Barbed Wire
Kendrick Lamar

One time

Reporting live

Compton, California


Verse 1:

Have you ever felt like, like you never get life?

Like you never get right? Sort of like a black sheep

Back down, backing ultra dreams like some bad sleep

Chasing for the wind but you never win the track meet

Oh what a cold world for a broke nigga--it's bitter

And life's a bitch, don't hit women so I bit her

I struck enough pain let her know I wasn't playin'

I was so sincere like Nas first name

And back, they tell me

It's very difficult to see 25 and if I survive I'd probably wouldn't sell it

My opportunities are low because my brown complexion floats in the ghetto rather in some heels like Giuseppe's

They want me unemployed, until I hit the streets for fillin' voids of broke D-Boys sellin' weed

Fuckin' up my prestige, till I live with the blues

BB King or the neighbors of Snoop


Chorus:

That's why I'm in the club like fuck it, though

They say it's only one life, life, life

And if you say I can't live comfortable

Ima tell you that's a lie, lie, lie

So while I hold this bottle of Ciroc with a hand full of ass

Celebrate the very day that I get past

Moving barbed wire

We are, we are (fight!)

We are, we are (truth!)

through barbed, through barbed, (wire!)

we will, we will break (through!)

So while I hold this bottle of Ciroc with a hand full of ass

Celebrate the very day that I get past

Moving barbed wire


Verse 2:

Have you ever felt like, like you never get life

Like you never did right? Sort of like a black sheep

Tryna get away from the World stereotype

Barbed wire got a barricade on your destiny

She desperately in need of some inspiration, see what the people sayin'

She gon have a baby then flee from her education

At the age of 16, credit card scam schemes

See a scar on her eye, boyfriend brutality

She will never get by, no how no way

Where every recipientt, property of the state

Housing, Section 8, corner store, prostitute

The owner bout to prosecute, the niggas tell her that she's cute

Hood rat trash, 6 baby-da

This and this baby-ca

it's due to the family,

Chillin' in pajamis

Waitin' on the first

Fast forward spillin' drinks on her fur


Chorus:

That's why she in the club like fuck it, though

They say it's only one life, life, life

And if you say she can't live comfortable

She gon tell you that's a lie, lie, lie

So while she up in VIP pourin' Merlot in the glass

Celebrate the very day that she get past

Moving barbed wire

We are, we are (fight!)

We are, we are (truth!)

Through the, through barbed (wire!)

We will, we'll break (through!)

So while she in the VIP pourin' Merlot in the glass

Celebrate the very day that she get past

Moving barbed wire


Verse 3:

Have you ever felt like, you finally got life

You finally got right? No longer a black sheep

Livin' off ya dreams like Christina uh-Milian in the front seat

Of a convertible eloping' to get married

What a feeling of overcoming the odds

It's like I just hit the lottery, my God

There must be a God

Cuz golly, you done made it through the fight while squabbling, I lead

Now ya lifestyles lookin' up and you escaped the crooked cops and you ain't have to kill a nigga just to make a couple bucks

And she ain't have to go and fuck on anybody for a dollar, making good decisions

Got an independent business mind

And both of ya'll are steady grindin, doin' it the legal way just tryna make a decent pay on every second of the day

But they won't give you the credit, disses out they mouth

You must enter the Illuminati just to ball out


Chorus:

In the club like fuck it, though

They say it's only one life, life, life

And if you say they can't live comfortable

They gon tell you that's a lie, lie, lie

So even though you overcame doubt and ya livin' ain't bad

Know there's a barbed wire that's always in your past

Moving barbed wire

and everybody say

cause i won't get caught again

and i'm here to stop the trends, you can catch me if you try

disappear into the night and I'm gone


Girl: So you made it past all the barbed wires?

Kendrick: There's just one left. *Gun shot*


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Jay-Z, Emel...   Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe   Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe (International Remix)   Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe (Remix)   Bitch, Don\u2019t Kill My Vibe   Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe Remix   Bitch, Don’t Kill My Vibe   Black Boy Fly   Black Friday   Black Friday (A Tale Of 2 Citiez Remix)   Black fridayf   Blessed   Blessed ft. Schoolboy Q   Blow My High (Members Only)   Blue Faces   Bridget Kelly – Street Dreamin   Buried Alive   Cartoon & Cereal   Cartoon & Cereal   Cartoon and Cereal   Cartoons & Cereal   Celebration   Chapter 6   Chapter Six   Chapter Ten   Cloud 10   Collard Greens   Collard Greens (Feat. Schoolboy Q)   Collard Greens ft. Schoolboy Q   Collect Calls   Complexion   Complexion (A Zulu Love)   Compton   Compton Feat. Dr. Dre   Compton ft. Dr. Dre (Prod. by Just Blaze)   Compton's Finest   Comptons Finest (Feat. H.O.P.E.)   Control   Control   County Building Blues   Cut You Off   Cut You Off (To Grow Closer)   Determined   Do Yo Gudda (Remix)   Don't Kill My Vibe   Don't Kill My Vibe (Remix)   Don't Understand   Don't Understand   Double XL   Dumb It Down   Dying Of Thirst   F*ck Your Ethnicity   Faith   Far from Here   Fight The Feeling   For Free?   For Free? (Interlude)   For Sale?   For Sale? (Interlude)   For The Girlfriends   For The Homies   Forbidden Fruit (Feat. J Cole)   Fragile   Fuck Your Ethnicity   Funkmasterflex (Freestyle)   Get Bizy   Get Bizy ft. Kurupt & Bad Lucc (Prod. by Terrace M...   Good Kid   Good Morning America   GQ Man of The Year 2013 Freestyle   Growing Apart (From Everything)   Growing Apart (To Get Closer)   H.O.C   H.O.C.   Heart Pt. 3   Heaven & Hell   Heaven & Hell   Heaven and Hell   Heaven Help Dem   Higher Ground (BBC Radio Freestyle)   Hii Power   Hiii Power   HiiiiPoWeR   HiiiPower   Hol' Up   Hol' Up   Holy Ghost (Remix)   Homage To DPG ft. LaToiya Williams (Prod. by Focus...   Hood Gone Love It   Hood Politics   How Many Drinks   How Many Drinks (Remix) (Feat. Miguel)   How Much A Dollar Cost   Hub City's Wild Side   I   I (from California Dreams, 2015)   I Am (Interlude)   I Do This   I Do This (Remix)   I Do This (Remix)   I Hate You   I Want It All   I Want It All (Feat. B. Martin, Juicy J)   I'm Da Man   I'm On 2.0   I'm Da Man   I'm On 2.0   Ignorance Is Bliss   Im Da Man   Institutionalized   Interlude   Is It Love   Jason Keaton & Uncle Bobby   Keisha's Song   Keisha's Song (Her Pain)   Keisha's Song Her Pain   Keisha's Song   Kendrick Lamar   Kendrick Lamar BET Cypher Cypher at the BET Hip Ho...   Kendrick Lamar Interlude Track No.9 on Ab-Soul's '...   Kendrick Lamar Partynauseous is a duet with Lady G...   Kendrick Lamar Sing About Me Produced by Pac Div. ...   Kendrick Lamar: Rapper of the Year - GQ   King Kunta   Kush & Corinthians   Kush & Corinthians   Kush and Corinthians (His Pain)   Lamar You Ain't Gotta Lie   Lamar You Ain't Gotta Lie   Last Real Nigga Alive   Let Me Be Me   Lets Us Move On (Feat. Dido)   Little Johnny   LMAO   Look Out For Detox   Looks Good With Trouble (Feat. Solange)   Lunch Table   Lunch Table (Freestyle)   Lunch Table (L.A. Leakers Freestyle)   M.A.A.d City   m.A.A.d city Feat. 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