Fireworks

Album: Thank Me Later (2010)
Charted: 71
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  • Money just changed everything
    I wonder how life without it would go
    From the concrete who knew that a flower would grow
    Looking down from the top and it's crowded below
    My fifteen minutes started an hour ago
    Truth over fame, you know I respect the blatant shit
    When I hear 'em talking, I just don't know what to make of it
    Hate is so familiar to me, I'm slowly embracing it
    Doesn't come natural, bear with me, it could take a bit
    Yeah and my dreams are who I'm racing with
    But you can see I'm pacing it so that I'm always chasing it
    Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper with
    I hope that my success never alters our relationship
    Yeah, this life is something I would die for
    October's Own but it's looking like July 4
    I just wish they'd let you try it first
    This time I'm really going off, fireworks

    Oh, today it begins
    I've missed them before
    But won't miss them again
    I keep having the same dream
    And I think I just realized what it means

    All I see is fireworks
    All I see is fireworks
    Every night it's fireworks
    Every night it's fireworks
    All I see is fireworks
    All I see is fireworks
    Taking off like fireworks
    Taking off like, oh

    I'm just such a gentleman, you should give it up for me
    Look at how I'm placing all my napkins and my cutlery
    I could tell it wasn't love, I just thought you'd fuck with me
    Who could of predicted Lucky Strike would have you stuck with me
    Damn, I kept my wits about me luckily
    What happened between us that night? It always seems to trouble me
    Now all of a sudden, these gossip rags want to cover me
    And you making it seem that it happened that way because of me
    But I was curious
    And I'll never forget it, baby, what an experience
    You could've been the one but it wasn't that serious
    There was smoke in the air before, that was me clearing it
    That felt good, all in all, I learned a lesson from it though
    You never see it coming, you just get to see it go
    Yeah, I should've looked up in the sky at first
    Now I can see it in her eyes, fireworks

    Oh, today it begins
    I've missed them before
    But won't miss them again
    I keep having the same dream
    And I think that I just realized what it means

    All I see is fireworks
    All I see is fireworks
    Every night it's fireworks
    Every night it's fireworks
    All I see is fireworks
    All I see is fireworks
    Taking off like fireworks
    Taking off like, oh

    Everything's the same but it feels different
    My dad called me up knowing that I still listen
    And he's still got his foot out, guilt trippin'
    It's been years though, I just learn to deal with it
    For real, me and my realtor, we built up a better rapport
    Got my mother in a place with some better decor
    She searched the entire city, I let her explore
    And now she's saying she's more lonely than ever before
    How many of our parents marriages lasted?
    I was only 5, I bet I barely reacted
    I'm flying back home for the Heritage Classic
    Searching for that feeling, tell me where is the magic
    Let's stay together 'til we're ghosts
    I want to witness love, I never seen it close
    Yeah, but I guess I gotta find it first
    That's why I'm really going off, fireworks

    Oh, today it begins
    I've missed them before
    But won't miss them again
    I keep having the same dream
    And I think that I just realized what it means

    All I see is fireworks
    All I see is fireworks
    Every night it's fireworks
    Every night it's fireworks
    All I see is fireworks
    All I see is fireworks
    Taking off like fireworks
    Taking off like, oh
    Oh, ah, oh
    Oh, ah, oh
    Oh, ah, oh
    Oh, ah, oh
    Oh, ah, oh
    Oh, ah, oh
    Oh, ah, oh
    Oh, ah, oh Writer/s: Alicia Augello Cook, Aubrey Drake Graham, Christian Kalla, Matthew Jehu Samuels, Noah James Shebib
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Reservoir Media Management, Inc., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Daniel from Winchester, OhThis song is what made me actually like Drake as an artist. :D
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