Kanye West - Touch The Sky (Live From VH1 Storytellers) lyrics

Let's have some fun now Get up and touch it Get up and touch the sky, come on [7x] [Bridge] I gotta testify Come up in the spot lookin' extra fly Before the day I die, I'mma touch the sky Testify I'm up in the spot lookin' extra fly 'Fore the day I die, I'mma touch the sky [Verse 1 - Kanye West] Back when they thought pink Polos would hurt the Roc Before Cam got them hits to pop The doors was closed, I felt like Bad Boy's street team I couldn't work the locks Now let's go, take 'em back to the plan Me and my momma hopped in that U-Haul van Any pessimists I ain't talk to them Plus I ain't have no phone in my apart-a-ment Take 'em back to the club Least about an hour I stand on line I just wanted to dance, I went to Jacob an hour After I got my advance, I just wanted to shine Jay favorite line: "Dawg, in due time!" Now he look at me, like, "Damn, dawg! You where I am!" A hip-hop legend, I think I died In a accident, cause this must be heaven [Bridge] [Hook] Now let's take them hi-ah-igh-igh-igh-ighhhh(Top of the world baby) (Top top of the world) A-la-la-la-lah-la-lahhhhh(Top of the world baby) (On top of the world) [Verse 2 - Kanye West] Back when Gucci was the hits to rock Back when Slick Rick had the sh** to pop I'd do anything to say I got it Damn, them new loafers hurt my pocket Before anybody wanted K. West beats Me and my girl split the buffet at KFC Dog, I was having nervous breakdowns Like "Man - these n***as that much better than me?" Baby, I'm going on an airplane And I don't know if I'll be back again Sure enough, I sent the plane tickets But when she came to kick it, things became different Any girl I cheated on, sheets I skeeted on Couldn't keep it at home, thought I needed a Nia Long I'm trying to right my wrongs But it's funny them same wrongs helped me write this song [Bridge] Now say: I'm, I'm sky high Feels good to be home, feels good to be home Are y'all happy you came to VH1 Storytellers? Get up and touch the sky, come on I am so disappointed, that I cannot see me perform Except for on playback My greatest pain in live, is that I'll never see me perform So you are welcome to know a pleasure, that I will never have Come on [20x] This song is what inspired 808's and Heartbreak more than anything Because we used do this at the end of the tour every night And I would do it for – how many of you saw the Glow In The Dark tour in the room tonight? Thank you so much, for coming to the tour So y'all remember at the end of the show I would do this song And I would say some inspirational words and I would sing And I had the opportunity to just kind of do it and play it off But I discovered that I love to sing So much and to my thing and harmonize and just go up and down and just f** around I really feel like a vessel And I open my mouth and God will let beautiful words flow through That's why I realized that he chose me and he has a path for me Because half the things that come out, I can't be responsible for And I guess he just wants me to say more and more and more and never be insecure and always be sure, be sure And he will give me the strength I need to endure, for sure As I tour and bring the pure So much more, more, for sure For your entertainment, education and relation To take away your hesitation and segregation In a country full of immigrants, where no one really was born here, but separated here It's a beautiful thing that in a country that was so divided by the concept of black and white We now have a black and white president And this is what the future is to me The juxtaposition: two things that you think don't go together When a black, super-Hip-Hop-dressed dude gets on an elevator and there's an old lady with Chanel and she grabs her purse I'll give you a cliché example What would happen if they actually talk to each other? What would she learn? What would he learn? When the rich man hopping out the Lincoln Town Car, pa**es by the homeless person And they actually talk to each other What would he learn? What would he learn? If a black man, that came from Chicago and was taught to stand so far away from gay people, ‘cause you do not want to be accused of being gay Was to talk to a gay person What would he learn? What did I learn? I learned that people in Chicago was wrong And I've been an a**hole all along A lot of things that you learn are wrong So don't be an a**hole too long, too long, too long You can't be an a**hole too long You can't be an a**hole too long ‘Cause the more you know, the more you grow, the more responsibility you have show what you know And give everything that you got to give, baby that's the reason God let me live through the accident without practicing Okay, got to bring this up and bring it back again Okay, okay, okay, okay Alright [7x] No publishing Outkast, please Alright [5x] Shout out to three G's One of the few dressed quite as fresh as me