iLoveMakonnen Ft. Ezra Koenig & Despot - Down 4 So Long (Lyrics)

[Intro] I’ve been down for so long

And I’ve been keeping it too real

So I’ma say what I want

And I don’t care how you feel

No I don’t care how you feel

[Pre-Chorus: Makonnen] I lost my friends in ’07

Every night I pray to God they made it to heaven

Cause I’ve been going through the worst

Having visions that I’m leaving in a hearse, next

[Chorus] But I’ve been down for so long

And I’ve been keeping it too real

Yeah I’ve been keeping it too real

I’ve been keeping it too real

So I’ma say what I want

And I don’t care how you feel

[Verse 2: Ezra Koenig] I’m leaving New York, I don’t wanna pay the tax

I move to Monaco but now I can’t relax

I hate myself I think Americans are whack

But other countries leave me feeling weird like afternoon naps

Summer twenty-fourteen

Shmoney dancing with some goth teens

Motherfuckers leaking nudes

Why they got to be so rude?

I lost my samurai

I feel like a fucking ronin

And now my only friends are Despot and Makonnen

Gonna spend the Fall buying jackets at the mall

Gonna spend the winter fucking frozen in a crystal ball

Went to the Hamptons and I thought I was the man

‘Til Mary-Kate said my Ray Bans were off-brand

I kept my mouth shut and I shook Sarkozy’s hand

Spit in the ocean, stole a handful of his sand

Damn, damn

[Bridge: Despot] I’m ’bout to right these old wrongs

But not until I get a few mill’

And I been counting so long

Them dead presidents are skeletons on new bills

[Verse 3: Despot] Up on the block again

But down on my luck

If you buying I got whatever I can sell for a buck

And I got it for so cheap

You’d think it fell off a truck

Now them pockets is so deep

They try to run ‘em and sunk

Rocks in socks, I got cold feet

But still married the game, I’m stuck

So I’m dodging the police

I’m out here running duckin’ cuffs

I ain’t getting any sleep

These motherfuckers keep me up

Didn’t know what day it was

Until the club was going up

I ain’t slept a wink

My brain’s on the blink

The fizz in my drink

Got a strange tint of pink

It’s all getting pissed down the drain in the sink

It is what it is

But it ain’t what you think

Put a price tag on your life

Going once, going twice

Go bust off the culture cyph(er)

And blame it on the poltergeist

Alibis is golden

So I fold ‘em like it’s poker night

Got the whistleblowers tight

Like I just boned the coaches wife

Birds is chirping perfect

‘Til I shoot ‘em out the sky in flight

Chop ‘em up and serve ‘em on your turf

You know you heard me right

Got a way with words

You lucky you got away with your life

Not afraid to burn the bridge

It’s shady, I could use the light

[Pre-Chorus: Despot] Now everybody’s on one

I trying to get ‘em on at least two

Keep saying it’s your last one

Nobody’s ever gon’ believe you

[Chorus/Outro: Makonnen]