[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]
Before I start, like to make sure I'm smart
Gather my composure, rather my swagger and my culture
Pivot my fitted, then begin to rivet, with a change of lyric
In other words, I reposition how I sit it
Then make you feel it like I mispronounced "filet,"
On second thought, I can't make you fill it
Like you digging ya own grave, 'less you can "k** Bill" it
A night of the living pa**ed away
Can you dig it? Why Em-cee? 'Ey
I do it for my village
The pennin' is John Lennon, the beat is the Beatles
Go together like Lenin and The People
In some fresh linens and some John Lennon's fresh outta Segal's
The pen and the needles
[Verse 2: Lupe Fiasco]
I'm back at 'cha, and I pack like cap backwards
Like a hat's backwards, you know, when the back's backwards
Yeah, like a bat catcher's
The law got a long arm like a back scratcher
But before I leave mine at home
Like a bad catcher, I think about my zone
Where the pimps make scratch off the track like a DJ
Easy! That's my zone rappers
It's my deck
And if I catch you set trippin' with my ca**ette sittin' then it's on rappers
It's not a threat
Cause it'll span ya where I roam rappers, where I hone my sk**s
They wanna send me back home, the Devil -- is on my heels
They writing this thing like in the sequences
The police, I repeat
We go together like the Beauty and the Beast
Writin' is in my veins
The ink is the diesel, the pen and the needles
[Verse 3: Lupe Fiasco]
The word is mightier than the sword
And my serve is tidier than yours
Like year in St. Louis, ya whole flow
I fear I sank through it
It all became clear
Like a paramedic with an electric chest kit, yeah!
The gravity of the vocabulary is a caliber equal to Excalibur
Swung with the grace of Aga**i in his amateurs, there
There was a deeper depth, don't know how I got here
I also had a hole in my flow
It appears I sank to it
My swing, it couldn't be seen
I apply some paint to it, the invisible man
Wrapped in bandages, in critical, CLEAR!
The scriptin' is Scorsese, the score is Count Basie
We go together like the original and the sequel
This is the end of the trilogy, ya feelin' me?
The pen and the needles