Truman

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Ay
 Man
 Man
 Ay
 I guess ya'll on board
 Young man couldn't leave that shore
 Had the life they made for him
 'Til he seeked out more
 Boat ride, couldn't see that storm
 Held it up though
 He know he close
 It's too late to jump ship
 Ay
 Aw damn, Aw damn
 You that motherfucker, shit
 I know
 This shit became a trip, Cabo
 Up in the womb, but you can feel it when I kick it, I know
 And U2 must be rockin' with Lil Dicky, Bono
 It's like I hit the lotto
 I had to hit the wall though
 I couldn't see it for a minute
 Shit was hittin' wall though
 They treat it like I'm goin' crazy
 I'm just playin', I don't
 It's just I know
 It's just I know
 I saw the world like hold up
 Damn near fakin' on the side
 Let me take you on a ride
 Let me tell you 'bout the one who couldn't take the 9 to 5
 Used to take the 925 down to Richmond
 Bumpin' Jigga up in the ride
 Used to think along and drive
 'Bout my drive
 Used to wonder why
 Used to wonder when the world'll see like I'm seein' mine
 Used to whine
 Used to wanna shine
 Used to wanna dine
 Used to talk to bitches in my mind when they walkin' by
 "Girl what's happenin', Girl what's happenin'"
 I ain't really 'bout to get involved that's what's happenin'
 Errything I knew was unevolved like a baptist
 Layin' on my mattress
 Prayin' I could have this, and
 Now when I get Tinder matches
 They think they been Catfished
 Now I be controlling how we livin' like a fascist
 Now I got this weight up off my shoulders like a strapless
 Remember this shit was hapless
 Remember the day it happened
 Aw you the shit Dave, you be killin' everything you did
 Got the whole world talkin' all about what you did
 Got yo old girl talkin' all 'bout what you is
 Got yo old world lookin like it's his you ain't here
 I been fuckin' for the fuck of it
 And one of them bitches I been fuckin' with
 Been wondering how I can work this much and stomach it
 She wonders what I want from it
 I said we don't gotta get into it
 She like Nah just do it
 She a psychology student
 She always followin' up
 Find the guy to be amusing as fuck
 Usually I'll answer her truthfully
 But truthfully, I'm unusually used to being unusually good at internalizing when music is not provided
 But I humor ho
 Ask her if she ever saw the Truman Show
 She like yeah
 I like well, when I saw that shit I was convinced I was livin' like Jim
 A similar situation where I was the basis of everyone's entertainment
 Like really up in the basement talkin' to y'all
 In the mirror because I thought that Lil David was some American hero
 I know it's selfish and all
 But I just felt it's my call
 I was a ten year old then
 By 2010 I was wrong
 I'm like "aw damn, aw damn, you the motherfucker though"
 I know
 This shit became a trip, Cabo
 Up in the womb, but you can feel it when I kick it, I know
 And U2 must be rockin' with Lil Dicky, Bono
 It's like I hit the lotto
 I had to hit the wall though
 I couldn't see it for a minute
 Shit was hittin' wall though
 They treat it like I'm goin' crazy
 I'm just playin', I don't
 It's just I know
 It's just I know
 Twenty three bars up in my apartment
 I am debarred
 Gotta do this shit
 I gotta recharge
 But I gotta be smart
 Movin' up that ladder company
 Star, fuck it, that ain't nothin'
 I am the star
 Spittin' like a retard
 Work was like a prison
 I'm just seein' bars
 My boss was all up in my camp
 And I'm just seein' Lars
 I been a heavyweight, Muhammad Ali
 And if he can mold that out of "Clay"
 Then I can turn the Lil D
 So now I'm snappin' like I'm Truman
 But off and on
 There's always somethin' in the way
 I should be often gone
 Girl I'm sorry if this draggin'
 I just need you to imagine
 Bein' stuck up on the land without a captain
 When everyday is average
 And everyday you feelin' like a captive
 And feel like somethin' seriously lackin'
 And then you fear what could happen if you just leave it on the table like napkins
 But, yo, you really fearin' hitting them rappin's and leaving everything behind
 'Cause you don't know what that horizon brings
 But girl you gotta know what kind of fish you is
 Survival instinct kicked in
 Sink or swim
 I flipped a playlist
 Quit my day gig
 Now, I'm on a boat, Lonely Island
 Irony, yeah you still been tryin' to figure how I work this tirelessly
 But girl
 This is everything I've thought
 This for everything I've fought
 This for who I am to me becomes to y'all
 (Go)
 They tellin' me "nah"
 But I just be tellin' them "yeah" (Go)
 I just be tellin' them "yeah" (Go)
 I just be tellin' them "yeah"
 Tell 'em I'm gone (Yeah)
 I just pretend I ain't scared (Go)
 Don't even know I was there (Go)
 Don't even know if I care
 'Cause girl this is Truman approachin' the wall
 Until I'm me I am nothin' at all
 Until I'm free I will not see beyond
 I had to be who I was all along
 Ay I think I mighta broke it down
 Hoppin' on the fuckin' steps like ain't no around
 Open up that door, you bet, ship ain't goin' down
 Guess the only thing that's left is to take a bow
 Aw, damn! Aw, damn!
 You that motherfucker shit
 I know
 This ship became a trip, Cabo
 Up in the womb, but you can feel it when I kick it, I know
 And U2 must be rockin' with Lil Dicky, Bono
 It's like I hit the lotto
 I had to hit the wall though
 I couldn't see it for a minute
 Shit was hidden, Waldo
 They treat it like I'm goin' crazy
 I'm just prayin', I don't
 It's just I know
 It's just I know
 (Just I know) Fuck! (Just I know)
 That felt good
 Well, that's all I got
 The show is over, as they say
 Honestly, uh I just think that part in the Truman Show where his boat hits the wall
 Is really the exact moment that I'm at in my own life right now
 Uh, metaphorically, of course
 And I'm ready for - I think I'm read for it
 Like I've been thinkin' about it, I think I'm ready
 I mean, if I'm being completely transparent with y'all
 Uh, like my lifestyle hasn't really changed that much
 Uh, you know, considering, uh, where I think I'm at musically
 Like I'm still at the point right now where pretty much any bitch that tweets at me anything remotely flirtatious
 I have seen not just one of your pictures, I have seen the entire catalog
 That's the type of shit that's goin' down over here right now, so...
 I am definitely ready for that, uh, next step, y'know what I'm sayin'?
 I think it's close, too
 I think it's close
 Like, uh, Diddy tweeted about me
 Uh, you know, I don't know if he handles his own Twitter
 I would assume he probably doesn't, actually
 But, like, I'm so confident that I feel as though, like, me and Diddy will have a moment just about this outro
 Like when we're both sittin' next to each other smokin' cigars
 And bein' like, "Ay, remember when you said that shit on that outro?"
 Like, and I'm like, "Yeah. That's, this is the exact moment I - I did that for, y'know what I'm sayin'?"
 Bring the - bring the beat back up. I don't know why
 Like, keep, loop everything. I wanna be talkin' for minutes, yeah, uh, y'know what I'm sayin'?
 Like, uh, shout out my Macbook Pro
 Had that shit since '09
 I made my first song ever on it
 Like, when I called myself Lil Dicky
 I made my, like, fuckin' album songs on that shit
 And we survived, baby
 Uh, shoutout Allen Iverson, Larry David, Will Smith, and Kobe Bryant
 For makin' me the man that I am today
 Both on and off the court
 Shout out my mother
 What a great woman
 She's so mad that I recorded these conversations
 She - she honestly went crazy
 It took so much convincing to allow this
 But, she's awesome
 She's adapting to the rap game, as we all are
 Look, I just want to get this to a place where I can sell TMZ pictures of my actual asshole
 Heh, y'know?
 'Cause, well, I, I think that'd be such a feat
 If I could actually create, like, an alt alias
 And sell TMZ pictures of my own asshole
 Like, profit off of that
 That, I would totally do it
 I don't know why Seth Rogen's not already doing it
 I don't, I'm seein' the signs that it's not, that I'm I think I'm seein' the signs
 I hope I am
 If I'm really just misreading all these signs
 Then, I am 100% gonna have, like, a legitimate nervous breakdown
 Uh, at some point very soon
 So, we'll find out about that
 But I see some signs
 Like, like I really am not fuckin' that much
 But, like, the other day I did fuck a bitch to music
 Like, I fucked a bitch to some Miguel
 And that's kind of new for me if I'm bein' real
 Like, I had never actually done it before
 But I was feelin' like I was some king shit
 Y'know what I'm sayin'?
 So, I was like, "Man, Imma fuck this bitch to some Miguel right now"
 Uh, actually to be completely real to you, I, I will never fuck a girl to music again
 I found the whole thing to feel, like, completely cliche
 Like, I don't need my emotions dictated to me by, like, music
 It makes me feel like I'm in like a TV scene
 Takes all the, like, realness out of the moment for me
 Like, actually, was actually super weirded out by it
 So, but still, like, I am about to let my hair down
 And, I don't know, I just feel like it's all comin'
 I feel like, like, I'm literally, like, about to find out about everything
 And it's exciting
 And, I, y'know, I, I had pinkeye last week
 And I remember thinkin' that, as I, like, was like, real down
 'Cause I was, like, trying to keep recording and shit
 But I was thinking, "What would Michael Jordan do?"
 And he would play through the pinkeye
 So that's why I'm in here
 I'm still not fully recovered, y'know what I'm sayin'?
 I, I'm definitely clearin' up
 Like, it's totally on the upswing
 But, I just want you know I did record this shit through pinkeye
 Alright, I could talk for fuckin' years
 Legitimate years
 This is an outro to an out
 You see how long I talk with outros to songs
 But, goddamn
 Look, I need to get out of here
 I'm 'bout to go take a Khalifa
 Rest up
 That's right, I did invent that phrase just there
 "Take a Khalifa"
 Y'know what I'm sayin'?
 I also invented "That's what she said"
 But I get no credit for it
 Uh, oh, shoutout to Dickheads, obviously
 Fundin' this whole operation
 Whatchu know about a Kickstarter, man?
 Whatchu know about the best fans in the world?
 Seriously
 Thank you guys, I appreciate it
 Honestly, you made my dreams come true, and that's fact
 Couldn't have done this without y'all
 Uh, I'd like to shoutout my dick
 I know, y'know, we haven't had the smoothest relationship
 But, I feel as though by kind of putting our issues out there
 Like, we have become something bigger than we could have been otherwise
 And, hopefully soon you will be rewarded for your patience
 And I will be rewarded for my patience
 I, and, I respect you
 I'd like to shoutout my brain
 My brain got the hardest verse on the whole goddamn album
 I hope my brain starts gettin' some feature looks
 But he don't just hop on shit
 Fuck, I, I got nothin' left
 I'm out
 I'm a professional rapper
 Long live LD
 And in case I don't see ya
 "Good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight."

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Duration
10:14
Key
8
Tempo
89 BPM

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