More Than Special

[Audio clip from Kid Cudi interview]

“The whole motivation is just bringing authenticity back to the forefront. Bringing real content, bringing real emotion. The realness. And I’m not talkin about street realness, where it’s like “Yo, blah blah blah bap bap bap” Fuck all that. It’s about being a real human being.”

[Hook]

(Something more than special)

One, two, one, two

Just a little bit more

This is for everybody who thought they were special

[Verse 1]

I’ve always been special, see

Especially when compared to those next to me

Teachers always said I could be next to be this or that

But I was lookin for what’d rescue me

Cause what you supposed to do when you know that you don’t know?

When you just a kid but you feel so old?

When everybody know you got a side you won’t show

And all you wanna do is move but you so froze

In a generation where we all think we so special, what about the ones who really are?

There’s too many phonies wit cojones

And the gifted know the odds and we stuck in limbo so we lowerin the bar

But I wanna raise it, raise it along with love, children and me and my contemplation

Cause I ain't tryna fade nor taper

Man, I’m tryna shape up, think of all the places we can take us

[Chorus]

This feelin in me has got to be something more than special

(Just a little bit more, bit more)

I can feel it all in my bones, won’t leave me alone, it just goes on and on and on

This feelin in me has got to be something more than special

(Just a little bit more, bit more)

It’s all in my soul, won’t let me go, it just goes on and on

[Verse 2]

I ain’t tryin be different, I’m tryin make a difference

Yeah, I’m musical but I ain’t tryin to be Pippen

I wanna be Mike on the mic in this life where if you ain't tactical then you could get sniped

Like, I wanna teach but don’t wanna be a teacher

And I wanna preach but don’t wanna be a preacher

Unique creature, my wave in this game tidal

And they in the bleachers so nah, I don’t want a feature

I’m just tryna feed ya food for thought so you ain't forced to believe the dominant paradigms of our generation like you got a bag of pair of dimes and just denigrate em right after you penetrate em to levitate your status, yo

Let’s be better than the status quo

Cause special has become so average so I wanna be radical

Fuck a habit yo, let’s fuck around and have some thoughts that we ain't had before

[Chorus]

This feelin in me has got to be something more than special

(Just a little bit more, bit more)

I can feel it all in my bones, won’t leave me alone, it just goes on and on and on

This feelin in me has got to be something more than special

(Just a little bit more, bit more)

It’s all in my soul, won’t let me go, it just goes on and on

[Hook]

On and on and on

It goes on and on and on, it goes, it goes

It goes on and on and on

It goes on and on and on, it goes, it goes

[Verse 3]

Yo, I just got this feelin in me

And they don’t feel like dealin wit me but I can’t stop cause the real is in me

And fear is in me but I know that somewhere out there someone’s hearin this

See I can’t stop, I owe it to that person cause that’s worth it

So if they don’t recognize, I reckon I just oughta try harder, cause I’m my author

Rooftop, build your own, and if we fall man, at least we flown

[Chorus]

This feelin in me has got to be something more than special

(Just a little bit more, bit more)

I can feel it all in my bones, won’t leave me alone, it just goes on and on and on

This feelin in me has got to be something more than special

(Just a little bit more, bit more)

It’s all in my soul, won’t let me go, it just goes on and on