Kanye West - Saint Pablo (Lyrics)

[Intro: Kanye West]

Yeah, 9:08 L.A. time

Back in the lab and shit

[Verse 1: Kanye West]

My wife said, I can't say no to nobody

And at this rate we gon' both die broke

Got friends that ask me for money knowin' I'm in debt

And like my wife said, I still didn't say no

People tryna say I'm goin' crazy on Twitter

My friends' best advice was to stay low

I guess it's hard to decipher all of the bills

Especially when you got family members on payroll

The media said it was outlandish spendin'

The media said he's way out of control

I just feel like I'm the only one not pretendin'

I'm not out of control, I'm just not in their control

I know I'm the most influential

That TIME cover was just confirmation

This generation's closest thing to Einstein

So don't worry about me, I'm fine

I can see a thousand years from now in real life

Skate on the paradigm and shift it when I feel like

Grow conventional thought, don't need to question

I know it's antiquated so sometimes I get aggressive

Thank God For Jay Electra, he down with the mission

Did it with with no permission, on our own conditions

Most Blacks with money have been beaten to submission

Yeezy with the big house, did it way different

Never listen to Hollywood producers

Don't stare at money too long, it's Medusa

The ultimate Gemini has survived

I wasn't supposed to make it past 25

[Hook: Sampha]

And you're looking at the church in the night sky

Wondering whether God's gonna say hi

I've been looking in the church in the night sky

And you wonder where is God in your nightlife

Yeah, you're looking at the church in the night sky

(Father, father, father...)

Wondering whether God's gonna say hi

The night sky, I feel like I'm home, baby

[Verse 2: Kanye West]

I've been waking the spirits of millions more to come

A million illegally downloaded my truth over the drums

I believe in the children, listen to the kids, bro

If the phone ringing, go and get your kids ho

Brother Don Muhammad told the minister about the presentation

He sat back and smiled

Black on black lies is worse than black on black crime

The jews share they truth on how to make a dime

Most black men couldn't balance a checkbook

But buy a new car, talkin' 'bout "how my neck look?"

Well it all looks great

Four hundred years later, we buyin' our own chains

The light is before us brothers, so the devil working hard

Real family stick together and see through the mirage

The smokescreens, perceptions of false reality

Who the real owner if your boss gets a salary?

I am one with the people

I am one with the people (real)

I've been workin' from enlightened man's dream

Checkin' Instagram comments to crowdsource my self esteem

Let me not say too much or do too much

Cause if I'm up way too much, I'm out of touch

I'm praying a out-of-body experience will happen

So the people can see my light, now it's not just rapping

God, I have humbled myself before the court

Drop my ego and confidence was my last resort

I know, I know he got a plan, I know I'm on your beams

One set of footsteps, you was carryin' me

When I turned on the news and they was buryin' me

One set of footsteps, you was carryin' me

When I was negotiating with Apple, it was Larry and me

Told Tim Cook to call me, I was scary to see

I would've took a hundred million and gave twenty to Hov

I heard it's the way they did it when we only had the stove

But it's better that I stayed at home with my folks

Cause if Jay a billionaire then I'mma never go broke

Only thing I ask is next time I'm on stage we all go

We all go

Not just by myself, looking for niggas like where's Waldo

She got the same shoes as my wife but she copped 'em at Aldo

Modern day MJ with an off the wall flow

[Bridge: Sampha]

My life walk all over me

Walk all over me

I'm delivering everything I've ever sent to you, bring

Fly, fly, fly overseas

Fly overseas

Oh, anywhere, everything but in between

[Hook: Sampha]

Yeah, you're looking in the church in the night sky

Wondering whether God's gonna say hi

Oh, you're looking in the church in the night sky

And you wonder where is God in your nightlife

Yeah, you're looking in the church in the night sky

Wondering whether God's gonna say hi

[Outro: Sampha]

Please face me when I speak

Please say to me something before you leave

You've been treating me like I'm invisible

Now I'm visible to you, oh, invisible truths

They say I can't quite understand what you say

Understand, understand

Understand I'm standing on the oath

With my hand on the book

Tell the truth, nothing but the whole truth

And you always give me half of you, half of you

Take half a shot, watching all my heart of gold

Make you feel like something from a film, oh

[Hook: Sampha]

Yeah, you're looking in the church in the night sky

Wondering whether God's gonna say hi

I've been looking in the church in the night sky

And you wonder where is God in your nightlife

Yeah, you're looking in the church in the night sky

(Father, father, father...)

Wondering whether God's gonna say hi

I've been looking in the church in the night sky

And you wonder where is God in your nightlife

(Father, father, father...)