Barbed Wire Lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

1 [Kendrick Lamar]

2 One time

3 Reporting live, Compton, California

4 Have you ever felt like, like you never get life?

5 Like you never get right? Sort of like a black sheep

6 Back down, backing out your dreams like some bad sleep

7 Chasing for the win but you never win the track meet

8 Oh, what a cold world for a broke nigga, it's bitter

9 and life's a bitch, don't hit women so I bit her

10 I struck enough pain, let her know I wasn't playing

11 I was so (Sincere) like Nas' first name

12 And back, they'd tell me, it's very difficult to see twenty-five

13 and if I survive I probably wouldn't sell it

14 My opportunities are low because my brown complexion floats

15 in the ghetto, rather in some heals like Giuseppe's

16 They want me unemployed, until I hit the streets

17 for filling voids of broke D-boys selling weed

18 Fucking up my prestige, till I live with the blues

19 B.B. King or the neighbors of Snoop

20 [Chorus: Kendrick Lamar (Ash Riser) {uncredited female}]

21 That's why I'm in the club like fuck it though

22 They say it's only one life, life, life

23 And if you say I can't live comfortable

24 I'ma tell you that's a lie, lie, lie

25 So while I hold this bottle of Ciroc with a hand full of ass

26 Celebrate the very day that I get past

27 (Through the barbed wire)

28 {We are, we are fighters

29 We are, we are true

30 Through the, through barbed wires

31 We will, will break through}

32 So while I hold this bottle of Ciroc with a hand full of ass

33 Celebrate the very day that I get past

34 (Through the barbed wire)

35 [Kendrick Lamar]

36 Have you ever felt like, like you never get life?

37 Like you never did right? Sort of like a black sheep

38 Tryna get away from the world stereotype

39 Barbed wire got a barricade on your destiny

40 She desperately in need of some inspiration, see what the people saying

41 She gon' have a baby, then flee from her education

42 At the age of sixteen, credit card scam schemes

43 See a scar on her eye, boyfriend brutality

44 She will never get by, no how, no way

45 Welfare recipient, property of the state

46 Housing, Section 8, corner store, prostitute

47 The owner bout to prosecute, the niggas tell her that she cute

48 Hoodrat trashy, six baby daddies

49 and this baby daddy is new to the family

50 Chilling in pajamies, waiting on the first

51 Fast-forward, spilling drinks on her fur

52 [Chorus: Kendrick Lamar (Ash Riser) {uncredited female}]

53 That's why she in the club like fuck it though

54 They say it's only one life, life, life

55 And if you say she can't live comfortable

56 She gon' tell you that's a lie, lie, lie

57 So while she up in V.I.P. pouring Merlot in her glass

58 Celebrate the very day that she get past

59 (Through the barbed wire)

60 {We are, we are fighters

61 We are, we are true

62 Through the, through barbed wires

63 We will, will break through}

64 So while she up in V.I.P. pouring Merlot in her glass

65 Celebrate the very day that she get past

66 (Through the barbed wire)

67 [Kendrick Lamar]

68 Have you ever felt like you finally got life?

69 You finally got right? No longer a black sheep

70 Living off your (dreams) like Christina uh-Milian in the front seat

71 of a convertible, eloping to get married

72 What a feeling of overcoming the odds

73 It's like you just hit the lottery, my God

74 There must be a God, cause golly

75 you done made it through the fight while squabbling, Ali

76 Now your lifestyle's looking up and you escaped the crooked cops

77 and you ain't have to kill a nigga just to make a couple bucks

78 And she ain't have to go and fuck on everybody for a dollar

79 Making good decisions, got an independent business mind

80 And both of y'all are steady grinding, doing it the legal way

81 Just tryna make a decent pay on every second of the day

82 But they won't give you the credit, disses out they mouth

83 You must have joined the Illuminati just to ball out

84 [Chorus: Kendrick Lamar (Ash Riser)]

85 In the club like fuck it though

86 They say it's only one life, life, life

87 And if you say they can't live comfortable

88 They gon' tell you that's a lie, lie, lie

89 So even if you overcame doubt and your living ain't bad

90 Know it's some barbed wire that's always in your path

91 (Through the barbed wire)

92 [Kendrick Lamar]

93 Just laugh, then everybody say

94 [Ash Riser]

95 Cause I won't get caught again

96 and I'm here to start the trend

97 You can't catch me if you try

98 Disappear into the night, and I'm gone

99 [Outro]

100 "So you made it past all the barbed wires?"

101 Just one more left [gun shot]