Shining Down (Explicit Album Version) — Lupe Fiasco

Look up in the sky

Look up in the sky

Look up in the sky

You thought I was down

You thought I was gone

Thought I wasn't around

That I left you alone

But look up in the sky

Just look up in the sky

See that I'm everywhere 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 dough 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 his memorial

You thought I was down

You thought I was gone

Thought I wasn't around

That I left you alone

But look up in the sky

Just look up in the sky

See that I'm everywhere everywhere

Shining down on you

No I ain't the ni**a 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 auto-tune that sh*t

We can hear the songs from that opera grown fat b*tch

Tellin us not to pursue it just to shoe 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 hats 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

Thought I wasn't around

That I left you alone

But look up in the sky

Just look up in the sky

See that I'm everywhere 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 mine

And if you have then you know you ain't never heard lyin

Lu don't moo no cow-words you've only heard lines

Not a facade cherisher I'd rather have the scars

I don't idolize America I'm dancing with the stars

Uh huh all of them yeah they are too

You look up and all of us shining down on you

You thought I was down

You thought I was gone

Thought I wasn't around

That I left you alone

But look up in the sky

Just look up in the sky

See that I'm everywhere everywhere

Shining down on you

Shining down on you

Shining down on you

Shining down on you