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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
JAY-Z
Vocals
Justin Timberlake
Vocals
Adrian Younge
Sampled Artist
R.E.M.
Sampled Artist
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Justin Timberlake
Songwriter
Shawn Carter
Songwriter
Terius Nash
Songwriter
Timothy Mosley
Songwriter
J. Harmon
Songwriter
W. Berry
Songwriter
P. Buck
Songwriter
Michael Stipe
Songwriter
A. Younge
Songwriter
Mike Mills
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Timbaland
Producer
Jerome Jroc Harmon
Producer
Chris Godbey
Recording Engineer
Demacio Castellon
Mixing Engineer
Ramon Rivas
Recording Engineer
Johnathan Lee
Assistant Recording Engineer
Matt Weber
Assistant Recording Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Have you ever? Have you ever? Have you ever?
Have you ever? Have you ever? Have you ever?
Have you ever been to Heaven?
Have you ever seen the gates?
Have you bowed unto your highness? (Yeah)
And do you know how Heaven tastes? (Uh)
Knock me down
[Verse 2]
Arm, leg, leg, arm, head, this is God body
Knowledge, wisdom, freedom, understanding, we just want our equality
Food, clothing, shelter, help a **** find some peace
Happiness for a gangsta. ain't no love in these streets, uh
Conspiracy theorists screaming illuminati
They can't believe this much skill is in the human body
He's 6"2', how the fuck he fit in the new Bugatti?
Aw, fuck it, you got me
Question religion, question it all
Question existence until them questions is solved
Meanwhile, this heretic, I be out in Marrakesh
Morocco smoking hashish with my fellowship
Y'all dwell on devil shit, I'm in a Diablo
Yellow shit, color of Jell-O, shit
Hello, bitch, it's me again
Fresh in my Easter clothes feeling like Jesus and
[Verse 3]
Have you ever been to Heaven?
Have you ever seen the gates?
Have you bowed unto you highness?
And do you know how Heaven tastes? Knock me me down
[Verse 4]
That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
[Verse 5]
Getting ghost in the Ghost
Can you see me? Can you see me?
Have mercy on a Judas, angel wings on a Ginny
I'm secular, tell the hecklers sekkle down
Y'all religion creates division
Like my Maybach partition, and
God is my chauffeur, boy, they love Hova
From the South Side of Chi to Brooklyn when I growed up
I confess, God in the flesh
Live among the serpents, turn arenas into churches, uh
I'm like Michael recycled, these are not sixteens
These is verses from the Bible, tell that preacher he's preacher
I'm a motherfucking prophet
Smoke the tree of knowledge, drink from a gold chalice, uh
You gotta love it, I arrive at the pearly gates, I had luggage
Meaning I had baggage
**** asking me question, I don't answer to these busters
Only God could judge us, motherfuckers, uh
[Verse 6]
Have you ever been to Heaven?
Have you ever seen the gates?
Have you bowed unto your highness?
And do you know how Heaven tastes?
[Verse 7]
Heaven or Hell
The cards we been dealt
Are the cards that we play, play, play
Die for what you believe, only one God recedes
When the shots spray, spray, spray
Knock me down
[Verse 8]
Have you ever been to Heaven?
Have you ever seen the gates?
Have you bowed unto your highness?
And do you know how Heaven tastes?
Knock me down
Written by: A. Younge, J. Harmon, Justin Timberlake, M. Mills, Michael Edward Mills, Michael Stipe, P. Buck, Shawn Carter, Terius Nash, Timothy Mosley, W. Berry, Williams Thomas Berry