Closer Lyrics - Drake

1 ''[Intro: Drake talking]''

2 Yeah I remember me and, me and D used to talk about this kind of stuff all the time

3 Like what it's gonna be like when you get closer to your dreams

4 I didn't know much then but, probably tell you a lil' somethin' now

5 ''[Verse 1: Drake]''

6 Mr. Big Dreams no tolerance

7 Cut you at the house and haven't hollered since

8 Get bored quickly

9 He stay grown

10 So the p-a-trãn had to get poured quickly

11 Ex girl strippin'

12 I can't stop her

13 New girl trippin' but I can't drop her

14 'Cause I need somethin' to balance out the fact

15 That it's hard to find a woman when you' talented and black

16 When you hollerin' at labels

17 And they silencing you back

18 'Cause you fail to thoroughly discuss some violence in ya track

19 Well

20 Gunshot for the young yacht owner

21 See there's everybody else then there's one top loner

22 First place is often the worst place

23 But fuck it I love it here I call it my birthplace

24 Whenever I walk in they makin' the worst face

25 Surrounded by Fillipinos I think of the worst case

26 Watch blue and green diamonds I call it the earth face

27 I'm gettin' ya cake I tell you how ya dessert taste

28 I get a dessert plate

29 Y'all eat pedigree as ya meal

30 I've been Urkel for some years it's better bein' Jaleel

31 Though I rock lean snap it's better bein' this real

32 It's better drivin' a car with the letter B in the wheel

33 Seat back

34 Light sayin' tank on E

35 I got the drank on me

36 You better bank on me

37 To be the one and only nigga that you ain't gon' see

38 In the club with a model spillin' drinks on me

39 Nah

40 Gimme 20 in the tank on 3

41 I'm in the Range bumpin' Keyshia Cole

42 Singin' off-key like ''[Andreena harmonizes]''

43 I'mma spare y'all

44 Why you wanna judge me

45 I don't ever compare y'all

46 The city is mine

47 I know it because I'm there y'all

48 It ain't even started I'm really tryna prepare y'all

49 Spring '07 second quarter I'm droppin'

50 With or without a label man I'm committed to poppin'

51 And take over the summer

52 Tour to tour hoppin'

53 I'mma meet a lot of women I'mma do a lot of shoppin'

54 Really no other option

55 Spend a lot of money just to make it back

56 Anybody I dissed in a song I don't take it back

57 Same rappers that's all in ya face sayin' Drake is wack

58 Are checkin' my availability just to make a track

59 I promise mama

60 I'mma do it 'cause I know I put you through it (I know I put you through it baby)

61 And I just want you to sit around with ya friends at a dinner table

62 And say "my baby's famous and I knooow it" (yeah)

63 And it wasn't nothin' tooo it

64 I've drawn it and drew it 'til the pen was out of fluid

65 The ballpoint run out

66 Then all joints come out classic

67 Rappers are fake we can all point one out

68 ''[Drake Talking]''

69 Yeah

70 I'd like to introduce you to the first lady of the ATF (uhh)

71 Miss Andreena Mill

72 ''[Chorus: Andreena Mill]''

73 Closer to my dreams I'm gettin' higher

74 Yeah I feel it in my sleep

75 I said I'm gettin' higher

76 Yeah

77 And closer to my dreams

78 Whoa

79 Sometimes it feels like I'll never move on

80 Closer to my dreams

81 ''[Verse 2: Drake]''

82 Look

83 I took a plane to Hawaii with D

84 And we was trippin' off of the speed at which life progressed

85 From meetin' Trey in Atlanta to doin' a cameo in his video

86 Which made everything right with X (Songz)

87 I got too many records and not enough shows

88 For too many rappers and not enough __

89 Well

90 You can fill the blank in

91 They tryna be the best

92 Just tryna place in the rankin'

93 Day care play pen drop out

94 To grade ten drop out

95 To summer '05 with the grey Benz drop out

96 Charcoal Charger

97 Racin' through back streets

98 On my (Craig David) shit the (Artful Dodger)

99 Shola Ama

100 I told her I'mma

101 'Bout to get my run on so hold the commas

102 Times've changed now I'm older mama

103 And these niggas ain't solid they fold in drama

104 And that's the realest shit I ever wrote

105 A compilation of mental thoughts that I never note

106 And hi, haters

107 I'm back off of hiatus

108 How ya album doin'?

109 I'm gettin' cake off of my latest

110 Anticipated like the iPhone

111 Respected in any city that I roam

112 Summertime

113 Wintertime

114 Dinnertime

115 Anytime

116 Bet I am the nigga in my town when I arrive

117 Home

118 ''[Outro: Drake talking]''

119 Yeah one more time 'fore we turn the lights out ladies and gentleman

120 (Sing it to' em 'Dreena) lights 'bout to go down, curtains 'bout to close but

121 I want y'all to enjoy yourself on the way out, yeah man

122 (Yeah man)

123 ''[Chorus]''