Kendrick Lamar – Own This City lyrics

[Chorus]
You can own this city
You have everything you need
All it takes is all you got
Life don't ask you if you're ready or not
You can own this city
Deep inside you hold the key
While the world is fast asleep
You can take it all if you just dare to dream

[Verse 1]
Talk about goals
Talk about a pen and a pad and the pad of your house
With a prominent flow
Hennessy on the floor looking at a video on the couch
And the couch is cold
And the pouch in your mama pocket got a permanent hole
And your brother pout 'cause he want food on the stove
And a pedestal with a silver spoon, and a big pool
With a big room and a closet, calls it
"Hurt" when you laughing at his clothes
Looking at him like he ain't shit
Forever living in that commode
Time flies and I watch it tick
Look in the mirror and I gotta take risk
Like blood on the sheet of a suicide note
Tripod then I aim it at your soul
For bright lights
Bite like an alligator when I write
Hungry, come see determination upon me
Come see the visionary in my sight
My light premeditated by ambition
Piston from my Nikes take off
No 'ssistance, I'm persistent
[Adolph?] when I knock at you with this thought

[Chorus]
You can own this city
You have everything you need
All it takes is all you got
Life don't ask you if you're ready or not
You can own this city
Deep inside you hold the key
While the world is fast asleep
You can take it all if you just dare to dream

[Verse 2]
Let's talk about pressure
Let's talk about depression
Let's talk about desperate
Times, everyday I'm guessin'
My mind, I'm never [?]
I climb a ladder every second
I find another mountain top
Another video I watch when a video go off
I jot like Edgar Allen, matter fact a thousand
Soldiers never can war off my talons
I wanna reassure my talents
Wipe my face but never throw my towel in
I'm off to prowl in
The edge of a quantum jump in my head
I'm a monster from anywhere but Earth
And I'm 1 of 1 ever since my birth, I came for some bright lights
Bite like a bear trap when I write
Hungry, gotta chip on my shoulder
I took it off and ate it
I made it a full meal
And I'm still craving, my front teeth
I sink in the rap game
My name will attract fame
My veins got the blood of a king in it
When it boils down, and Snoop's on stage and he say
"Kendrick"

[Chorus]
You can own this city
You have everything you need
All it takes is all you got
Life don't ask you if you're ready or not
You can own this city
Deep inside you hold the key
While the world is fast asleep
You can take it all if you just dare to dream

[Bridge]
So what you gonna lose
What you gonna do
You can run, you can hide
But when you are chosen
The walls they closing
Your forefathers look you in your eyes
So what you gonna lose
What you gonna do
You can run, you can hide
But when you are chosen
The walls they closing
Your forefathers look you in your eyes

[Chorus]
You can own this city
You have everything you need
All it takes is all you got
Life don't ask you if you're ready or not
You can own this city
Deep inside you hold the key
While the world is fast asleep
You can take it all if you just dare to dream