Homecoming

Album: Graduation (2007)
Charted: 9 69
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  • Yeah
    And you say Chi city, Chi city, Chi city
    I'm coming home again

    Do you think about me now and then? (yeah)
    Do you think about me now and then?
    'Cause I'm coming home again, comin' (ow) home again

    I met this girl when I was three years old
    And what I loved most she had so much soul
    She said, "Excuse me lil' homie, I know you don't know mebut
    my name is Windy and I like to blow trees" and
    from that point I never blow her off
    Niggas come from out of town, I like to show her off
    They like to act tough, she like to tow 'em off
    And make 'em straighten up their hat 'cause she know they soft
    And when I grew up she showed me how to go downtown
    In the nighttime her face lit up, so astounding
    I told her in my heart is where she'll always be
    She never messed with entertainers 'cause they always leave
    She said, "It felt like they walked and drove on me
    Knew I was gang affiliated, got on TV and told on me"
    I guess that's why last winter she got so cold on me
    She said "'Ye, keep making that keep making that platinum and gold for me"
    I'm coming home again

    Do you think about me now and then?
    Do you think about me now and then?
    'Cause I'm coming home again
    Do you think about me now and then?
    Do you think about me now and then?
    Now I'm coming home again
    Maybe we can start again

    But if you really cared for her
    Then you wouldn't have never hit the airport to follow your dreams
    Sometimes I still talk to her, but when I talk to her
    It always seems like she talking 'bout me
    She said, "You left your kids, and they just like you
    They want to rap and make soul beats just like you
    But they just not you" and I just got through
    Talking 'bout what niggas tryna do, just not new
    Now everybody got the game figured out all wrong
    I guess you never know what you got 'til it's gone
    I guess that's why I'm here and I can't come back home
    And guess when I heard that? When I was back home
    Every interview I'm representing you, making you proud
    Reach for the stars so if you fall, you land on a cloud
    Jump in the crowd, spark your lighters, wave 'em around
    If you don't know by now, I'm talking 'bout Chi-Town!

    I'm coming home again
    Do you think about me now and then?
    Do you think about me now and then?
    'Cause I'm coming home again

    Maybe you, do you remember when?
    Fireworks at Lake Michigan
    Oh, now I'm coming home again
    Maybe you, do you remember when?
    Fireworks at Lake Michigan
    Oh, now I'm coming home again
    Maybe we can start again Writer/s: Antony Williams, Chris Martin, Kanye West, Warryn Campbell
    Publisher: Payday Music Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Alek from Skopje, Macedonia"I met this girl when I was three years old// and what I loved most she had so much soul"

    that is kanye paying homage to Common's hip-hop classic "I Used to love H.E.R." where in fact the girl in the story is Hip-hop itself. I think that Kanye is referring to the same "girl" and blowing trees is another way to say smoke weed... Kanye also says that guys act tough around this "girl" which means that guys who are soft act tough and portray themselves as hard in hip-hop

    then the second half is how kanye is saying that his heart will always be with hip-hop and rapping and that she doesnt go for the shallow "entertainers" (aka not hip-hoppers, pick your favorite radio rapper) and that hip-hop will stay with the people who stay true to it
  • Jonathan from Hadsten, DenmarkThere is a little discussion about this song here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080207200854AAQl7Wg
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