Heard 'em Say Featuring Adam Levine Of Maroon lyrics

Song information

Artist: Kanye West
Album: Late Registration

Lyrics

Wake up mr. west(echoes)

(Kanye west)

Uh, yeah, uh, yeah, uh, yeah, uh, yeah

Piano drops

And I heard 'em say, nothins ever promised tomorrow today
From the chi, like tim its the hard-a-way
So this is in the name of love, like robert say
Before you ask me to go get a job today, can I at least get a raise on a minimum wage?
And I know the goverment administered aids
So I guess we just pray like the minister say
Allah akbar and throw em some hot cars
Things we see on the screen is not ours
But these niggas from the hood so these dreams not far
Where im from, the dope boys is the rock stars
But they can't cop cars without seein' cop cars
I guess they want us all behind bars
I know it

-Chorus- (adam levine)
Uh,and I heard 'em say, nothins ever promised tomorrow today
(Ooooooooo)
And I heard 'em say, nothins ever promised tomorrow today
(Nothing's ever promised tomorrow today.)
But we'll find a way
(And nothing lasts forever but be honest babe, it hurts but it may be the only way)

(Kanye)
They say people in your life are seasons
And anything that happen is for a reason
And niggas gun clappin and keep to squeezin'
And gran keep prayin' and keep believin'
In jesus and one day that ya see him
Till then walk in his footsteps and try to be him
The devil is alive I feel him breathin'
Claimin' money is the key so keep on dreamin'
And put them lottery tickets just to tease us
My aunt pam can't put them cigarettes down
So now my lil' cousin smokin them cigarettes now
His job trying to claim that he too niggerish now
Is it cuz his skin blacker than licorice now?
I can't figure it out..
I'm stickin it out...

-Chorus- (adam levine)
Uh uh , and I heard 'em say, nothins ever promised tomorrow today
(Ooooooooo)
And I heard 'em say, nothins ever promised tomorrow today
(Nothing's ever promised tomorrow today.)
But we'll find a way
(And nothing lasts forever but be honest babe
It hurts but it may be the only way)

(With every worthless word we get more far away, and nothing's ever promised tomorrow today, and nothing lasts forever but be honest babe
It hurts but it may be the only way)
(Oooh, ooooh oooh)
(Oooooooh, oh, oh, oooh, oh oh oh)

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[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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