Coda - Lou

Have you ever wondered what it’s like

To watch your whole life flash before your eyes?

Let me paint a picture for you

Get rice!

I don’t have rice…

Stop filming me and get rice!

Get rice!

(Rice!)

Did the mixes by the pool

It was just a silly whim

Taught the album how to groove

But never taught it how to swim

Imagine for once you’re on top of the map (What?)

When you talk people clap

And they pay you to act

Pet Davidson sometimes texting you back (yah)

You’re funny and black so you gotta do rap

But then

When you try to give the world art

God make it stink bad like a girl fart

Cool at the edge of the pool

So he play you the fool

And you wanna know the worst part?

I know you all needed it (know you all needed it)

That’s why I completed it (that's why I completed it)

The pandemic spread

And Ruth Bader was dead

And the Prezzie was tweeting

And hate he was breeding

And everyone begging it, everyone pleading it:

Lou, are you leading it?

(Lou, please!)

Now, taking my EP would change dispositions

But maybe the VP would listen (hyah) and change his positions (hyah)

And see me on stage (hyah) and be swayed by the wisdom of just one musician

(uh-huh)

Really my mission’s to make it less vicious

And maybe my vision would see that those wishes

And take all the walls and rebuild them to bridges

And give us a vaccine ideally by Christmas.

(What?)

Make all my riches

And fuck all my bitches

And fill all the ditches with my opposition

But mainly this shit is religious

I dove in to fish it out (yo)

Watched its lights begin to dim (splash, splash)

Taught the album how to bounce

But never taught it how to swim.

(hyah, hyah, hyah, hyah, hyah)

Think if you will the exact moment when

Lost my artistic peak

And also my friend

But also my son

And also this son

Rap career gone 'fore it’s even begun.

(Why?)

I recall as it fall

I tried in vain to grab it (What?)

Screaming 'goddamnit'

Emotions running the gamut (What?)

It’s like Shakespeare had set fire to Hamlet (What? What?)

And Moses had the commandments and broke both the tablets.

(No!)

Always won by being driven

And going hard (Let's go)

It’s funny how I lose it all

On a hard drive

It’s a hard life

I’m scarred inside.

(Guns)

How can it be?

My tone poem

My memory (Bullets)

I can’t say how much it meant to me (tell 'em)

Was it meant to be?

(tell 'em)

Lost the best work of the century.

(tell 'em, hyah, hyah)

Ain’t seen enough rice in all of my years

To soak up my laptop and soak up my tears

Interstate — I’ve been here

Doing ninety on ten beers.

(driving)

Jesus Christ

Take the wheel and then steer

My heart sunk but my head clear

I’m mad here

Twenty twenty — a bad year

For just me

Sopping wet just like a mop

Never saw a sight so grim (splash, splash)

Taught the music how to bop (yo)

But never taught it how to swim

Bitch, going online to spread the news

That your masterpiece will never get reviews

That you won’t do on earth what you were sent to do

Gotta tell the whole world what it meant to you (a lot!)

Make a tear-filled post — you’re expecting boos (boos)

They won’t let a black dude express his truth (truth)

I just said my views, but then I got confused

'Cos I got mad likes instead of mad abuse

You astounded me

You all clowned to me

It was just all love surrounding me

May sound silly but the whole town with me

Dumbfounded me

And allowed me

To stay on my grind

And survive all the bad shit

The LouPrint now blasted by Jesus and Chadwick

You all keep on asking

If I’ll remake the LouPrint (why, why)

But why would I step where there’re already shoeprints?

This song is a coda

An ode on its body

It’s also a thank you

And also, I’m sorry.

(sorry, sorry, sorry…)

I still hear the music play

Like a sonic phantom limb

Taught the album how to sway

But never taught it how to swim