Love Yourz - Live

I don't think y'all really understand

How much this shit means to me but y'all just

I'm back home and y'all just sat through

My whole fuckin' entire album and shit

That's fuckin' crazy, thank y'all for doing that shit, man

I've been plannin' this night for a long time

So this shit is crazy to see and like

Turning to reality and shit

I appreciate y'all for sittin' through this shit

I wanna tell y'all some shit about this album

So when you leave here tonight

I know people were, people been telling me

Niggas been playin' the album like crazy and I appreciate it

But when we leave here tonight

I want y'all to know what this album meant to me

So when you're driving home, and you're playing it this week, next week

Next year, whenever, you gon' always remember what this shit was about

What I had to go out into the world and learn, on my own

I've come in here to tell you all tonight

This is what this album is about

And I'm takin' this message across the fuckin' world, I don't care

Here we go

When we young and even when we old

The world is constantly, constantly pumping us with images

And messages about what life is about, right?

And what we need to make this happen

.In the United States we call it the American Dream, right

But what does it always include?

A lot of fucking money, a big-ass house, a brand new car

A wife that's not even genetically fucking possible to have and shit

And bitches, bad bitches too

They tell us we need all that to be happy, right

So what ends up happening?

The world is set up so that ninety-nine per cent of us can't live like that

But what do we do? We idolise the people that do live like that, right

We call them celebrities, we follow their lives

We go, "Aw man, looks so perfect, I wanna be living like them"

And I'm comin' here tonight to tell y'all I'm the same dude

That was on the other side of the fence, right here in this city

Right down the fucking street working at the fucking skating rink

Daydreaming

Well y'all niggas love the skating rink

Daydreaming about this shit like, man, I wanna live like that

I wanna have that, right

And then I went and got the shit

But I'm tellin' y'all this, I'm not saying that it's done

I'm sayin' that to say this

When I got over there, on that side of the fence

And I started to look closer, I'm tellin' y'all

That's not fuckin' J. Cole, I'm tellin' y'all, that's Jermaine

As I really started to take a closer look at all that shit we want

And all of that shit we need that makes us happy

I started to see with my own eyes like, wait a minute

That shit don't feel right, that shit feel weird

And I started to notice that all of that shit that they try to tell us

It's all bullshit and it's all wrong

And that's not what we need to make us happy

I had to go figure that shit out, right, on my own

And how do I know that, how do I know that?

This is how I know that

It's a man right now in the world, he got millions of dollars

He got a billion fuckin' dollars, right

He got everything that we think we need to be happy

He got it, he got the money, he got the cars

He got the big-ass crib, three our four of them bitches

He got the genetically impossible wife and he got bitches

But yeah, this dude is fucking miserable, right

He's empty inside, he's miserable

But you got a family that come from where we come from

From this city right here, worst conditions in the world

We come from, they couldn't afford a ticket to this show tonight

Because they fuckin' wanted one, right

But yeah somehow they got more happiness and joy in their lives right now

Than this man will ever fucking have in his life

How is that possible?

How is that even possible?

He got everything they told us we need to be happy

And he's miserable and they ain't got shit but they happy

What do they got, that he don't got? (Love)

What's that? (Love)

That's that fuckin' Kamala county public education system right there

Coming into play, goddamnit

I need everybody to put your cellphones in the sky one time tonight

Fayetteville we gonna light this shit up one time

Ay yo, niggas dreamin' 'bout this shit

Love yourz

Love yourz

No such thing

No such thing as a life that's better than yours

No such thing as a life that's better than yours

No such thing as a life that's better than yours

No such thing, no such thing

Heart beatin' fast, let a nigga know that he alive

Fake niggas mad, snakes

Snakes in the grass let a nigga know that he arrive

Don't be sleepin' on you lover 'cause it's beauty in the struggle nigga

They go for all y'all

It's beauty in the struggle, nigga, let me explain

It's beauty in the struggle, ugliness in the success

Hear my words or listen to my signal of distress

I grew up in the city and though sometimes we had less

Compared to some of my niggas down the block, man we was blessed

And life can't be no fairytale, no once upon a time

I'll be God damned if a nigga don't be tryin'

So tell me mama please why you be drinking all the time?

Does all the pain he brought you still linger in your mind? Shit

'Cause pain still lingers on mine

On the road to riches, listen this is what you'll find

The good news is nigga you came a long way

The bad news is nigga you went the wrong way

You think being broke is better

No such thing as a life that's better than yours

No such thing as a life that's better than yours

No such thing as a life that's better than yours

No such thing, no such thing

'Cause what's money without happiness?

Or hard times without the people you love

Though I'm not sure what's 'bout to happen next

I asked for strength from the Lord up above

'Cause I've been strong so far

But I can feel my grip loosening

Quick, do something before you lose it for good

Get it back and use it for good

And touch the people how you did like before

I'm tired of living with demons 'cause they always inviting more

Think being broke was better?

Now I don't mean that phrase with no disrespect

To all my niggas out there living in debt

Cashing minimal checks

Turn on the TV, see a nigga Rolex

And fantasize about a life with no stress

I mean this shit sincerely

And that's a nigga who was once in your shoes

Living with nothin' to lose

I hope one day you hear me

Always gon' be a bigger house somewhere, but nigga feel me

'Long as the people in that motherfucker love you dearly

Always gon' be a whip that's better than the the one you got

Always gon' be some clothes that's fresher than the ones you rock

Always gon' be a bitch that's badder out there on the tours

But you ain't never gon' be happy 'til you love yours

No such thing as a life that's better than yours

(Love yourz)

No such thing as a life that's better than yours

No such thing as a life that's better than yours (love yourz)

No such thing, no such thing

Heart beatin' fast, let a nigga know that he alive

Fake niggas mad, snakes

Snakes in the grass let a nigga know that he arrive

2-6 Fayetteville, Fayetteville now I'ma fuckin' love y'all

My name is J. Cole, Cole world

It's been some legendary shit man

Until the next time, goddamnit

Peace and love