Fire Fly Lyrics - Childish Gambino

1 [Hook]

2 Now when they see us on the streets

3 All they wanna do is take pics

4 And I'm like, okay (yeah, okay)

5 And when they hear us on the beat

6 All they wanna do is make hits

7 And I'm like, okay (yeah, okay)

8 And if you're feelin' like I'm feelin'

9 How the world should be: perfectly

10 Fire like I’m third degree, and suddenly

11 Shawty, we got so high

12 Fire Fly

13 [Verse 1]

14 Skateboardin' down at Washington Square

15 Lookin' for quarters

16 Maybe afford a falafel for dinner, ugh

17 I’m so broke man

18 Scholarship apology

19 Facebook messages from college kids who hollerin'

20 Girls like, "we love you, we go to LSU

21 You gotta do a show so we can come and molest you"

22 This rap stuff is magic

23 I used to get called "Oreo" and "Faggot"

24 I used to get more laughs when I got laughed at

25 Oh you got a mixtape? That's fantastic

26 But everybody thought it was jokes though

27 They half right, the joke is

28 I got flow so don't act like

29 You ain't sittin' there with your friends like, it can't be

30 I know Donald Glover, he weak man, he can't be

31 I'm still knocked down, but I up the ante

32 Me and hip-hop, that black Sid and Nancy

33 [Hook]

34 [Verse 2]

35 It's hard to make HOV the footsteps you followin'

36 Especially when your niggas look like Carlton

37 The pretty girls usin' skin so soft

38 Only be likin' black dudes with their hats broke off

39 Man you act too soft

40 Fuck you! I'm from the projects

41 My mom was just workin' to give me options

42 No live shows, cause I can't find sponsors

43 For the only black kid at a Sufjan concert

44 Yeah so, whatcha gonna do man?

45 You won't speak to the hood, man

46 If I was given one chance I think I could, man

47 These black kids want somethin' new, I swear it

48 Somethin' they wanna say but couldn't cause they embarrassed

49 All I do is make the stuff I wanna write

50 Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite

51 Now I'm firefly like a burning kite

52 And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

53 Even dudes who like me straight lookin' at me crazy

54 Like, how the hell he drop a EP and meet Jay-Z?

55 Girls used to tell me I ain't cool enough

56 Now text me pics sayin', "You could tear this up"

57 I don't really like shades, big rims, or jewelry

58 But gettin' time of day from a model is new to me

59 Bein' me isn't as hard as it used to be

60 Now everyone sing the chorus man, you do it so beautifully

61 [Hook x2]