[ti:Sacrifices (Explicit)] [ar:Dreamville/EARTHGANG/J. Cole/Smino/Saba] [al:Revenge Of The Dreamers III (Explicit)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sacrifices (Explicit) - Dreamville/EARTHGANG/J. Cole/Smino/Saba [00:04.42]Lyrics by：Jermaine Cole/Olu Fann/Simmie Sims III/Tahj Malik Chandler/Benjamin Tolbert/Justin Henderson [00:08.85]Composed by：Jermaine Cole/Olu Fann/Simmie Sims III/Tahj Malik Chandler/Benjamin Tolbert/Justin Henderson [00:13.28]Johnny Venus： [00:17.71]Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah [00:18.91]Yeah yeah yeah yeah [00:24.22]Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah [00:25.51]Yeah yeah yeah yeah [00:27.02]Johnny Venus： [00:29.17]That n***a back from the dead yeah [00:31.12]I don't know I don't know I don't know [00:32.40]N***a almost lost his head yeah [00:34.26]Try to run try to fly try to float [00:35.71]Candles on top of the dresser [00:37.30]Baby you down need to bless up [00:38.88]Better watch how you address us [00:40.54]Playing no games no dress up [00:42.18]I got an idea [00:43.77]Let's shoot wild 'n out in my hood talkin' right here [00:47.09]Academy award nominated performance yeah [00:50.35]Let the AK spray straight for four minutes yeah [00:53.43]That's a monologue talking to the fog f**k an ordinance yeah [00:56.57]Johnny Venus： [00:57.58]I make sacrifices bloody sacrifices [01:04.88]Cutthroat rabbit's toe I suppose [01:10.56]Maybe that's what life is [01:13.18]Johnny Venus： [01:14.79]Ayy man cavemen [01:15.68]Two drinks cave in [01:16.54]Few blunts ease up [01:17.29]Ooh yeah please up [01:18.13]Who cares Who there [01:18.92]Do what wake up [01:19.79]The hell heaven [01:20.65]We want heads up [01:21.39]Hey you yeah you [01:22.25]Mother f**k brother f**k [01:23.01]Sister f**k family f**k [01:23.88]The system get some [01:24.63]Hey you day two [01:25.44]Yeah you you you [01:26.26]You a vege' do the dance [01:27.10]Table get low [01:28.03]Chopped cheese knot knees [01:28.76]Boy please whatever [01:29.52]You next to death [01:30.39]To go ooh oh [01:31.19]Who's that ring ring [01:32.03]Your number bling bling [01:32.75]Call it up chalk it up [01:33.66]Move over [01:33.90]Johnny Venus： [01:34.39]I make sacrifices bloody sacrifices [01:40.83]Cutthroat rabbit's toe I suppose [01:45.40]Smino： [01:48.14]S**t lookin' all red from the North with the pole [01:50.02]It ain't Santa Claus [01:50.97]Brought my gifts to Atlanta I'm Atlanta Claus [01:52.53]I can smell you p***y with the panties off I [01:54.75]Been gettin' to the bread tryna keep this s**t low [01:56.55]But it ain't workin' my [01:57.70]Circle on fire like a circus now [01:59.23]Around the same n***as I been around so [02:01.31]Of course I [02:01.71]Of course I [02:02.03]Endorse my [02:02.66]Endorse my [02:03.00]Ratchet a*s n***a from the North Side [02:04.24]North Side [02:04.52]It's astigmatism you got poor sight [02:05.80]Poor sight [02:06.02]Let the b***hes forget it I do it Alzheim' [02:07.75]Of course I [02:08.21]Of course I [02:08.53]Gotta voice my [02:09.03]Voice my [02:09.36]Opinion on that a*s when you walk past [02:12.41]On bro that s**t groovy ayy [02:14.48]N***as pull strings like a guitar guitar [02:16.04]G Star jeans on my sneakers [02:17.73]I'm a real soulful n***a collard greens inside your speakers [02:20.57]Yeah yeah [02:20.99]Ferguson days on Castro wasn't no cash flow [02:23.62]But I'm good for the arch I'm Dr. Scholl's [02:25.30]I'm good for your heart let me snatch your soul soul soul [02:28.67]Johnny Venus： [02:28.97]Bloody sacrifices [02:31.39]Saba： [02:32.55]Yeah ayy [02:33.97]Look at what a motherf**ker do for the cash intake [02:36.67]They'll be right across your head like it's Ash Wednesday [02:39.70]You got to just get off your a*s like your a*s is fake [02:43.02]You can't sit and if we ain't siblings then I can't relate [02:46.18]To they s**t I'm Asic I run s**t I got it jumpin' like pump fake [02:50.49]I don't need nothing but one take [02:52.06]I'm from the part of the city [02:53.07]Where young n***a keep him a nine like one plus eight [02:55.24]Our politician a f**kface [02:56.86]Corrupt like a dogg pound gangsta [02:58.49]We duel like a small town wager [03:00.19]How I'm the dropout major [03:01.67]Success stories I favor [03:03.27]Used to cover my scars out here tryna cover the fader [03:06.29]Yeah Pro Tools knobs and the faders [03:07.93]Tell pigs as salamu alaykum [03:09.61]You ain't 'bout static like AM radio ain't even play him [03:13.19]I put my heart and my all in my art I'm alternate [03:15.89]All of them are the same [03:17.22]It's harder to tell 'em apart some days [03:19.72]I thought I'd call 'em out altogether [03:21.57]Rather than waste the amount of bars [03:23.52]It'll take for me to call 'em out by name [03:26.38]Caught a glimpse of the alternate world I've introduced to you [03:29.47]Via the studio got 'em studying our mixtapes [03:32.78]I'm from the hood like my mama put that on my mama [03:35.57]I lay the law down like parliament all just with a pen and page [03:39.69]Johnny Venus： [03:40.76]I make sacrifices bloody sacrifices [03:46.58]J. Cole： [04:01.28]You can't be everything to everybody [04:03.75]I wanna be your lover your best friend [04:05.20]Your batman spider man [04:06.43]Fighter pilot shooting down your rivals and [04:08.08]I wanna d**n near kill you to be the one that heal you up [04:10.14]I wanna be the one that feel you up [04:11.35]On nights when you need good d**k to cheer you up [04:12.89]I wanna be the one to build you up [04:14.14]A wall worth five billion bucks to keep out the rah rah [04:16.33]And the blah blah blah so nobody try to steal your thunder [04:18.55]Pull you under [04:19.33]Toss my hopes out Royal Rumble [04:20.95]We done moved out to the boondocks [04:22.57]Built a big house there he wonders [04:24.24]How somewhere along the way [04:25.78]He went from Huey to Eddie Wuncler [04:27.52]I been so disconnected my perspective is ignorant [04:29.63]When you rich n***as don't wanna correct you [04:31.22]Say something crazy they won't interject [04:32.87]Do every drug that you want they gon' let you [04:34.57]Dangerous when it's nobody to check you [04:35.93]I be havin' to check myself [04:37.27]N***a stop holding that money you know you got plenty [04:39.09]I be havin' to spread my wealth [04:40.53]I used to be at the crib myself [04:42.13]7 years old off of Bragg Boulevard [04:43.62]Where they bag up the raw [04:44.47]They gon' stand on the corner one hand on they balls [04:46.08]And they ran when the cops come there go the laws [04:47.70]Then I packed up a bag [04:48.47]And I trapped it up north on the path of a star [04:50.14]And I ran into you like I met you before [04:51.68]Now d**n me and you goin' half on a boy sing [04:53.89]J. Cole： [04:54.05]Huggin' the block huggin' the block all day [04:57.30]I had nowhere to go she gave me a place to stay [05:00.37]She gave me her heart to hold I still got that s**t to this day [05:03.74]She ridin' with me on the road she ridin' with me in the A [05:07.10]Huggin' the block huggin' the block okay [05:10.24]She gave me the gift of my son and plus we got one on the way [05:13.45]She gave me a family to love for that I can never repay [05:16.70]I'm crying while writing these words [05:18.39]The tears they feel good on my face hey [05:20.60]J. Cole： [05:23.22]And yesterday could feel just like a waste yeah [05:29.25]If I don't love you how I'm supposed to [05:36.34]And yesterday could feel just like a waste yeah [05:42.24]If I don't love you how I'm supposed to [05:48.66]Johnny Venus： [05:51.35]I make sacrifices bloody sacrifices