Believe - SonReal

Can you give me something to believe in?

Can you, can you give me something to believe in?

Can you?

Used to believe that I could be a pro at anything

Started down the street at just another shitty skating rink

Dad took his son there, teach his boy to slap shot

So he’ll make the team you know I’ll fuck 'em with my hands off

That turned to skating and the skating just turned to rappin'

Shit ain’t changed, I still got the same motive to make it happen

Like feeling on the far side, tryna get a little closer

Cause they know I got a flow that be draining on all these hoses

From that city where if you rappin' ain’t no one who gonna know you

But we got enough talent to wake 'em up with no Folgers

So I believe, that’s what I tell 'em when they ask

And that’s the reason I started whopping ass like

Rappers say my name in their songs, I don’t even bother

Cause the level that they on don’t even worth coming back harder

Plus I be tryna build my legacy off what I tend to be

Not off doing shit so outlandish you remember me like

Oh, I just do it for my city and the people at the shows who really be fucking

with me

Oh, I just do it for the fizz act, if you needing this shit then you ain’t

gotta do is ask

If I gave you something to believe in

Could you say my name?

And if you gave me something to believe in

Could I do the same?

Like, if I make you smile, if I make you smile

I’ve done my job at last

And if you make me smile, if you make me smile

Then we all gonna laugh

Can you give me something to believe in?

Can you, can you give me something to believe in?

Can you?

Like if I make you smile, if I make you smile

I’ve done my job at last

And if you make me smile, if you make me smile

Then we all gonna laugh

Used to believe that I can be a pro at anything

Started at the skate park, jumping down that hammer lane

Bust my elbow open three times 'fore I perfected it

From that moment on I was gonna get respected

Shit ain’t changed, I still got the same ambition

All my flaws, I just flip 'em round and use 'em as ammunition

Just a little kid bumping Cube up in the kitchen

While my parents wasn’t home cause the swearing had 'em tripping

But he made me believe and believing was all I needed so

When I close my eyes I can see what I was dreaming, oh

This shit ain’t no rocket science, I been on my rocket ship

Been a long time coming so let them fool who just talking shit

Last year I felt I went harder than most

So when we get it poppin' this year don’t treat me like a joke

You was that red swallow that started up the bravado

My city gave me the lead so I knew that I’d never follow like

Oh, I just do it for my city and the people at the shows who really be fucking

with me

Oh, I just do it for the fizz act, if you needing this shit then you ain’t

gotta do is ask

If I gave you something to believe in

Could you say my name?

And if you gave me something to believe in

Could I do the same?

Like, if I make you smile, if I make you smile

I’ve done my job at last

And if you make me smile, if you make me smile

Then we all gonna laugh

Can you give me something to believe in?

Can you, can you give me something to believe in?

Can you?

Like if I make you smile, if I make you smile

I’ve done my job at last

And if you make me smile, if you make me smile

Then we all gonna laugh

Wiz Khalifa laugh

You know I feel like we getting a lot closer

Hmm, never been one for the band wagon

Always been on train when the pants saggin'

And in my head I was visualizing them fans waving

To the words that I wrote, to the words that you know

From the word believe to the words we go

I’ve never been amazing, I’m just hungry

That’s the reasoning behind all of my struggles

They feel what you be believing and I share with you my story

Through this broken chair I’m seated in, a C- student

But they say I’m on some genius shit, let the beat ride, let the beat ride

Let me speak my BAD 'fore IDIE, I gotta show you something throughout my three

eye

On my third eye, let my words fly’like a pelican, cocky but I’m elegant

So tell me why this motherfucker raising hell again

Momma told me use just what you got

I got 'em feeling Nemo as soon as my chorus stop

Stop, no, drop, yes, that’s me, what’s up?

They say that they ready so I serve 'em like a butler

I saw rappers pass me, they was moving like a trucker

So I switch my gears, hope I ain’t going like no sucker

Truth be told my truth ain’t the same when the truth be told

So when the truth get dropped start moving slow until they gravitate and start

lose control

Like I could lose it all and barely feel a bruise at all

I’d rather fail at trying than never even go try at all

And if I write that classic shit then I ain’t gotta die at all

Homie, I ain’t gotta die at all

Believe