The Climb Back lyrics

Everything come back around full circle

Why do lies sound pleasant but the truth hurtful

Everybody gotta cry once in a while

But how long will it take before you smile

This is that come back to life shit

My niggas pick me up and we gon light the city up as if the sun had the night shift

And paint the town red for my nigga found dead to soon

Yea

To the left of that decimal I need 7 figures to play the joint

Turn up your decibels peep how I decimate a joint

Check out my projects like them workers that section 8 appoints

And you’ll see how I flipped, like exclamation points

My niggas shoot first as if they never played the point, more 2 guards

Enough straps to fill four uhauls

More death than World War II caused around these parts

We pour the brown just to drown these thoughts

Of black corpses in county morgues, Lord, those images hauntin

I ain’t been sleep yet, it’s 10 in the morning

I’m sending a warning, a problem with me is like the BET hip hop awards I’m starting to see you niggas don’t want it

I’m sick of this flauntin, from niggas I know for sho ain’t got mo dough than Cole

Trash rappers Ass backwards tryna go toe to toe

We laugh at ya, staff strapped up on top the totem pole

To blast at ya,

Bass masters, look how they tote a pole

Gotta know the ropes and the protocol

Or they gon for sho blow your clothes half off like a promo code

Made a lil tune called folding clothes, and a nigga still ain’t known to fold

Under pressure, well you know what coal do

Make a diamond, they just rhymin, me I’m quoting gold

1 phone call Get you cancelled like a homophobe,

In this PC culture, address me as the goat, like they call chief Keef Sosa, in my sectional like a fuckin 3 piece sofa

Im known as the chosen one,

Another dead body lay frozen that’s how it go sometimes

When Niggas weighing coke just like the pro’s and cons

Well I ain’t with that sleeping underground like a gopher, so I go for mines

Everything come back around full circle

Why do lies sound pleasant but the truth hurtful

Everybody gotta cry once in a while

But how long will it take before you smile

This is that come back to life shit

My niggas pick me up and we gon light the city up as if the sun had the night shift

And paint the town red for my nigga found dead to soon

Now I know why they call it Blue (YEAAAA)

Survival at all costs, everyday niggas get logged off

Bodies Get hauled off

Passing a funeral procession While holding my breath in the car I thought

At times it be feelin the devil be winning but do that mean god lost

Just got off the phone with my nigga he back in the kennel my dog lost

I brought him round close to me

Before but he

Became addicted to clout and all the hoes we’d meet

I slowly peeped,

Jealousy on his breath, whenever he spoke to me

Like on the low he feeling like in my shoes is where he sposed to be

I tried to ignore the signs, but there in the back of my mind it felt

Like letting a nigga come sleep on your couch but he eating up all yo groceries

My nigga repeated this quote to me, I felt it’s potency

Said Most of these, niggas gon hang theyselfs, just give em the rope and see

I headed that, and what got showed to me

Was screaming that, some niggas you gotta leave em back unfortunately,

We seen the trap, niggas be on that demon clock resultantly

They fiend to clap, as often as the genius app misquotin me

Meanwhile, I see that yo diamonds is glistening

I’m Glad that you shining but need I remind you my niggas is diamond and nickeling

Scraping up whatever coin they can find, the pettiest crime they committing it

Just to get by for a limited time, the Steepest of mountains they tryna climb

I’m here tryna find the derivative

You niggas don’t feel me,

You see the clout

You don’t see the real me

If I was sick, you niggas wouldn’t heal me

Therefore I’m healin myself, getting in tune with my God, slowly revealing myself, building my wealth, a nigga touch mine ima kill em myself

Everything come back around full circle

Why do lies sound pleasant but the truth hurtful

Everybody gotta cry once in a while

But how long will it take before you smile

This is that come back to life shit

My niggas pick me up and we gon light the city up as if the sun had the night shift

And paint the town red for my nigga found dead to soon

Now I know why they call it Blue (YEAAAA)

• Artist:J. Cole