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i - Kendrick Lamar
[Intro]
This is a world premiere this is a world

[Verse 1]
I done been through a whole lot trial tribulation but I know God
Satan wanna put me in a bow tie pray that the holy water don't go dry yeah yeah
As I look around me so many wanna down me
But enemigo never drown me in front of a dirty double-mirror they found me
And I love myself the world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs

[Chorus]
I love myself but it can do what it want whenever it want I don't mind
I love myself he said I gotta get up life is more than suicide
I love myself one day at a time sun gon' shine
Everybody looking at you crazy what you gon' do?

[Verse 2]
Lift up your head and keep moving or let the paranoia haunt you?
Peace to fashion police I wear my heart on my sleeve let the runway start
You know the miserable do love company what do you want from me and my scars?
Everybody lack confidence everybody lack confidence

[Pre-Chorus]
How many times my potential was anonymous?
How many times the city making me promises? So I promise this
I love myself the world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs

[Chorus]
I love myself but it can do what it want whenever it want I don't mind
I love myself he said I gotta get up life is more than suicide
I love myself one day at a time
Check it out they wanna say it's a war outside and a bomb in the street

[Verse 3]
And a gun in the hood and a mob of police
And a rock on the corner and a line for the fiend
And a bottle full of lean and a model on the scheme yep
These days of frustration keep y'all on tuck and rotation
I duck these cold faces post up fee-fi-fo-fum basis

[Pre-Chorus]
Dreams of reality's peace blow steam in the face of the beast
The sky could fall down the wind could cry now the strong in me I still smile
I love myself the world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs

[Chorus]
I love myself but it can do what it want whenever it want I don't mind
I love myself he said I gotta get up life is more than suicide
I love myself one day at a time sun gon' shine

[Bridge]
Walk my bare feet walk my bare feet
Down down valley deep down down valley deep
Fee-fi-fo-fum fee-fi-fo-fum
My heart undone my heart
I love myself the world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs

[Breakdown]
I love myself but it can do what it want whenever it want I don't mind
I love myself he said I gotta get up life is more than suicide
I love myself one day at a time sun gon'
Hold up I went to war last night

[Vocal Solo]
With an automatic weapon don't nobody call a medic I'ma do it 'til I get it right
I went to war last night
I've been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent
Ducking every other blessing I can never see the message
I could never take the lead I could never bob and weave
From a negative and letting them annihilate me
And it's evident I'm moving at a meteor speed
Finna run into a building lay my body in the street
Keep my money in the ceiling let my mama know I'm free
Give my story to the children and a lesson they can read
And the glory to the feeling of the holy unseen
Seen enough make a scream I love myself

[Breakdown]
I lost my head I must've misread
What the good book said oh woes be me
It's a jungle inside give myself again
'Til the well runs dry I

[Bass Solo]