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Illuminate the Skyline Lyrics by Mayor Talib

Flat Pillow Poet

2021

[Verse 1]
Dress slacks fitted cardigan
The one you got to guard to win
No point in looking back
I feel like I done came too far to end
Used to find it hard to grin
I know what haters say to me
It really doesn’t matter
I got talent people pay to see
People that will sway for me
I spend a couple some hours veering
Driving to my destiny
I do it with no power steering
So now I’m clearing all these
Avenues for revenue
Amazing how some confidence
Can really put a rev in you
Ready for whatever
Cause whatever's right around the way
Cost to be the boss
And lots of people not around to pay
They not around today
They probably selling Vicodin
I met the grind when I was nine
And I ain’t really like her then
But now I be like psyche get in
Had to move my pivot
All this music got me traveling
I love it cause I live it
Doubters always got a lot to say
They all up in my browser
Just some Mario's
Who want no part of Bowser
[Hook]
Illuminate the skyline
People love the real
Light the B of A building
Hornets purple with some teal
Illuminate the skyline
People love the view
Pulling up to Center City
Seeing Carolina Blue
Illuminate the skyline
People love the real
Light the B of A building
Hornets purple with some teal
Illuminate the skyline
People love the view
Pulling up to Center City
Seeing Carolina Blue
[Verse 2]
Custom or fitted
I’m looking fly when I spit it
It’s obvious that you love me
So you ain’t got to admit it
You think I’m flopping forget it
Experience is my sensei
My sins say
They deadly but they'll get your boy a ten day
Comprende
Lots of inconsistency
With living right
Back riding back sliding
Wilding on a given night
Winning is a given right
Feel I like I’m entitled to it
Talk it like I bring it
Like a champ I bring a title to it
It’s in my vital fluid
This is nothing but a dream
Made my cake a while ago
The life I live is butter cream
No matter what it seem
I know I’m first contender
Wedded to this white collar
Loving vs. Virginia
Making sure my name is known
In every single zip code
Lounging on my laurels
Then I get on take a trip mode
Picture me rolling on the 485
With the best sound
Shooting for the stars
This a test round
[Hook]
Illuminate the skyline
People love the real
Light the B of A building
Hornets purple with some teal
Illuminate the skyline
People love the view
Pulling up to Center City
Seeing Carolina Blue
Illuminate the skyline
People love the real
Light the B of A building
Hornets purple with some teal
Illuminate the skyline
People love the view
Pulling up to Center City
Seeing Carolina Blue
[Outro]
You might have to be from Charlotte
Or from Mecklenburg County
To fully appreciate it
But it's just something about
Driving through uptown or walking uptown
And seeing that skylike lit up
That just really makes me happy
You know what I'm saying
Seeing it red, white, and blue
On the Fourth of July
Or or green on Saint Patrick’s Day
Or red, black, and green during Juneteenth
You know what I’m saying it’s a beautiful thing
It's like yeah, the skylines lit up I’m home
Welcome to Charlotte everybody 704 in this thing
Teal and purple when the Hornets win
Uh, I guess it's just blue when the Panthers win
Cause black wouldn’t really show up
Well in in the skyline
Credits
Mayor Talib

Mayor Talib

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