Crooked Smile - J. Cole

Look
They tell me I should fix my grill cause I got money now
I ain’t gon’ sit around and front like I ain’t thought about it
A perfect smile is more appealing but it’s funny how
My shit is crooked look at how far I done got without it
I keep my twisted grill, just to show them kids it’s real
We ain’t picture perfect but we worth the picture still
I got smart, I got rich, and I got bitches still
And they all look my eyebrows: thick as hell
Love yourself, girl, or nobody will
Oh, you a woman? I don’t know how you deal
With all the pressure to look impressive and go out in heels
I feel for you
Killing yourself to find a man that’ll kill for you
You wake up, put makeup on
Stare in the mirror but its clear that you can’t face what’s wrong
No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on
Your roommate yelling, “Why you gotta take so long?”
What it’s like to have a crooked smile
This crooked smile

To all the women with the flaws, know it’s hard my darling
You wonder why you’re lonely and your man’s not calling
You keep falling victim cause you’re insecure
And when I tell you that you’re beautiful you can’t be sure
Cause you see that no one wants you back and it got you asking
So all you see is what you lacking, not what you packing
Take it from a man that loves what you got
And baby you’re a star, don’t let ‘em tell you you’re not
Now is it real? Eyebrows, fingernails, hair
Is it real? if it’s not, girl you don’t care
Cause what’s real is something that the eyes can’t see
That the hands can’t touch, that them broads can’t be, and that’s you
Never let ‘em see your friend
And if you need a friend to pick you up, I’ll be around
And we can ride with the windows down, the music loud
I can tell you ain’t laughed in a while
But I wanna see that crooked smile

We only fronting like the people on the screen
You know them movie stars, picture perfect beauty queens
But we got dreams and we got the right to chase ‘em
Look at the nation, that’s a crooked smile braces couldn’t even straighten
Seem like half the race is either on probation, or in jail
Wonder why we inhale, cause we in hell already
I asked if my skin pale, would I then sell like Eminem or Adele?
Yo one more time for the ‘Ville
And fuck all of that beef shit, ni**a let’s make a mil
Hey officer man, we don’t want nobody getting killed
Just open up that cell, let my brother out of jail
I got money for the bail now, well now.
If you asking will I tell now? Hell naw
I ain’t snitching cause
Man, they get them ni**as stitches now
If you was around, then you wouldn’t need a witness now
How you like this crooked smile?

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Visual and Musical Perfection.

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Thoughts and Regrets

I'm afraid I chose the wrong circle. The wrong group of friends to take me through this part of my life.
They're not driven, they're not ambitious. They're not academically equal. Not in the same percentile.
That's not to say they're not smart guys, just smart with different things (couldn't find a better way to put that).
Growing up I've always been about my books and that's evident in my grades and achievement thus far. Coming to university I thought I could branch out and relax a little. I went into the path of girls and alcohol. Disappointed in my grades but I still do well enough to be called 'smart'. 3 years down the line, a few months from graduation and I've entered my comfort zone again I feel a shift in my friendships. I don't find my guys interesting anymore.
I'm finding comfort and peace in my books. My taste in music is changing and I'm comfortable with the girl I'm with. I don't see myself doing stupid things anymore.
I don't know if they see the same changes but I'm curious to see if these friendships last.
After graduation, I don't think I'll be making much of an effort to see them. I'm actually looking forward to going back to the friends I grew up with. The ones that know me.

Perspective.

Higher - D'Angelo, Brown Sugar

Feels like heaven when I think about you
sparking that love within my soul
and when I touch U, I can't describe it
sending chills, down my bones

With God as my witness and watching over
We'll write our love in the stone
Please give us strength Lord to fight our battles
and we can walk on the streets of gold

Cause you take me higher, than I've ever, ever known
give me good feeling, like a king and queen on a throne
cause you take me higher, further than the sky above
send me in ecstasy baby, with you love

Tell me what you're thinking of, must thinking of love
put your hands into mine and then we'll take off to the sky above
soft like an angel, like the feathers laying on a dove
touch me with your soul love, till I lose control

Just like an angel watching over me
(U protect me from my fears)
I once was blind, but now I see
(Ever since the day U appeared)
I just wanna say
I want U in my life
till the day I die baby

Look in my eyes,
tell me right now,
that U and your love
will 4-ever take me higher

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Lovelier Than You

I'm dangerously, dangerously, dangerously in love
I love her more than I love myself and still that ain't enough
If this's a dream I don't wanna wake up
We go together like the tub and the shower head above
Not even thousands and thousands of miles
Could amount to my love I'd have countless sky miles
I'd climb up a mountain, climb right back down
I'd run across the world and jog back around
Noun and a verb is just a sound
And a word is not profound enough to show my urge for her smile
I'd shout on a curb with a loudspeaker
'Till the entire town heard how I felt
And I'm out

- Bobby Ray

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