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June 16, 2009

Lupe Fiasco "Shining Down" - MP3, Lyrics (updated)



Apparently this is the first single from Lupe Fiasco's We Are Lasers.. featuring Matthew Santos once again on guest vocals. (via TSS). Not a huge fan of this sound but I like what he's writing.

  • Lupe Fiasco "Shining Down" - MP3

    EDIT: Lupe has posted on a fan site to say he did not intend for this to be leaked, and doesn't want people to link it, so although I think he should reconsider his position on downloading I will take the mp3 link down out of respect.. the lyrics are still below though:

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    Lupe Fiasco "Shining Down" Lyrics

    look up in the sky
    look up in the sky

    you thought I was down
    you thought I was gone
    that I went around
    thought I left you alone

    but look up in the sky
    just look up in the sky
    see that I'm everywhere
    shining down on you

    well well, is it our little author
    coming back humming his hymns a little altered
    your attention put back on the flow like the department of water
    taking off of the door like Little Walter(?)
    Chess yes baby i'm Jerry Lawler
    rebel with a cause, outlaw with a lawyer
    judge jury like a loop(?) rap name Lupe
    but my daddy named me warrior
    this is a memorial

    you thought I was down
    you thought I was gone
    that I went around
    thought I left you alone

    but look up in the sky
    just look up in the sky
    see that I'm everywhere
    shining down on you

    no, i ain't the nigga trying to get a liquor line
    when i be scripting lines, want this petition signed
    it says i'm sick of dying, sick of this prison time
    i really love my people i'm sick of pimping mine

    now if we autotune that shit
    we can hear the songs from that opera grown fat b*tch
    tellin us not to pursue it just to shoo it like a blacksmith
    we trapped and movin round in circles like it's chapstick

    and that's the same encircled way of thinking that we chat with
    well wrap this like around your head like the bandanas
    Fabolous used to wrap his hat with
    rather be in FEDS instead of National Geographics
    well I'm not having it

    you thought I was down
    you thought I was gone
    that I went around (?)
    thought I left you alone

    but look up in the sky
    just look up in the sky
    see that I'm everywhere
    shining down on you

    so i say hello and this is for the third time
    to everybody out there that ain't never heard lines
    and if you have then you know you ain't never heard lyin
    Lu don't move no cowards (cow-words), you only heard lions
    not a facade cherisher i'd rather have the scars
    i don't idolize america, i'm dancing with the stars
    all of them yeah they are too
    you look up and all of us shining down on you

    Lupe Fiasco "Shining Down" Lyrics



    Posted by jsmooth995 at June 16, 2009 5:06 PM






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