Run This Town

[00:01.79] Feel it coming in the air

[00:03.04] Hear the screams from everywhere

[00:05.80] I'm addicted to the thrill

[00:08.30] It's a dangerous love affair

[00:11.03] Can't be scared when it goes down

[00:13.78] Got a problem, tell me now

[00:16.78] Only thing that's on my mind

[00:19.28] Is who's gon' run this town tonight

[00:24.01] Is who's gon' run this town tonight

[00:29.51] We gon' run this town!

[00:32.76] We are, yeah, I said it: we are

[00:34.51] This is Roc Nation, pledge your allegiance

[00:37.24] Get your fatigues on, all black everything

[00:39.99] Black cards, black cars, all black everything

[00:42.99] And our girls are blackbirds riding with their Dillingers

[00:45.99] I get more in depth if you boys really real enough

[00:48.72] This is la Familia, I'll explain later

[00:51.21] But for now, let me get back to this paper

[00:53.96] I'm a couple bands down and I'm trying to get back

[00:56.71] I gave Doug a grip and lost a flip for five stacks

[00:59.46] Yeah, I'm talking 5 comma, 6 zeros, dot zero, here Doug

[01:03.19] Back to running circles round niggas, now we squared up

[01:05.69] Hold up!

[01:06.69] Life's a game, but it's not fair

[01:09.18] I break the rules, so I don't care

[01:11.68] So I keep doing my own thing

[01:14.43] Walking tall against the rain

[01:17.17] Victory's within the mile

[01:19.92] Almost there, don't give up now

[01:23.42] Only thing that's on my mind

[01:25.67] Is who's gon' run this town tonight

[01:28.42] Hey, hey, hey, hey

[01:33.65] Who's gon' run this town tonight?

[01:39.40] We are, yeah, I said it: we are

[01:41.15] You can call me Caesar, in a dark Caesar

[01:43.62] Please follow the leader, so Eric B we are

[01:46.63] Microphone fiend, this the return of the God

[01:49.36] Peace, God, ah ah, it ain't no nobody fresher

[01:52.61] I'm in Maison, ah, Martin Margiela

[01:56.12] On the table, screaming

[01:57.10] "Fuck the other side! They're jealous!"

[01:58.35] We got a banquette full of broads

[01:59.85] They got a table full of fellas

[02:01.10] Yeah, and they ain't spending no cake

[02:04.10] They should throw their hand in

[02:06.09] 'Cause they ain't got no spades

[02:07.09] Yeah, my whole team got dough

[02:09.59] So my banquette is looking like millionaires' row

[02:12.09] Life's a game, but it's not fair

[02:15.33] I break the rules, so I don't care

[02:18.33] So I keep doing my own thing

[02:21.07] Walking tall against the rain

[02:23.82] Victory's within the mile

[02:26.57] Almost there, don't give up now

[02:29.31] Only thing that's on my mind

[02:31.81] Is who's gon' run this town tonight

[02:35.06] Hey, hey, hey, hey

[02:42.78] Who's gon' run this town tonight?

[02:45.53] It's crazy how you can go from being Joe Blow

[02:48.52] To everybody on your dick; no homo

[02:51.27] I bought my whole family whips; no Volvos

[02:54.02] Next time I'm in church: please, no photos

[02:56.52] Police escorts, everybody passports

[02:59.26] This the life that everybody ask for

[03:02.26] This the fast life, we are on a crash course

[03:05.26] What you think I rap for, to push a fucking Rav 4?

[03:08.26] But I know that if I stay stunting

[03:10.49] All these girls only gon' want one thing

[03:13.25] I can spend my whole life goodwill hunting

[03:15.99] Only good gon' come is this good when I'm cumming

[03:18.73] She got a ass that'll swallow up a G-string

[03:21.48] And up top, ungh, two bee stings

[03:24.22] And I'm beasting off the Riesling

[03:26.97] And my nigga just made it out the precinct

[03:29.72] We give a damn about the drama that your dude bring

[03:32.47] I'm just trying to change the color on your mood ring

[03:35.47] Reebok, baby, you need to try some new things

[03:38.20] Have you ever had shoes without shoe strings?

[03:40.95] "What's that, Ye?" "Baby, these heels."

[03:43.95] "Is that a May— what?!" "Baby, these wheels."

[03:46.45] You're tripping when you ain't sipping, have a refill

[03:49.45] You're feeling like you running, huh? Now you know how we feel

[03:51.92] Whass up!

[03:52.92] Hey, hey, hey, hey

[03:57.66] Yeah, yeah, whass up!

[04:03.41] Hey, hey, hey, hey

[04:09.15] We gon' run this town tonight