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They used to tell me, tell meI hope you'll learn to make it on your ownIf you love yourself, just know you'll never be aloneI hope that you'll get everything you want and that you chooseI hope that's the realest day that you've ever knowI hope that you'll get the pretty girl, the prettiest of everythingMillion dollars cribs, have a million dollars dreamand when you get it all,Just remember one thing,Remember one thingThat one man can change the World!That one man can change the World!Hol' up, all I wanted was a hundred million dollars and a bad chickImagine this so much some nights it felt like that I had itBack on the mattress, starin' at the ceilin' tryina to connect the dotsBut its hard makin' those attachmentsI'm talkin' dreamin' so hard, some nights it felt like draft dayYou know, my step brother used to flip them bags outside the cribLike it was trash day, no Kim K, but he bagged yay (Ye)But when you're getting fast money slow down, don't crashWith all the drive in the world, swear you still need gasLook, think about it, close your eyes, dream about itTell your team about it, go make million dollars schemes about itSuccess is on the way, I feel it in the distanceUsed to look up at the stars and be like ain't too much that's differentSongtexteI'd be shinin', they be shinin', get your one shot don't you miss itWhat you know bout' wakin' up everyday like you on a mission?I hope you'll learn to make it on your ownIf you love yourself, just know you'll never be aloneI hope that you'll get everything you want and that you choseI hope that's the realest day that you've ever knowI hope that you'll get the pretty girl, the prettiest of everythingMillion dollars cribs, have a million dollars dreamand when you get it all,Just remember one thing,Remember one thingThat one man can change the World!That one man can change the World!My grandma told me if you write your name in stone,You'll never get the white outI grinded out that black hole then performed up at the white houseStandin' next to Jim Carrey, we traded stories then laughedI said you not the only one I know got rich wearin' masksWhere I'm from I swear they broke, they need way more than the castWe need more than what you have,and then we need more than thatBut how am I supposed to say I'm tiredIf that girl from West Virginia came up in conditionsThat I couldn't surviveWent to war, came back aliveOn top of that became a female black captain!When being black you had to extra extra try!Way before, James Brown made us proudShe bought a crib on the same street as Marvin Gaye,Right there on Outer Drive, and she taught me how to driveand she raised the kids, then the kids' kids, and she did it rightTaught me how to love,Taught me not to cryWhen I die,I hope you teach me how to flyAll my life you've been that angel in the sky sayingI hope you'll learn to make it on your ownIf you love yourself, just know you'll never be aloneI hope that you'll get everything you want and that you choseI hope that's the realest day that you've ever knowI hope that you'll get the pretty girl, the prettiest of everythingMillion dollars cribs, have a million dollars dreamand when you get it all,Just remember one thing,Remember one thingThat one man can change the World!That one man can change the World!Thank you for callin' mebeen thinkin' about meIt's all good I love yougrandma!Bye! Aus Songtexte Mania