i Lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

1 "We got a young brother that stands for something! We got a young brother that believes in the all of us! Brother Kendrick Lamar! He's not a rapper, he's a writer, he's an author! And if you read between the lines, we'll learn how to love one another! But you can't do that—right on!—I said, you can't do that without loving yourself first. "

2 (This is a world premiere)

3 I done been through a whole lot

4 Trial, tribulation, but I know God

5 Satan wanna put me in a bow tie

6 Praying that the holy water don't go dry (get it, get it)

7 As I look around me

8 So many motherfuckers wanna down me

9 But an enemigo never drown me

10 In front of a dirty double-mirror they found me

11 And I love myself

12 (The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs)

13 I love myself

14 (But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don’t mind)

15 I love myself

16 (He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)

17 I love myself

18 (One day at a time, sun gon' shine)

19 Everybody looking at you crazy (Crazy)

20 What you gon' do? (What you gon' do?)

21 Lift up your head and keep moving (Keep moving)

22 Or let the paranoia haunt you? (Haunt you)

23 Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart

24 On my sleeve, let the runway start

25 You know the miserable do love company

26 What do you want from me and my scars?

27 Everybody lack confident, everybody lack confident

28 How many times our potential was anonymous?

29 How many times the city making me promises?

30 So I promise this

31 And I love myself

32 (The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs)

33 I love myself

34 (But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don’t mind)

35 I love myself

36 (He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)

37 I love myself

38 (One day at a time, sun gon' shine)

39 They wanna say there's a war outside and a bomb in the street

40 And a gun in the hood and a mob of police

41 And a rock on the corner and a line full of fiends

42 And a bottle full of lean and a model on a scheme, yup

43 These days of frustration, keep y'all on tuck and rotation

44 I duck these gold faces, post up fee-fi-fo-fum basis

45 Dreams of realities peace

46 Blow steam in the face of the beast

47 The sky can fall down, the wind can cry now

48 The strong in me, I still smile

49 And I love myself

50 (The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs)

51 I love myself

52 (But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don’t mind)

53 I love myself

54 (He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)

55 I love myself

56 (One day at a time, sun gon' shine)

57 Walk my bare feet (Walk my bare feet)

58 Down, down valley deep (Down, down valley deep)

59 I keep my fee-fi-fo-fum (Fee-fi-fo-fum)

60 I keep my heart undone (My heart undone)

61 And I love myself

62 (The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs)

63 I love myself

64 (But it can do what it want whenever it wants and I don’t mind)

65 I love myself

66 (He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide)

67 I love myself

68 (One day at a time, sun gon' shine)

69 I went to war last night

70 With an automatic weapon, don't nobody call a medic

71 Imma do it 'til I get it right

72 I went to war last night

73 I've been dealing with depression ever since an adolescent

74 Duckin' every other blessin', I can never see the message

75 I could never take the lead, I could never bob and weave

76 From a negative and letting em annihilate me

77 And its evident I'm moving at a meteor speed

78 Finna run into a building, lay my body in the street

79 Keep my money in the ceiling, let my mama know I'm free

80 Give my story to the children and the lesson they can read

81 And the glory to the feeling of the only unseen

82 Seen enough, make a motherfucker scream, "I love myself!"

83 I lost my head

84 I must misread what the good book said

85 Oh woes be me, it's a jungle inside

86 Give myself again 'til the well runs dry