I Do This

This is a world premiere!
This is a world premiere!

[Verse 1:]
I done been through a whole lot,
Trial, tribulation, but I know God,
Satan wanna put me in a bow tie,
Prayin' that the holy water don't go dry.
As I look around me,
So many mothafuckas wanna down me,
But ain't no nigga never drown me,
In front of a dirty double-mirror they found me, and

[Chorus:]
I love myself!
The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs.
I love myself!
But it can do what it want whenever it wants, and I don't mind.
I love myself!
He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide.
I love myself
One day at a time, sun gon' shine.

[Verse 2:]
Everybody lookin' at you crazy, crazy!
What you gon' do? What you gon' do?
Lift up your head and keep movin', keep movin'!
Or let the paranoia haunt you? Haunt you!
Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart
On my sleeve, let the runway start.
You know the miserable do love company,
What do you want from me and my scars?
Everybody lack confidence, everybody lack confidence,
How many times our potential was anonymous?
How many times the city makin' me promises?
So I promise this.

[Chorus:]
I love myself!
The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs.
I love myself!
But it can do what it want whenever it wants, and I don't mind.
I love myself!
He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide.
I love myself
One day at a time, sun gon' shine.

[Verse 3:]
They wanna say there's a war outside and a bomb in the street,
And a gun in the hood, and a mob of police,
And a rock on the corner, and a line full of fiends,
And a bottle full of lean and a model on the scene, yup!
These days of frustration keep y'all on duckin' rotation,
I duck these gold faces, post up fee-fi-fo-fum basis.
Dreams of realities peace,
Blow steam in the face of the beast,
The sky can fall down, the wind can cry now,
The strong in me, I still smile.

[Chorus:]
I love myself!
The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs.
I love myself!
But it can do what it want whenever it wants, and I don't mind.
I love myself!
He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide.
I love myself
One day at a time, sun gon' shine.

[Bridge:]
Walk my bare feet! Walk my bare feet!
Down, down, valley deep! Down, down, valley deep!
I love myself!
I keep my fee-fi-fo-fum. Fee-fi-fo-fum!
I love myself!
I keep my heart undone. My heart undone!

[Chorus:]
I love myself!
The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs.
I love myself!
But it can do what it want whenever it wants, and I don't mind.
I love myself!
He said I gotta get up, life is more than suicide.
I love myself
One day at a time, sun gon' shine.

[Verse 4]
I went to war last night
With an automatic weapon, don't nobody call a medic,
Imma do it till I get it right.
I went to war last night,
I've been dealin' with depression ever since an adolescent,
Duckin' every other blessin', I can never see the message,
I can never take the lead, I can never bob and weave
For my nigga that be lettin' ‘em annihilate me,
And it's evident I'm movin' at a meteor speed,
Finna run into a building, lay my body in the street,
Keep my money in the ceiling, let my mama know I'm free,
Give my story to the children and the lesson they can read,
And the glory to the feeling of the holy unseen,
Seen enough, make a mothafucka scream, “I love myself!”

I lost my head,
I've must misread what the good book said,
Oh, woes keep me, it's a jungle inside,
Give myself again till the well runs dry.