[Instrumental break] [Verse 1: J. Cole] Yeah, I had this little bad thing, something like them tens She gave a n***a mad brain, something like The Wiz But, you see, the sad thing f**in' with her is Is the chick ain't even have brains, dummy like a b**h So I tried to show her about the world And about just who we really are And where we've come and how we still have to go really far Like, "Baby, look at how we live broke on the boulevard" But all she ever want me to do is unhook her bra Then all I really want is for her to go down low Before you know it, she wet enough to get drowned slow And all that deep sh** I was previously down fo' Replaced by freak sh** I am currently down fo' You see I peeped it, p**y is power That proud feeling we get knowing that p**y is ours And how it feels to feel that feeling You feeling when you be drillin' that sh** Got her sayin' you be k**in' that sh** And all the pain the world cause, she be healin' that sh** And naw, that ain't your girl, dog But you be feelin' that chick And you just wanna tell her everything she might need But in the meantime it's lights please [Hook: J. Cole] Lights please, lights please, turn off the lights For now everything just seems so right And how you make the darkness seem so bright I'm feeling like things gon' be alright [Verse 2: J. Cole] So now we in the hotel, mirrors on the ceiling She say she wanna blow L's, I hear her and I'm willing But every time I smoke, well, a n***a mind gone So that every word I spoke, well, I'm tryin' to put her on But she couldn't hear me I told her all about how we been livin' a lie And that they love to see us all go to prison or die Like, "Baby, look at how they show us on the TV screen" But all she ever want me to do is unzip her jeans Then all I really want is for her to get on top Before you know it, she workin', jerkin' it nonstop And all that next sh** I was previously talkin' Is now that wet sh** that I'm currently lost in And while that sweat drip, I am reminded All the times my brother told me that p**y is blindin' I'm findin', the more I grow The more y'all seem to stay the same Don't even know the rules, but yet y'all tryin' to play the game And ain't it shameful how n***as blame hoes for givin' birth To a baby that took two to make? Coward n***a, you a fake How you gonna look in your son's face and turn your back Then go start another family? Dawg, what type of sh** is that? She said it's okay, rub my head and told me to relax Laid a n***a down proper, like she was recording tracks Said "I know you wanna change the world But for the night, please Just reach over and hit the lights please" [Hook: J. Cole] Lights please, lights please, turn off the lights For now everything just seems so right And how you make the darkness seem so bright I'm feeling like things gon' be alright [Outro: J. Cole] Alright, if y'all n***as heard the first one, The Come Up and sh**, then you would have heard part 1 of this joint right here. It's "Dead Presidents", you know cla**ic n***a, that's cla**ic Jay sh**. So I did it, threw it on the first mixtape, this is about a year ago. We let n***as hear like you know the mixtape whatever, and there was always this one n***a that stuck out to me like a year ago. This n***a's like "yo". like I thought I did my thing on this sh**, that was like two of my favorite verses that I did, but he was just like "Yo", like, "Yo you didn't come right man. If you gon' come on Dead Presidents son, you gotta come hard son, you gotta come harder than that son, you gotta come harder than that." I was like, man what you mean I came hard? But, that sh** always stuck in my mind, so doing this next, you know, doing this The Warm Up I was like, damn, I gotta get on it again, I gotta do it again. Just almost like, just to prove to that n***a and kinda prove to myself that you I can, I can maybe get a little...