That Power (Explicit)-Childish Gambino

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[00:00.00]That Power (Explicit) - Childish Gambino
[00:01.83]All these haters
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[00:04.34]See you later
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[00:07.23]All that I could do
[00:09.64]But you don't even feel me though
[00:11.22]I know you know I know you got that power
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[00:16.90]That power
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[00:19.89]Oh oh oh
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[00:22.95]So CG but a ni**a stay real
[00:25.40]Though I'm fly I'm ill I'm running sh*t
[00:27.15]3-points field goal
[00:28.39]Rappers used to laugh like I tripped and fell
[00:30.89]Cause I don't stunt a gold cross like I Christian bail
[00:33.70]Yeah they starin' at me jealous cause I do shows bigger
[00:36.57]But your looks don't help like an old gold digger
[00:39.38]Uncool but lyrically I'm a stone cold killer
[00:42.12]So it's 400 blows to these Truffaut niggas
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[00:45.99]Yeah now that's the line of the century
[00:48.11]Niggas missed it too busy
[00:49.35]They lyin' 'bout penitentiary
[00:50.98]Man you ain't been there
[00:52.41]Ni**a you been scared
[00:54.03]And I'm still living single like Synclaire
[00:56.65]Lovin' white dudes who call me white and then try to hate
[00:59.72]When I wasn't white enough to use your pool when I was 8
[01:02.71]Stone Mountain you raised me well
[01:04.70]I'm stared at by Confederates but hard as hell
[01:07.65]Tight jeans penny loafers but I still drink a Bodine
[01:10.46]Staying on my me sh*t but hated on by both sides
[01:13.58]I'm just a kid who blowing up with my father's name
[01:16.51]And every black"you're not black enough"
[01:18.14]Is a white"you're all the same"
[01:19.57]Mm Food like Rapp Snitch Knishes
[01:21.77]Cuz its oreos twinkies coconuts delicious
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[01:25.14]How many gold plaques you want inside your dining room
[01:27.70]I said I want a full house
[01:29.14]They said"You got it dude"
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[01:32.03]All these haters
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[01:34.71]See you later
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[01:37.52]All that I could do
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[01:39.71]But you don't even feel me though
[01:41.51]I know you know I know you got that power
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[01:47.13]That power
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[01:50.13]Oh oh oh
[01:52.56]Holla holla holla holla at yo boy
[01:54.50]Like yo dad when he's pissed off
[01:56.00]Got flow I could make a cripple crip walk
[01:58.86]Niggas' breath stank all they do is sh*t talk
[02:01.61]People want a real man I made 'em wait this long
[02:04.61]Maybe if he bombs he'll quit and keep actin'
[02:07.16]And save paper like your aunt does with McDonald napkins
[02:09.98]How'd it happen Honesty did it
[02:12.55]See all of my competition at the bodies exhibit
[02:15.23]Yeah I bodied the limits and I get at them fakers
[02:18.11]Motherf**k if you hate it cremated them haters
[02:20.94]So my studio be a funeral
[02:23.85]Yeah this is our year oh you didn't know
[02:27.15]Uh yeah I'm killin' you step inside the lion's den
[02:29.83]Man I'm hov if the 'O' was an 'I' instead
[02:32.90]On stage with my family in front of me
[02:35.53]I am what I am: everything I wanna be
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[02:39.75]All these haters
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[02:42.31]See you later
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[02:45.36]All that I could do
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[02:47.49]But you don't even feel me though
[02:49.30]I know you know I know you got that power
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[02:54.86]That power
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[03:13.01]This is on a bus back from camp
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[03:16.28]I'm thirteen and so are you
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[03:18.53]Before I left for camp I imagined it would be me and three or four other dudes I hadn't met yet running around all summer
[03:23.10]Getting into trouble
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[03:25.65]It turned out it would be me and just one girl
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[03:28.02]That's you
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[03:29.52]And we're still at camp
[03:30.58]As long as we're on the bus
[03:31.66]And not at the pickup point
[03:32.78]Where our parents would be waiting for us
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[03:34.97]We're still wearing our orange camp t-shirts
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[03:37.23]We still smell like pineneedles
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[03:39.35]I like you and you like me and I more-than-like you
[03:42.21]But I don't know if you do or don't more-than-like me
[03:45.15]You've never said so I haven't been saying anything all summer
[03:48.20]Content to enjoy the small miracle of a girl
[03:50.26]Choosing to talk to me and choosing to do so again
[03:52.74]The next day and so on
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[03:54.99]A girl who's smart and funny and who
[03:58.00]If I say something dumb for a laugh
[04:00.12]Is willing to say something two or three times
[04:01.81]As dumb to make me laugh
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[04:03.68]But who also gets weird and wise sometimes in a way I could never be
[04:07.18]A girl who reads books that no one's assigned to her
[04:10.37]Whose curly brown hair has a line running through it from
[04:13.49]Where she put a tie to hold it up while it was still wet
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[04:16.55]Back in the real world we don't go to the same school
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[04:20.17]And unless one of our families moves to a dramatically different neighborhood
[04:23.23]We won't go to the same high school
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[04:25.35]So this is kind of it for us Unless I say something
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[04:29.93]And it might especially be it for us if I actually do say something
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[04:34.44]The sun's gone down and the bus is quiet
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[04:37.00]A lot of kids are asleep
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[04:38.74]We're talking in whispers about a tree we saw at a rest stop that looks like a kid we know
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[04:43.49]And then I'm like"Can I tell you something"
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[04:47.65]And all of a sudden I'm telling you
[04:49.40]And I keep telling you and it all comes out of me
[04:52.29]And it keeps coming and your face is there and gone
[04:54.53]And there and gone as we pass underneath the orange lamps
[04:56.58]That line the sides of the highway
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[04:58.58]And there's no expression on it
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[05:00.40]And I think just after a point
[05:01.95]I'm just talking to lengthen the time
[05:03.83]Where we live in a world where you haven't said"yes" or"no" yet
[05:07.95]And regrettably I end up using the word"destiny" I
[05:13.31]Don't remember in what context
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[05:15.49]Doesn't really matter
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[05:17.68]Before long I'm out of stuff to say
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[05:20.11]And you smile and say"okay"
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[05:23.06]I don't know exactly what you mean by it
[05:24.93]But it seems vaguely positive and I would leave in order not to spoil the moment
[05:28.67]But there's nowhere to go because we're are on a bus
[05:31.17]So I pretend like I'm asleep and before long I really am
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[05:37.23]I wake up the bus isn't moving anymore
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[05:40.66]The domed lights that line the center aisle are all on
[05:43.28]I turn and you're not there
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[05:45.86]Then again a lot of kids aren't in their seats anymore
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[05:48.72]We're parked at the pick-up point
[05:50.47]Which is in the parking lot of a Methodist church
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[05:53.36]The bus is half empty
[05:54.73]You might be in your dad's car by now
[05:56.76]Your bags and things piled high in the trunk
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[05:59.45]The girls in the back of the bus are shrieking
[06:01.07]And laughing and taking their sweet time disembarking
[06:02.67]As I swing my legs out into the aisle to get up off the bus
[06:06.11]Just as one of them reaches my row
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[06:08.78]It used to be our row on our way off
[06:11.78]It's Michelle
[06:13.53]A girl who got suspended from third grade for a week
[06:17.03]After throwing rocks at my head
[06:18.15]
[06:19.33]Adolescence is doing her a ton of favors body-wise
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[06:22.45]She stops and looks down at me
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[06:24.82]And her head is blasted from behind by the dome light
[06:26.94]So I can't really see her face but I can see her smile
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[06:30.68]And she says one word:"destiny"
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[06:35.86]Then her and the girls clogging the aisles behind her
[06:37.80]All laugh and then she turns and leads them off the bus
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[06:42.62]I didn't know you were friends with them
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[06:46.99]I find my dad in the parking lot
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[06:49.17]He drives me back to our house and camp is over
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[06:52.23]So is summer even though there's two weeks until school starts
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[06:57.47]This isn't a story about how girls are evil or how love is bad
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[07:01.34]This is a story about how I learned something
[07:03.71]And I'm not saying this thing is true or not
[07:05.40]I'm just saying it's what I learned
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[07:07.39]I told you something
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[07:09.01]It was just for you and you told everybody
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[07:12.01]So I learned cut out the middle man
[07:13.46]Make it all for everybody always
[07:15.09]Everybody can't turn around and tell everybody
[07:17.08]Everybody already knows I told them
[07:18.64]But this means there isn't a place in my life for you or someone like you
[07:22.50] Is it sad Sure But it's a sadness I chose
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[07:27.05]I wish I could say this was a story about how I got on the bus a boy and got off a man more cynical hardened and mature and sh*t
[07:32.99]But that's not true
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[07:35.24]The truth is I got on the bus a boy And I never got off the bus
[07:38.74]I still haven't