[00:00.001]Producer：Kanye West
[00:00.099]Writers：Sandra Greene/Kanye West/GLC/Consequence/Gwen Gordy Fuqua/Marvin Gaye
[00:00.119]Sample：Distant Lover(1973)—Marvin Gaye
[00:00.262]I've been working this grave-shift
[00:03.018]And I ain't made sh!t (Yeah, yeah)
[00:05.107]I wish I could (Me too)
[00:07.067]Buy me a spaceship and fly (Swear I do)
[00:11.612]Past the sky, oh
[00:13.649]GLC feel you, baby—I feel you, man
[00:16.549]I've been working this grave-shift
[00:19.187]And I ain't made sh!t
[00:21.277]I wish I could
[00:23.262]Buy me a spaceship and fly
[00:28.017]Past the sky (Man, man, man...)
[00:31.256]Oh, oh, oh
[00:33.137]If my manager insults me again
[00:35.148]I will be assaulting him
[00:37.107]After I fxck the manager up
[00:39.145]Then, I'm gonna shorten the register up
[00:41.156]Let's go back, back to the Gap
[00:43.220]Look at my check—wasn't no scratch
[00:45.231]So if I stole, wasn't my fault
[00:47.191]Yeah, I stole—never got caught
[00:49.254]They take me to the back and pat me
[00:51.292]Asking me about some khakis
[00:53.460]But let some Black people walk in
[00:55.262]I bet you they show off their token blackie
[00:57.509]Oh, now they love Kanye
[00:59.285]"Let's put him all in the front of the store" “
[01:01.401]So I'm on break
[01:02.420]Next to the "No Smoking" sign with a blunt in the mall
[01:05.424]Taking my hits, writing my hits
[01:07.383]Writing my rhymes, playing my mind
[01:09.369]This fxcking job can't help him
[01:11.458]So I quit; y'all welcome
[01:13.574]Y'all don't know my struggle
[01:15.899]Y'all can't match my hustle
[01:17.623]You can't catch my hustle
[01:19.896]You can't fathom my love, dude
[01:21.933]Lock yourself in a room
[01:23.266]Doing five beats a day for three summers
[01:25.564]That's A Different World like Cree Summer's
[01:27.550]I deserve to do these numbers
[01:29.561]"The kid that made that deserves that Maybach!"
[01:33.114]So many records in my basement
[01:34.969]I'm just waitin' on my spaceship, blaow!
[01:37.032]I've been working this grave-shift
[01:40.010]And I ain't made sh!t
[01:41.969]I wish I could buy me a spaceship and fly
[01:48.735]Past the sky, oh
[01:53.228]I've been working this grave-shift
[01:56.102]And I ain't made sh!t
[01:58.139]I wish I could buy me a spaceship and fly
[02:04.931]Past the sky
[02:05.140]Tryna tell you, man, way past the sky
[02:08.667]Oh, oh (Let's go, ugh)
[02:09.920]And I didn't even try to work a job
[02:12.010]Represent the mob at the same time (Woo)
[02:14.022]Thirsty on the grind, Chi state of mind
[02:16.033]Lost my mama, lost my mind (Aww)
[02:18.044]Life, my love, that's not mine
[02:20.108]"Why you ain't signed?"
[02:21.075]Wasn't my time
[02:22.120]Leave me alone, work for y'all
[02:24.262]Half of it's yours, half of it's mine
[02:26.142]Only wanna ball, never wanna fall (Ugh)
[02:28.206]Gotta get mine, gotta take mine (Ugh)
[02:30.191]Got a Tec-9, reach my prime (Ugh)
[02:32.203]Gotta make these haters respect mine (Yeah)
[02:34.502]In the mall 'til 12 when my schedule had said 9
[02:38.760]Putting them pants on shelves
[02:40.327]Waiting patiently; I ask myself
[02:42.312]Where I wanna go, where I wanna be
[02:44.298]Life is much more than running in the streets
[02:46.283]Holler at 'Ye, hit me with the beat
[02:48.320]Put me on my feet, sounds so sweet
[02:50.854]Yes, I'm the same ol' G
[02:52.474]Same goatee, stayin' low-key, nope
[02:55.243]Holler at God: "Man, why'd you have to take my folks?"
[02:58.508]Hope to see Freddie G., Yusef G, love my G
[03:02.557]Rolly G, police watch me
[03:04.542]Smoke my weed and count my Gs
[03:06.528]Got a lot of people counting on me (That's right)
[03:08.618]And I'm just tryin' to find my peace (That's right)
[03:10.629]Should've finished school like my niece
[03:12.588]Then I finally wouldn't use my piece, blaow!
[03:14.077]I've been working this grave-shift
[03:15.671]Aww, man, this pressure
[03:17.003]And I ain't made sh!t
[03:19.014]I wish I could
[03:21.026]Buy me a spaceship and fly
[03:25.780]Past the sky, oh
[03:30.116]I've been working this grave-shift
[03:33.042]And I ain't made sh!t
[03:35.132]I wish I could
[03:37.222]Buy me a spaceship and fly
[03:41.924]Past the sky
[03:45.502]Oh, oh, oh
[03:47.488]I 'member having to take the dollar cab
[03:49.029]Coming home real late at night
[03:50.936]Standing on my feet all damn day
[03:53.365]Tryna make this thing right
[03:55.142]And havin' one of my coworkers say
[03:57.780]"Yo, you look just like
[03:59.086]This kid I seen in an old Busta Rhymes video the other night"
[04:03.187]Well, easy come, easy go, how that saying goes
[04:07.236]No more broad service, cars, and them TV shows
[04:11.181]That all had got snatched from me
[04:13.218]A&Rs and they faculties
[04:15.204]All turn their back on me and didn't wanna hear a rap from me
[04:19.305]So naturally
[04:20.219]Actually
[04:21.238]Had to face things factually
[04:23.328]Had to be a catastrophe, empty fridge is staring back at me
[04:27.351]'Cause nothing's there, nothing's fair
[04:29.388]I don't wanna ever go back there
[04:31.400]So I won't be taking no days off 'til my spaceship takes off, bow!
[04:34.848]I've been working this grave-shift
[04:37.800]And I ain't made sh!t
[04:39.811]I wish I could
[04:41.875]Buy me a spaceship and fly
[04:46.577]Past the sky, oh
[04:50.965]I've been working this grave-shift
[04:53.891]And I ain't made sh!t
[04:55.955]I wish I could
[04:57.966]Buy me a spaceship and fly
[05:02.747]Past the sky
[05:05.516]Oh, oh, oh
[05:07.893]I wanna fly
[05:09.538]I wanna fly
[05:11.498]I said I want my chariot to pick me up
[05:13.718]And take a brother for a ride
[05:16.905](Heaven knows, heaven knows)