Fireworks (feat. Alicia Keys)

Money just changed everythin'

I wonder how life without it would go?

From the concrete who knew that a flower would grow?

Lookin' down from the top and it's crowded below

My fifteen minutes started an hour ago

Truth over fame, you know I respect the blatant shit

When I hear 'em talkin' I just don't know what to make of it

Hate is so familiar to me

I'm slowly embracin' it

Doesn't come natural

Bear with me it could take a bit

Yeah, and my dreams are who I'm racin' with

But you can see I'm pacin' it so that I'm always chasin' it

Wayne put me right here

That's who I get the paper with

I hope that my success never alters our relationship

Yeah, this life is somethin' I would die for

October's Own but it's lookin' like July 4

I just wish they'd let you try it first

This time I'm really goin' off, fireworks

Oh, today it begins

I've missed them before

But won't miss them again

I keep havin' the same dream

And I think that I just realized what it means

All I see is fireworks

All I see is fireworks

Every night is fireworks

Every night is fireworks

All I see is fireworks

All I see is fireworks

Takin' off like fireworks

Takin' off like, oh

I'm just such a gentlemen

You should give it up for me

Look at how I'm placing all my napkins and my cutlery

I could tell it wasn't love

I just thought you'd fuck with me

Who coulda predicted lucky strike would have you stuck with me

Damn, I kept my wits about me luckily

What happened between us that night

It always seems to trouble me

Now all of a sudden these gossip rags wanna cover me

And you makin' it seem that it happened that way because of me

But I was curious

And I'll never forget it, baby, what an experience

You coulda been the one, but it wasn't that serious

There was smoke in the air before

That was me clearing it

That felt good

All and all I learned a lesson from it, though

You never see it comin'

You just get to see it go

Yeah, I shoulda looked up in the sky at first

Now I can see it in her eyes, fireworks

Oh, today it begins

I've missed them before

But won't miss them again

I keep havin' the same dream

And I think that I just realized what it means

All I see is fireworks

All I see is fireworks

Every night is fireworks

Every night is fireworks

All I see is fireworks

All I see is fireworks

Takin' off like fireworks

Takin' off like, oh

Everythin' the same but it feels different

My dad called me up knowin' that I still listen

And he's still got his foot out, guilt trippin'

It's been years, though

I just learned to deal with it

For real, me and my realtor

We built up a better rapport

Got my mother in a place with some better decor

She searched the entire city

I let her explore

And now she sayin' she more lonely than ever before

How many of our parents marriages lasted?

I was only five, I bet I barely reacted

I'm flyin' back home for the Heritage Classic

Searchin' for that feelin', tell me where is the magic?

Let's stay together till we're ghosts

I wanna witness love, I never seen it close

Yeah, but I guess I gotta find it first

That's why I'm really goin', off fireworks

Oh, today it begins

I've missed them before

But won't miss them again

I keep havin' the same dream

And I think that I just realized what it means

All I see is fireworks

All I see is fireworks

Every night is fireworks

Every night is fireworks

All I see is fireworks

All I see is fireworks

Takin' off like fireworks

Takin' off like, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh

Oh, oh, oh, oh