Lucky Me Lyrics - Vol. 1: In My Lifetime - Jay-z

How can you fairly assess something from the outside looking in? 

There's gotta be them times you'll be wrong. Nah Mean? 

How can a mother fucka go round and hate a nigga 

he never even met that he dont even know and shit? 

I think this rap shit is all beef 

Y'all dont even know every day I'm livin with stress 

Got up out the streets you think a nigga could rest 

Can't even enjoy myself at a party unless 

I'm on the dance floor hot ass vest 

You think I'm freakin' these chicks right? 

I'try not to brush against they chest 

You get a lawsuit for shit like that, I feel trapped 

Swear to everything when I leave this earth 

It's gon' be on both feet, never knees in the dirt 

You could try me fucka but when I squeeze it hurts, fine 

We'll lose two lives, yours and mines 

Gimme any amount of time dont let Ms. Carter grieve 

at the funeral parlor drippin' tears on my sleeve 

Told the judge didn't budge it was him or me 

and I ain't trying to be hard but I'm guilty as charged 

Put my mercy on this court and my faith in God 

And pray hard none of my nephews wanna be stars... Lucky Me 

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[Chorus: Karen Anderson] 

You only know what you see, 

You dont understand what it takes to be me. 

I hate all girls with alterior motives 

That's why I'm twenty plus years old, no sons no daughters 

Hate putting my life in the hands of fake promoters 

Hear the hate in my voice right? I hate that you noticed 

Niggas wanna strip to the bone for shit you own 

Hate a nigga like that faggot, get your own 

Hate that I can't roam the street without the clip and chrome 

Knowing one day Im'a have to flip, c'mon 

You know the shit don't stop 'til the Crist don't pop 

And you have to kill a nigga and your wrist don't lock 

I'm trapped the whole worlds against me in fact, 

It aint no turning back. Bring It On 

Hate the price of fame cause it cost too much 

Can I live without y'all niggas saying I floss too much? 

Hate the way you make this hate flow all through us 

Steady looking for flaws through us... Lucky Me 

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[Chorus: Karen Anderson, Jay-Z] 

You only know what you see, 

You dont understand what it takes to be me 

You only know what you see, 

(Since I was 4 years old, I been told, everything that glitters ain't gold) 

You dont understand what it takes to be me 

(And now that I've arrived 

I see those truths unfold before my eyes in this world so cold) 

Nigga see you in the street, pretend to be friendly 

But I know any type of success breeds envy 

I know in the back of your mind your conjuring ways to hen me 

Leave my friends in a circle pouring out Henny 

But G's is heaven bound so how I'm gon' receive 

Anything y'all pour to the ground next time throw it up 

And ain't nothing changed so even in my afterlife I show it up 

Dont grieve for me my art remains 

like a dart from the speaker to your heart 

Spiritually through the portal now my words as a mortal 

Plan to leave without a fight I plant a seed I give life 

Though I can't see past the girls greed to call her wife 

Next time your thinking heist better be precise 

Cause I'm fully prepared. One of us is gon' leave here 

I have no regrets even though I wanna see grow 

My godsons Boogie, Sonny and Rimo 

[Chorus x 4]