Own This City Lyrics - Kendrick Lamar

[Chorus] 

You can own this city 

You have everything you need 

All it takes is all you got 

Life don't ask you if you're ready or not 

You can own this city 

Deep inside you hold the key 

While the world is fast asleep 

You can take it all if you just dare to dream 

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[Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar] 

Talk about goals 

Talk about a pen and a pad and the pad of your house 

With a permanent flow 

Hennessy on the floor looking at a video on the couch 

And the couch is cold 

And the pouch in your mama pocket got a permanent hole 

And your brother pout 'cause he want food on the stove 

And a pedestal with a silver spoon, and a big pool 

With a big room and a closet, cause it 

Hurt when you laughing at his clothes 

Looking at him like he ain't shit 

Forever living in that commode 

Time flies and I watch it tick 

Look in the mirror and I gotta take risk 

Like blood on the sheet of a suicide note 

Tripod then I aim it at your soul 

For bright lights 

Bite like a alligator when I write 

Hungry, come see determination upon me 

Come see the visionary in my sight 

My life premeditated by ambition 

Pistons from my Nikes take off 

No assistance, I'm persistent 

Adolf wouldn't look at you with this thought 

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[Chorus] 

You can own this city 

You have everything you need 

All it takes is all you got 

Life don't ask you if you're ready or not 

You can own this city 

Deep inside you hold the key 

While the world is fast asleep 

You can take it all if you just dare to dream 

[Verse 2: Kendrick Lamar] 

Let's talk about pressure 

Let's talk about depression 

Let's talk about desperate 

Times 

Everyday I'm guessin' 

My mind, I never end up resting 

I climb a ladder every second 

I find another mountain top 

Another video I watch when a video go off 

I jot like Edgar Allen, matter fact a thousand 

Soldiers never could war off my talents 

I wanna reassure my talents 

I wipe my face but never throw my towel in 

I'm often prowlin' 

The edge of a quantum jump in my head 

I'm a monster from anywhere but Earth 

And I'm 1 of 1 ever since my birth, I came for some bright lights 

Bite like a bear trap when I write 

Hungry, gotta chip on my shoulder 

I took it off and ate it 

I made it a full meal 

And I'm still craving, my front teeth 

I sink in the rap game 

My name will attract fame 

My veins got the blood of a king in it 

When it pours down, now Snoop's on stage and he say 

Kendrick 

[Chorus] 

You can own this city 

You have everything you need 

All it takes is all you got 

Life don't ask you if you're ready or not 

You can own this city 

Deep inside you hold the key 

While the world is fast asleep 

You can take it all if you just dare to dream 

[Bridge: Kendrick Lamar] 

So what you gonna do? 

What you gonna do? 

You can run, you can hide 

But when you are chosen 

The walls they close in 

Your forefathers look you in your eyes 

So what you gonna do? 

What you gonna do? 

You can run, you can hide 

But when you are chosen 

The walls they close in 

Your forefathers look you in your eyes 

[Chorus] 

You can own this city 

You have everything you need 

All it takes is all you got 

Life don't ask you if you're ready or not 

You can own this city 

Deep inside you hold the key 

While the world is fast asleep 

You can take it all if you just dare to dream