

When they supposed to be close"

Poppa told me. And the few that know showed me the ropes

Hanging on dreams to be happy, whether lavish or lean

I've seen enough to make a boy die nappy

Now a man on a search for the God that I am

But actually I'd rather be me

Is that (Vanity)?

My poppa told me it was (Vanity)

My old lady said it's (Vanity)

[Outro]

Because I'd rather be all by myself

Instead of laughing with the crowd

If I don't care to be part of their gaiety

They'll often say to me, "Don't be so proud."

But how are they to know?

I'm looking high and low

For love that used to be my own...