XV - Learn To Fly lyrics

[Produced by The Awesome Sound] [Hook: Betty Trouble] I learn to fly, so you You run to find the gun To shoot me down Before I get too high I learn to fly, so you You run to find a gun To shoot me down Before I get too high [Verse 1: XV] See, I grew up on that Northside Where the ballers don't play courtside They wear colors And ride for they brothers Throw up they C's up and B's up and courts high And I touched my first 45 When Jordan was wearing that 45 And I couldn't ball, I was like 4'5" So I stayed inside writing up more rhymes Well of course I Had problems with thugs Who told me that I couldn't get any love In the city I'm from Don't know why I stay here, never said bye Dad said no, Mom said try Shorty said who? Now says hi Teacher sighs Said what you gonna do When you leave school And I said I... [Hook] [Verse 2: XV] More fire, more fire As I get higher and higher My bars get tighter than Rikers When I get behind mics like I'm Myers And they on my bandwagon, call it Radio Flyer But if you rolling Come on then I hope you saving your tires Don't buy my CD Just to see me Before the day I expire I am here Permanente I swear my name could be Kaiser No fat lady's gonna sing Skinny chicks in my choir And life's a b**h But I swear that b**h couldn't be finer I asked my momma, where we go from here? No clue till we die So living like this our last is the move for the night Called me a nerd in high school, now my school is so high I'm flying first cla**, like my homeroom's in the sky And I... [Hook] [Verse 3] Knew that I could, when they told me I can't Said I was good, I told them I'm great Funny my hood, they told me I changed And I said yea, only the game Now I am here Throwing up squares Ls and 7s all up in the air They asking me, Vizzy you really prepared? I say hell yea, where's my chair? Keep your throne, leave my wings I am grown, off something That got me flyer and feeling super, I am Mario 3 This is when no one knew who I would be Back then, when no one would ever believe Now they see, cause now I'm fly With my dreams, in front of they eyes Look... [Hook]