Eli Arbor - GPOY (Glover Intro) lyrics

[Intro] Everyone wants to be their self That's just like everybody else Which begs the question: Who am I? I hope that Pitchfork doesn't hate this I hope that this is my ticket to all of these majors and magazine pages Who am I? [Verse, Part 1] Picture a kid he's in the back of your cla**es He may be fat or with gla**es or combination of the two He's a little bit strange, he doesn't quite fit in, and he hates change But I'm sure that the kid just wants to be happy too And his hair's kinda nappy too, his legs a bit ashy too And he never says "thank you" if you say "bless you" It's nothing personal, you can't bring a blessing on his life and end his strife Cause he doesn't believe in God, he only believes in idols He's slighty antagonistic and mildly suicidal Cartoons he refers, solitude he prefers Because he likes to eat without the lunch room laughing at him It feels like they're always laughing at him He puts on headphones to escape into a world of sound And once he left this planet he just never came down Cause he couldn't stop chasing the feeling he found And it was weird cause no one ever really knew him before Black kid and he was constantly called an Oreo He was into Iron Maiden, didn't quite get his drawl Started out at The Awesome and ended up at The Crawl Thank you to mc chris, for introducing us Cause he liked skinny jeans and liked to skate as much And he liked Star Wars and he hated Brady Bunch And now he's rapping over Grizzly Bear like "what the f**?" That sh**'s exactly what he needed Felt his world fell apart and retreated just as the waters receded But as he grew, he got the sh** that he needed Finds every article he can sits down and f**in reads it [Verse, Part 2] Picture a kid he's in the back of your cla**es He may be fat or with gla**es or combination of the two He's a little bit strange, he doesn't quite fit in, and he hates change But I'm sure that the kid just wants to be happy too He's not the smartest on in the lecture But he's got the most pa**ion for what's important He wants to interrupt with conjecture but he feels self-conscious and that's unfortunate He hates the cla**, 'cause math is slowly s**ing his soul He's not meant to crunch numbers meant to tell the untold There's a world we can visit if we go outside And he intends to find it, so Switches to a major where he can know himself And all the while you showed him he could flow himself That not every rapper had to tell the same story From the glory of the Culdesac To Telegraph Ave before me Like, that sh**'s was exactly what he needed Felt his world fall apart and he didn't know what he needed But as he grew he got the sh** that he needed Took the whole script late at night, he sat down and f**in reads it And this is because of you, this is because The Internet This song's my GPOY, I know this life's of interest I started a poindexter, I'll end up in Kauai Losin weight telling myself that the cake was a lie But you never lied about it You told the awkward truth they tried to hide about it Middle-cla** black, in a place where you're judged by your race Remember having white kids call me "n***a" to my face I thought that I had to take it, their molds that I couldn't break it When n***as told me I talk too white, well I had to fake it So I went from Bryant Gumbel to Wu-tang Switched the slang to show ain't nothin but a G thang I changed myself so they'd stop seeing me Cause bein different makes you a target easily and repeatedly I thought it was who I needed to be To get what I needed from them for those who needed me But changing everything changes who you are I am a shooting star, here today but gone tomorrow I am a shooting star, here today but gone tomorrow I am a shooting star, here today but gone tomorrow You taught me n***as ain't a monolith, gave me a real sound for it You made music for n***as that was searching for a sponsorship Music for kids on bridges that's starin at the ground Wonderin about life and thinking about what's wrong with it Thinking about how long it is, the heart and how strong it is Their taunts and their responses then The world was all monsters then We'd listen intently to the wind, trying to find the songs that we knew we meant to sing Cause we was never meant to sling, and we was never meant to one day end up in the system full of sin We was never meant to win, that was set at the begin We was never meant to win, that was set at the begin These mental acrobatics, celiacs and asthmatics Nerds with bad habits, and n***as into Bad Rabbits Girls with yarn braids, girls that's clean shaved And girls that like the first few albums from Green Day n***as that like Blink, girls with dark skin Girls with light skin who stop acting divisive n***as that's only trappin so they could buy synths And girls who sit back and let the story begin There's girls who love him, n***as that hate themselves There's girls over the sink that's puttin themselves through hell n***as that like p**y and n***as that like dick n***as who like both and neither, it don't matter which Girls that like boys, girls that hate God There's n***as who like girls who don't mind being odd Girls that like nothing and girls that like girls This song's dedicated to you all over the world [Outro] You're a shooting star here today but gone tomorrow (x8)