Pyramids

Album: Channel Orange (2012)
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  • Set the cheetahs on the loose
    There's a thief out on the move
    Underneath our legion's view
    They have taken Cleopatra

    Run run run, come back for my glory
    Bring her back to me
    Run run run, the crown of our pharaoh
    The throne of our queen is empty

    We'll run to the future, shining like diamonds
    In a rocky world, rocky rocky world
    Our skin like bronze and our hair like cashmere
    As we march to the rhythm, on the palace floor
    Chandeliers inside the pyramid, tremble from the force
    Cymbals crash inside the pyramid, voices fill up the halls

    Set the cheetahs on the loose
    There's a thief out on the move
    Underneath our legion's view
    They have taken Cleopatra, Cleopatra

    The jewel of Africa, jewel
    What good is a jewel that ain't still precious?
    How could you run off on me? How could you run off on us?
    You feel like God inside that gold
    I found you laying down with Samson and his full head of hair
    I found my black queen Cleopatra, bad dreams, Cleopatra

    Remove her, send the cheetahs to the tomb
    Our war is over, our queen has met her doom
    No more, she lives no more serpent in her room
    No more, he has killed Cleopatra, Cleopatra

    Big sun coming strong through the motel blinds
    Wake up to your girl for now, let's call her Cleopatra, Cleopatra
    I watch you fix your hair
    Then put your panties on in the mirror, Cleopatra
    Then your lipstick, Cleopatra
    Then your six-inch heels
    Catch her
    She's headed to the pyramid
    She's working at the pyramid tonight

    Working at the pyramid
    Working at the pyramid tonight
    Working at the pyramid
    Working at the pyramid tonight
    Working at the pyramid
    Working at the pyramid tonight
    Working at the pyramid
    Working at the pyramid tonight

    Pimping in my convos
    Bubbles in my champagne
    Let it be some jazz playing
    Top floor motel suite twisting my cigars
    Floor model TV with the VCR
    Got rubies in my damn chain
    Whip ain't got no gas tank
    But it still got wood grain
    Got your girl working for me
    Hit the strip and my bills paid
    That keep my bills paid
    Hit the strip and my bills paid
    Keep a nigga bills paid
    She's working at the pyramid tonight

    Working at the pyramid
    Working at the pyramid tonight
    Working at the pyramid
    Working at the pyramid tonight
    Working at the pyramid
    Working at the pyramid tonight
    Working at the pyramid

    You showed up after work I'm bathing your body
    Touch you in places only I know
    You're wet and you're warm just like our bathwater
    Can we make love before you go
    The way you say my name makes me feel like
    I'm that nigga
    But I'm still unemployed
    You say it's big but you take it
    Ride cowgirl
    But your love ain't free no more, baby
    But your love ain't free no more

    She's working at the pyramid tonight
    Working at the pyramid
    Working at the pyramid tonight
    Working at the pyramid, that's right
    Working at the pyramid tonight, yeah
    Working at the pyramid
    Working at the pyramid tonight
    Working at the pyramid
    Working at the pyramid tonight

    (Air guitar) Writer/s: Christopher Breaux, James Ryan Wuithun Ho, Taylor Scott Johnson
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Downtown Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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