Lyrics Nappy Roots

Nappy Roots

Wings

Rise up

Rise up

Fly little bird

Don’t say goodbye

Nothing to be scared of

When the wind takes you high

Fly little bird

Can you sing my name

Home is where the heart is

Can you take me on

Take me on your wings

Life's an open-ended essay

Don’t worry about the ending

Cause when you think it’s finished

There’s a glorious addendum

The more you hate on someone else

The more you’re just pretending

Even though it’s been a decade

Our story is just beginning

And as long as I am winning

As long as God is willing

I’ll probably still be spittin’ in my 40’s or my 50’s

Or as long as I’m appealing

Thinking back when I was just a shorty

I was picky with my music

Didn’t really play my verses round my city

My recordings sounded shitty

But those are songs

I’ll be enjoying when I’m sixty

Kentucky was a mystery

On the border of the Dixie

This recording industry knows we important to the history

(Damn right) Brag until my brain hits till I’m seventy or eighty

Turned around the seven seas and wasn’t ever in the navy

Bring the lightning and the thunder

Turning ninety then a hundred

Then return into the cloud

Thinking life was so abundant

Fly little bird

Don’t say goodbye

Nothing to be scared of

When the wind takes you high

Fly little bird

Can you sing my name

Home is where the heart is

Can you take me on

Take me on your wings

Life’s good I got no complaints

While I toke we're

Reflecting at this window pane

It’s most insane

Everyday try not to go insane

90 in the slowest lane

Numb like it’s Novocain

No gain No pain

Life’s a poker game

I’m playing chess

Nappy Roots across the chest

Back the Country Fried Cess Bless

Ever since I left the nest

Been flying high

Everyday I must confess

I ain’t got regrets

You gotta fly little homie

Get away fast It ain’t safe here

Dreams decay here

Go to a fancy university and stay there

Get in your fast car and drive like you hate here

Just stay alive and on your feet

You’ll see better days

After your journey

Come back home

The love never fades

Stay out of trouble

Best you can

Make your folks the proudest

Travel round the world

And tell me all about it

Fly little bird

Don’t say goodbye

Nothing to be scared of

When the wind takes you high

Fly little bird

Can you sing my name

Home is where the heart is

Can you take me on

Take me on your wings