Champion Lyrics - Kanye West

1 '''Donald Fagen:'''

2 Did you realize

3 That you were a champion in their eyes?

4 '''Kanye West:'''

5 Yes I did, so I packed it up and brought it back to the crib

6 Just a little somethin', show you how we live

7 Everybody want it but it ain't that serious

8 Mmm hmm, that's that shit

9 So if you gon' do it, do it just like this

10 '''Donald Fagen:'''

11 Did you realize

12 That you were a champion in their eyes?

13 '''Kanye West:'''

14 You don't see just how wild the crowd is?

15 You don't see just how fly my style is?

16 I don't see why I need a stylist

17 When I shop so much I can speak Italian

18 I don't know I just want it better for my kids

19 And I ain't sayin' we was from the projects

20 But every time I wanted, layaway or a deposit

21 My daddy'd say, "When you see clothes, close your eyelids"

22 We was sort of like Will Smith and his son

23 In the movie, I ain't talkin' 'bout the rich ones

24 'Cause every summer he'd get some

25 Brand new hare-brained scheme to get rich from

26 And I don't know what he did for dough

27 But he'd send me back to school wit' a new wardrobe

28 '''Donald Fagen and Kanye West:'''

29 (And hey, hey, hey, hey)

30 Did you realize

31 That you were a champion in their eyes?

32 '''Kanye West:'''

33 I think he did, when he packed it up and brought it back to the crib

34 Just a little somethin' show you how we lived

35 Everything I wanted man it seemed so serious

36 Mmm hmm, that's that shit

37 So if you gon' do it, do it just like this

38 '''Donald Fagen:'''

39 Did you realize

40 That you were a champion in their eyes?

41 '''Kanye West:'''

42 When it feel like living's harder than dying

43 For me giving up's way harder than trying

44 Lauryn Hill said her heart was in Zion

45 I wish her heart still was in rhyming

46 'Cause who the kids gon' listen to, huh?

47 I guess me if it isn't you

48 Last week, I paid a visit to the institute

49 They got the dropout keeping kids in the school

50 I guess I cleaned up my act like Prince'd do

51 If not for pleasure, then at least for the principle

52 They got the CD, they got to see me

53 Drop gems like I dropped out of PE

54 They used to feel invisible

55 Now they know they invincible

56 '''Donald Fagen and Kanye West:'''

57 (Hey, hey, hey)

58 Did you realize

59 That you were a champion in their eyes?

60 '''Connie Mitchell:'''

61 This is the story of a champion

62 Runners on your mark and they pop the guns

63 Stand up, stand up, here he comes

64 Tell me what it takes to be number one

65 Tell me what it takes to be number one

66 This is the story of a champion

67 Runners on your mark and they pop the guns

68 Stand up, stand up, here he comes

69 Tell me what it takes to be number one

70 Tell me what it takes to be number one

71 '''Donald Fagen:'''

72 Did you realize

73 That you were a champion in their eyes?

74 '''Kanye West:'''

75 Yes I did, so I packed it up and brought it back to the crib

76 Just a little somethin' show you how we live

77 Everybody want it but it ain't that serious

78 Mmm hmm, that's that shit

79 So if you gon' do it, do it just like this

80 '''Donald Fagen:'''

81 Did you realize

82 That you were a champion in their eyes?