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Artist: Dreamville + more *
Album:  Revenge of the Dreamers III
Song:   Sacrifices
Typed by: Cedmaster3K

* J. Cole, EARTHGANG, Saba, Smino
 
[Intro: Johnny Venus]
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
 
[Johnny Venus]
That nigga back from the dead, yeah, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know
Nigga almost lost his head, yeah, try to run, try to fly, try to float
Candles on top of the dresser, baby you down, need to bless up
Better watch how you address us, playin no games, no dress-up
I got an idea
Let's shoot "Wild 'N Out" in my hood, talkin' right here
Academy Award nominated performance, yeah
Let the AK spray straight for four minutes, yeah
That's a monologue, talkin to the fog, fuck an ordinance, yeah
 
[Chorus: Johnny Venus]
I make sacrifices
Bloody sacrifices
Cutthroat, rabbit's toe
I suppose
Maybe that's what life is…
 
[Johnny Venus]
Ayy man (cavemen) two drinks (cave in) few blunts (ease up) ooh yeah (please up)
Who cares? (Who there?) do what (wake up) the hell (heaven) we want (heads up)
Hey you (yeah you) mother fuck (brother fuck) sister fuck (family fuck) the system (get some)
Hey you (day two) yeah you (you you) you a vege' (do the dance) stripper (get low)
Chopped cheese (knot knees) boy please (whatever) you next (to death) to go (ooh-oh)
Who's that? (Ring ring) your number (bling bling) call it up (chalk it up) move over
 
[Chorus: Johnny Venus]
I make sacrifices
Bloody sacrifices
Cutthroat, rabbit's toe
I suppose
 
[Smino]
Mmm, uh
Shit lookin' all red from the North with the pole, it ain't Santa Claus
Brought my gifts to Atlanta, I'm Atlanta Claus
I can smell you pussy with the panties off
I, been gettin' to the bread, tryna keep this shit low, but it ain't workin'
My, circle on fire like a circus now, around the same niggas I been around so
Of course I (of course I) endorse my
(endorse my) ratchet ass niggas from the Northside (Northside)
It's astigmatism, you got poor sight
(poor sight) let the bitches forget it, I do it Alzheim'
Of course I (of course I) gotta voice my
(voice my) opinion on that ass when you walk past
(On bro, that shit groovy, ayy)
Niggas pull strings like a guitar, guitar, G-Star jeans on my sneakers
I'm a real soulful nigga, collard greens inside your speakers (yeah yeah)
Ferguson days on Castro, wasn't no cash flow
But I'm good for the arch, I'm Dr. Scholls
I'm good for your heart, let me snatch your soul
Soul, soul, soul, soul
 
[Johnny Venus]
Bloody sacrifices, -es, -es-es-es-es
 
[Saba]
Yeah, ayy
Look at what a motherfucker do for the cash intake
They'll be, right across your head like it's Ash Wednesday
You got to, just get off your ass like your ass is fake, heh
You can't sit, and if we ain't siblings then I can't relate
To they shit I'm Asic, I run shit, I got it jumpin' like pump fake
I don't need nothin but one take - I'm from the part of the city
where young nigga keep him a nine like one plus eight, our politician a fuckface
+Kurupt+ like a Dogg Pound Gangsta, we duel like a small town wager
How I'm the dropout major? Success stories I favor
Used to cover my scars, out here tryna cover The Fader
Yeah, Pro Tools, knobs and the faders, tell pigs as-salamu alaykum
You ain't 'bout static like AM radio, ain't even play him
I put my heart and my all in my art, I'm alternate
All of them are the same, it's harder to tell 'em apart some days
I thought I'd call 'em out altogether rather than waste
the amount of bars it'll take for me to call 'em out by name
Caught a glimpse of the alternate world I've introduced to you
via the studio, got 'em studyin our mixtapes
I'm from the hood like my momma, put that on my momma
I lay the law down like parliament, all just with a pen and page
 
[Chorus: Johnny Venus]
I make sacrifices
Bloody sacrifices…
 
[J. Cole]
You can't be e'rything to e'rybody, I wanna be your lover, your best friend
Your Batman, Spider-Man, fighter pilot shootin down your rivals and
I wanna damn near kill you to be the one that heal you up
I wanna be the one that feel you up
On nights when you need good dick to cheer you up, I wanna be the one to build you up
A wall worth five billion bucks to keep out the rah-rah and the blah-blah-blah
so nobody try to steal your thunder, pull you under, toss my hopes out, Royal Rumble
We done moved out, to +The Boondocks+, built a big house, there he wonders
How somewhere, along the way, he went from Huey to Eddie Wuncler
I been so disconnected, my perspective is ignorant
when you rich, niggas don't wanna correct you
Say somethin crazy, they won't interject
do every drug that you want, they gon' let you
Dangerous when it's nobody to check you, I be havin' to check myself
Nigga stop holdin that money, you know you got plenty
I be havin' to spread my wealth
I used to be at the crib myself
7 years old off of Bragg Boulevard where they bag up the raw
They gon' stand on the corner
one hand on they balls and they ran when the cops come, there go the laws
Then I packed up a bag and I trapped it up north on the path of a star
And I ran into you like I met you before now damn, me and you goin' half on a boy
Sing - huggin' the block, huggin' the block, all day
I had nowhere to go, she gave me a place to stay
She gave me her heart to hold, I still got that shit to this day
She ridin' with me on the road, she ridin' with me in the A
Huggin' the block, huggin' the block, okay
She gave me the gift of my son, and plus we got one on the way
She gave me a family to love, for that, I can never repay
I'm cryin while writing these words, the tears they feel good on my face, hey
 
[Interlude: J. Cole - singing]
And yesterday could feel just like a waste, yeah
If I don't love you, how I'm supposed toooo
And yesterday could feel just like a waste, yeah
If I don't love you, how I'm supposed toooo
 
[Chorus: Johnny Venus]
I make sacrifices…
Bloody sacrifices…
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