Love Yourz (Live)

I don't think y'all really understand

How much this shit means to me, man, y'all just

I'm back home and y'all just sat through

My whole fucking entire album and shit

That's fucking crazy, thank y'all for doing that shit, man

I been planning this night for a long time so this shit is

Crazy to see it, like

Turn into reality and shit and

I appreciate y'all for sitting through this shit

I wanna tell y'all some shit about this album

So when you leave here tonight

I know people been telling me

**** been playing the album like crazy and I appreciate it, but

But we leave here tonight

I want y'all to know what this album meant to me

So when you driving home, and you playing it

This week, next week, next year, whenever

You gon' always remember what this shit was about

What I had to go out into the world and learn

On my own

I'm coming here to tell y'all tonight, this is what this album is about

And I'm taking taking this message across the fucking world, I don't care

Here it go

When we young, and even when we old

The world is constantly, constantly pumping us with images

And messages about what life is about, right

And what we need to make us happy

And the United States we call it the American Dream right

But what does it always include?

A lot of fucking money

A big ass house

A brand new car

A wife that's not even genetically fucking possible to have and shit

And bitches

And bitches too

They tell us we need all that to be happy, right?

So what ends up happening?

The world is set up so that 99% of us can't live like that

But what do we do?

We idolize the people that do live like that, right?

We call them celebrities, we follow they lives

We go oh man, it looks so perfect, I wanna be living like them

And I'm coming here tonight to tell y'all I'm the same dude

That was on the other side of the fence

Right here in this city, right down the fucking street

Working at the fucking skating rink

Daydreaming

Oh, y'all **** love the skating rink

Daydreaming about this shit, like man I wanna live like that

I wanna have that, right

And then I went and got the shit

But I'm telling y'all this

I'm not saying that to stunt, I'm saying that to say this

When I got over there, on that side of the fence

And I started to look closer, I'm telling y'all

As not, fuck J. Cole, I'm telling y'all as Jermaine

As I really started to take a closer look at all that shit we want

And all that shit we need that makes us happy

I started to see, for my, with my own eyes, like wait a minute

That shit don't feel right, that shit feel weird

And I started to notice that

All that shit that they try to tell us is all bullshit

And it's all wrong and that's not what we need to make us happy

I had to go figure that shit out, right? On my own

And how do I know that?

How do I know that? This is how I know that

It's a man right now in the world, he got millions of dollars

He got a billion fucking dollars, right?

He got everything that we think we need to be happy, he got it

He got the money, he got the cars, he got the big ass crib

Three or four of them bitches, he got the genetically impossible wife

And he got bitches

But yet, this dude is fucking miserable

Right? He's empty inside, he's miserable

But you got a family that come from where we come from

From this city right here

Worse conditions than where we come from

They couldn't afford a ticket to this show tonight

If they fucking wanted one, right?

But yet, somehow they got more happiness and joy

In their lives right now than this man will ever fucking have in his life

How is that possible?

How is that even possible?

He got everything they told us we need to be happy and he's miserable

And they ain't got shit

But they happy

What do they got that he don't got?

What's that?

(Love)

That's that fucking Cumberland County

Public education system right there coming into play

Goddammit

I need everyone to put your cellphones in the sky one time tonight fam

Yeah we gon' light this shit up one time

Hey yo

**** is dreaming about this shit

Huh, love yours

Love yours

No such thing

No such thing as a life that's better than yours

No such thing as a life that's better than yours

No such thing as a life that's better than yours

No such thing, no such thing

A heart beating fast let a **** know that he alive

Fake ****, mad snakes, snakes in the grass

Let a **** know that he alright

Don't be sleeping on your level

'Cause it's beauty in the struggle, ****

(Beauty, beauty)

That go for all y'all

It's beauty in the struggle, ****

(Beauty, beauty)

Lemme explain

It's beauty in the struggle, ugliness in the success

Hear my words and listen to my signal of distress

I grew up in the city and though sometimes we had less

Compared to some of my **** down the block, man we was blessed

Though life can't be no fairy tale, no once upon a time

I'll be goddamned if a **** don't be trying

So tell me mama please, why you be drinking all the time?

Does all the pain he brought you still linger in your mind?

Shit, 'cause pain still lingers on mine

On the road to riches, listen, this is what you'll find

The good news is, ****, you came a long way

The bad news is, ****, you went the wrong way

Think being broke was better

No such thing as a life that's better than yours

No such thing as a life that's better than yours

Think being broke was better

No such thing as a life that's better than yours

No such thing, no such thing

'Cause what's money without happiness?

Or hard times without the people you love?

Though I'm not sure what's about to happen next

I ask for strength from the Lord up above

'Cause I been strong so far, but I can feel my grip loosening

Quick! Do something before you lose it for good

Get it back and use it for good

And touch the people how you did like before

I'm tired of living with demons 'cause they always inviting more

Think being broke was better

Now I don't mean that phrase with no disrespect

To all my **** out there living in debt

Cashing minimal checks, turn on the TV, see a **** Rolex

And fantasize about a life with no stress

I mean this shit sincerely and as a **** who was once in your shoes

Living with nothing to lose, I hope one day you hear me

Always gonna be a bigger house somewhere, but **** feel me

Long as the people in that motherfucker love you dearly

Always gonna be a whip that's better than the one you got

Always gonna be some clothes that's fresher than the ones you rock

Always gonna be a bitch that's badder out there on the tours

But you ain't never gon' be happy till you love yourz

No such thing as a life that's better than yours

No such thing as a life that's better than yours

Love yourz

No such thing as a life that's better than yours

No such thing, no such thing

A heart beating fast let a **** know that he alive

Fake ****, mad snakes, snakes in the grass

Let a **** know that he alright

Two six Fayetteville, Fayette-nam, I fucking love y'all

My name is J. Cole, Cole World

This bitch some legendary shit man, until the next time

Goddammit

Peace and love