Past My Shades

[Intro: B.o.B]

If you asked me what's on my mind, you probably won't believe it

'Cause if life was one big pool, I'd be in the deep end

So I play my role and never ever speak it, like a secret

And all the while you just try to figure me out (What?)

[Chorus: B.o.B]

But you can't see past my shades

Past my shades, past my shades

And you can't see past my shades

Past my shades, past my shades

And you can't see past my shades

Past my shades, past my shades

And you can't see past my shades

Past my shades, past my shades

[Verse 1: B.o.B]

Well, ask me a question, I tell you no lies

'Cause there's nothing to hide, my soul's in my eyes

And I'm ahead of my time but I cannot rewind

The only thing I fear is the mirror in my bathroom

People look and try to see a disguise

But there is nothing that nobody can't see in light

If it's a song with a rhyme or a verse with a line

Then you understand my mind

[Chorus: B.o.B]

But you can't see past my shades

Past my shades, past my shades

And you can't see past my shades

Past my shades, past my shades

And you can't see past my shades

Past my shades, past my shades

And you can't see past my shades

Past my shades, past my shades

[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]

Who else but Lu else?

You know I got two belts, the black and the white one

I begin and I master

I see in my eye glasses

But they saying what I'm seeing through is false like Ross

I can hear him through the wall like "Walk

This Way", trying to dissuade my thoughts

I'm a slave to myself and disobeyed my boss

It's all in disarray this parade I walk

They get amazed when they catch a chain I toss

Amidst this array of different ways I talk

And it hangs from your brain if my chain you caught

Like I cough without covering my mouth

I tip the scales like the king of the south

Forgot that I was fat, I lost my way

But now I'm back looking for the shade I sought

And not wonders, I'm Scott Summers

So don't make me take off my stunners

Bobby Ray, you know you got my numbers

And them deer can't see us like hunters

[Chorus: B.o.B]

But you can't see past my shades

Past my shades, past my shades

And you can't see past my shades

Past my shades, past my shades

And you can't see past my shades

Past my shades, past my shades

And you can't see past my shades

Past my shades, past my shades