Open Your Eyes

[Intro: Sample]

"O—"

"Open your—"

"Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see

I'm just a poor—"

[Chorus: Sample]

"Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see

I'm just a poor boy—"

"Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see

I'm just a poor boy—"

[Verse 1]

Seeing is believin', believe when you see it

They saying I'm the best—shit—I'm just trying to be it

They tied me to a mountain of it, I just try to ski it

Long distance wireless Kinect like I Wii it

W, double-I, spelled so you can see it

Cause it's way over their heads when I Ray Allen 3 it

I'm Rondo on the bongos when giving you my convo

We ain't been home since we were snatched out the Congo

Toast to progress as I'm staring out my condo

Made it this far and I ain't never been a Tonto

Yuh, as you compare me to a fuckin' rookie

You can't respect the new school when you played hookie

Cooked white, turned it tan, sold world Snooki

School of Hard Knocks, look at where the game took me

To the limit like Montana with better grammar

Bigger homes with bigger guns and better cameras

[Chorus: Sample]

"Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see

I'm just a poor boy—"

[Interlude]

You are now listening to the future

Open your eyes, nigga, and see what I see

Don't mind me—I'm just here to restore the feeling

Yeah, I'm just here to restore the feeling

You feel the pressure, yeah

[Verse 2]

I never pitched a penny in a wishing well (Never)

I laid it all on a fishing scale (Yes)

And an apron that hung from a kitchen nail

Straight from my memoirs as I kiss and tell

Big faces like Rushmore, touch more

Fashion trailblazers, trendsetters look to us for

The next mission when the tide dries up

With no innervision yet they eyes wide shut

Fifteen years abducting spies like us

Confidential informants disguised like us

Jail doesn't resonate with guys like us

Told Wesley at the Oscars to slide like us

Didn't listen, so prison is what they did to him

Accountant unscathed, millions is what they hid through him

Same principles you must adhere

Lohans get the breaks, the T.I.'s, we just steer through 'em

[Chorus: Sample]

"Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see

I'm just a poor boy—"

[Outro]

The odds is against us

No excuses though, we just play harder

Hustle smarter, yeah

They done freed Weezy

Congratulations, my nigga

Now let TIP go, yuh