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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Pharrell Williams
Additional Vocals
Mekke'l Carter
Additional Vocals
Victor Mensah
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
VIC MENSA
Composer
Saul Williams
Composer
Malik Yusef El Shabazz Jones
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Pharrell Williams
Producer
Alex Baez
Recording Engineer
Wil Anspach
Recording Engineer
Young Guru
Mixing Engineer
Lyrics
(Wings, wings, wings) Yeah
P, this shit beautiful (Wings, wings, wings)
(Spread my, spread my wings, wings)
It's made me think about my life (And fly, fly, fly, fly)
Where I wanna go, where I've been
Yeah
Turn the headphones up (Wings, wings, wings)
Take me away from all the drama, man
I miss the old days
With all of these backstabbers I feel like the O'Jays
I wanna open up my parachute, but it's cold playin' this role
When you've never been the type to role play
It's something 'bout this game, man it fucks with you mentally
Like football players leaving the league with traumatic brain injury
And eventually, you'll never be the same as you were
Then you look back at your life and everything is a blur
Like did I really turn 23 and see a mil before 24?
Did I really blow it all like a hand grenade in the middle of a civil war?
Am I still down with the same **** I came in with?
Do they value my friendship or do they just love the attention?
Not to mention my girlfriends
What went wrong? Did they do me too right?
Am I the same as the snakes? Is the past coming back to bite?
Did I waste too many days? Did I fight too many knights?
Will they love me when I die? Will I ever learn to fly?
Spread my wings, wings, wings
Raise my wings, wings, wings
Spread my wings, wings, wings
And fly, fly, fly, fly
Here's my, here's my
Introduction to Victor, not Vic Mensa
The one you never meet in the XXL issue
I got so many issues I should be my own publisher
The beat is my therapist, Skateboard, paint the picture
A portrait of the artist formerly known as Vic
I read the signs I was close to overdose like Prince
Pickin' pill pieces up out of the bathroom sink
Like an armored truck ridin' to Brink
I'd probably be a vegetable if not for medical attention
My self-destructive habits have my itchin' like Tyrone Biggums
In a cyclone of my own addiction
The voices in my head keep talkin', I don't wanna listen
You'll never be good enough ****, you never was
Nobody fuckin' needs you, you should just jump off the bridge
You hurt everyone around you, you're impossible to love
I don't want you to live, I wish you were fuckin' dead
I wish you were never born, we would all be better for it
I don't love, I don't like you, like a fuckin' metaphor
Fuck every song you ever done
You lie to everyone
And ask them to tell the truth when that's somethin' you never done
You're a fuckin' embarrassment, how dare you when
****, you let the devil in
You're still a drug addict, you're nothin' without your medicine
Go and run to your sedatives, you can't run forever Vic
Climb the tallest building and spread your wings
Spread my wings, wings, wings
Wings, wings, wings
Raise my wings, wings, wings
Spread my wings, wings, wings
And fly, fly, fly, fly
Here's my
Runnin', jumpin', jumpin', jumpin'
Fallin', fallin', fallin'
Through the sky
The answer to the question that wings ask
Jumpin' jumpin', jumpin', jumpin'
Fallin', fallin', fallin'
Through the sky
The metaphor of the bird is internal
Jumpin', jumpin', jumpin', jumpin'
Fallin', fallin', fallin'
Through the sky
Spread my wings and fly
Jumpin', jumpin', jumpin', jumpin'
Fallin', fallin', fallin'
Through the sky
And fly
Jumpin', jumpin', jumpin', jumpin'
Fallin', fallin', fallin'
Through the sky
Jumpin', jumpin', jumpin', jumpin'
Fallin', fallin', fallin'
Through the sky
Spread your wings
Jumpin', jumpin', jumpin', jumpin'
Fallin', fallin', fallin'
Through the sky
Spread your wings and fly
Jumpin', jumpin', jumpin', jumpin'
Fallin', fallin', fallin'
Through the sky
Good evening
Written by: Malik Yusef El Shabazz Jones, Pharrell Williams, Saul Williams, Victor Mensah