Guard Your Heart lyrics

[Intro: Anderson .Paak]

Yeah (Oh yeah)

[Verse 1: Anderson .Paak]

I'm broken in pieces down to the soul

I know the whole world can feel it

I know that they can see it (Oh), uh

Oh, I hate to admit that I need you, I need you, I need you

Next to me

You said that you would ride for me

And I hear you

But right now I need to feel you right next to me

'Cause this is all I got, prove that you got me

(Oh yeah) Oh yeah, yeah

(Broken pieces)

'Cause this is all I got, prove that you got me

[Chorus: Earlly Mac, Anderson .Paak & Both]

Yeah

So if you say, "Nigga," then I'ma say, "Is that a Ritz?" Mmm

Ooh, fifty niggas deep (Deep), hundred niggas step

Million Man March (Mmm), cracker, don't you start (Yeah)

Hold yo' head, guard yo' heart

Hold yo' head, uh

Nigga, get yo' bread, uh, light yo' spark

Strike yo' mark, life don't stop

So hold yo' hеad, guard yo' heart

Hold yo' head, yeah

[Verse 2: Big Sean, Anderson .Paak & Wale]

Conflictеd in this free-based world of give and take (Take)

'Cause I always rather give than to be the one sayin' thanks (Woah)

Conflicted like bein' signed to Ye and managed by JAY

Conflicted like bein' cool with Pusha and Drake (Damn)

Conflicted like reppin' a city where I hardly stay (Stay)

Or knowin' that you wrong but it's too hard to say

Hold yo' head (Hold yo' head), guard your heart (Guard your heart)

In my life, those were the hardest parts (Yeah)

So many dark times, I wish I caught a spark

Or learned not seein' eye to eye could be fixed with a heart-to-heart (God)

So many lost, I feel lost, got me feelin' like a real nigga, Holocaust

Got me mournin' while it's dark (Dark)

Life'll eat you alive, we know how to be a meal

Shit, rather than see a mill', to make it out, you need a skill (Yeah)

Thought I was past my past, but let's be clear (Clear)

Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear (Swerve)

Regrettin' everything in life is my only fear (My only fear)

And you know what they say about not conquerin' fears (What?)

If you don't, then they'll always be near

As that reminder in your ear, shit that I ain't tryna hear (Nah)

Hold yo' head (Hold yo' head), guard your heart (Guard your heart)

In my life, those were the hardest parts (Swerve)

Oh, you mistake me fallin' down for fallin' off (Woah)

Or mistake me bein' soft for speakin' from the heart

I guess life hasn't taught you as much as you thought

Instead of pickin' up your missin' pieces, you pick me apart (God)

[Verse 3: Wale & Big Sean]

Boy, hold your head but guard your heart

Got tired of white silence, so the riots started

And the robbers robbed, you wylin' 'cause yo' product gone?

We mad that Eric Garner, Breonna, Gianna father gone

Yeah, a lot of trauma, we tired, exhausted

Ermias the prophet said it'd be a marathon, look

Seen all my dawgs shown me God was watchin' (Woah)

Pandemic slowin' 'em down, they fastin', Ramadan

The land of fifty stars, on Hollywood marchin'

White friends don't got us, I promise you, I'll block 'em (Straight up)

I'ma count my bread, I defied the odds

And fuck the Saint quarterback 'cause he ain't Saint Laurent

Boy, from here on out, we on Pyer Moss

If we leave Reebok, we still bring 'em pumps and all the broads

Yeah, I motivate (I motivate), I don't divide (I don't divide)

The 45 a coward for practicing otherwise

A burnt nation, still it's under God

Not gonna throw the towel in, I'm by my brother's side

Your niggas be yo' niggas when you level up

You see that yo' niggas and brothers different when luck is up

So I trust nothing, this industry's something

My biggest rival is my mind protecting my thoughts

As well as my heart

[Chorus: Earlly Mac]

It's fifty niggas deep, hundred niggas step

Million Man March, cracker, don't you start

Hold yo' head, guard yo' heart

Hold yo' head, uh

Nigga, get yo' bread, uh, light yo' spark

Strike yo' mark, life don't stop

So hold yo' head, guard yo' heart

Hold yo' head, yeah

• Artist:Big Sean
• Album:Detroit 2 (2020)