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