"Still I Rise" lyrics
You see this pain in my eyes
Why you wanna despise, nigga?
Yeah, this ain't a game—I'm alive
So I'm tryna enterprise, nigga
Why you tryna jeopardize
How a player provide, huh?
Still I rise
Like the 5% limo tint, nigga
Still I rise
I live a different kind of life
I'm in the city for the morning
And camping in the night
Even when it's left
I still be tryna get it right
Even though nobody's perfect
I be perfectly aligned
And you know my heart pure
So be sure if I decline
I don't mean no hard feelings
I just follow the design
Given to me by the Most High
Understand both sides
There ain't no light without dark—and that's real
There ain't no fire without a spark—and that's real
In order to preserve life
Sometimes you gotta kill
In order to preserve life
Sometimes you gotta heal
Is that how you feel?
That's how you personally feel?
Niggas got it fucked up
They messing up the game
Think they on top
They just a person in the chain
Truth to a lie
Is like detergent to a stain
Until it goes away
And only certainty remains
You see this pain in my eyes
Why you wanna despise, nigga?
Yeah, this ain't a game—I'm alive
So I'm tryna enterprise, nigga
Why you tryna jeopardize
How a player provide, huh?
Still I rise
Like the 5% limo tint, nigga
Ain’t nobody coming to save you—keep it pushing
What kind of life is waiting on a man to say you can?
Gotta keep shaking, baking, get it cooking
Too hot in the kitchen—gotta put on some mittens
And there's way too many chefs at the pot for me to listen
So I'm handling business, whipping up something vicious
I believe in God, can't feed the superstition
It starts with cold feet
And then your fire gets extinguished
So I give them Rei of Light
Hope that they aight
Still I rise
No time to be afraid of heights
Still I lied—but it's fine
I had to pay the price
That's life—last Guinness, and then we slide
Liquor got me fucked up
All up in my brain
Ever since the Passa
I ain't never been the same
Ever since I sold my line
I never been the same
But that's just the game
Can't grow unless you change
You see this pain in my eyes
Why you wanna despise, nigga?
Yeah, this ain't a game—I'm alive
So I'm tryna enterprise, nigga
Why you tryna jeopardize
How a player provide, huh?
Still I rise
Like the 5% limo tint, nigga
Why you tryna jeopardize
How a player provide, huh?
Still I rise
Like the 5% limo tint, nigga
Why you wanna despise, nigga?
Yeah, this ain't a game—I'm alive
So I'm tryna enterprise, nigga
Why you tryna jeopardize
How a player provide, huh?
Still I rise
Like the 5% limo tint, nigga
Still I rise
I live a different kind of life
I'm in the city for the morning
And camping in the night
Even when it's left
I still be tryna get it right
Even though nobody's perfect
I be perfectly aligned
And you know my heart pure
So be sure if I decline
I don't mean no hard feelings
I just follow the design
Given to me by the Most High
Understand both sides
There ain't no light without dark—and that's real
There ain't no fire without a spark—and that's real
In order to preserve life
Sometimes you gotta kill
In order to preserve life
Sometimes you gotta heal
Is that how you feel?
That's how you personally feel?
Niggas got it fucked up
They messing up the game
Think they on top
They just a person in the chain
Truth to a lie
Is like detergent to a stain
Until it goes away
And only certainty remains
You see this pain in my eyes
Why you wanna despise, nigga?
Yeah, this ain't a game—I'm alive
So I'm tryna enterprise, nigga
Why you tryna jeopardize
How a player provide, huh?
Still I rise
Like the 5% limo tint, nigga
Ain’t nobody coming to save you—keep it pushing
What kind of life is waiting on a man to say you can?
Gotta keep shaking, baking, get it cooking
Too hot in the kitchen—gotta put on some mittens
And there's way too many chefs at the pot for me to listen
So I'm handling business, whipping up something vicious
I believe in God, can't feed the superstition
It starts with cold feet
And then your fire gets extinguished
So I give them Rei of Light
Hope that they aight
Still I rise
No time to be afraid of heights
Still I lied—but it's fine
I had to pay the price
That's life—last Guinness, and then we slide
Liquor got me fucked up
All up in my brain
Ever since the Passa
I ain't never been the same
Ever since I sold my line
I never been the same
But that's just the game
Can't grow unless you change
You see this pain in my eyes
Why you wanna despise, nigga?
Yeah, this ain't a game—I'm alive
So I'm tryna enterprise, nigga
Why you tryna jeopardize
How a player provide, huh?
Still I rise
Like the 5% limo tint, nigga
Why you tryna jeopardize
How a player provide, huh?
Still I rise
Like the 5% limo tint, nigga
