You Ain't Never Been Blue

[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