Lyrics SHOES (feat. Virgil Abloh).lrc Lupe Fiasco
[id: pshxucio]
[ar: Lupe Fiasco]
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[ti: SHOES (feat. Virgil Abloh)]
[length: 06:44]
[00:07.88]Uh
[00:09.32]Yeah, uh
[00:10.52]Been standing in line since Thursday
[00:12.65]I heard a rumor they might be dropping them early
[00:15.57]Should have ’em just in time for your birthday
[00:17.77]Irrelevant holiday affair
[00:19.69]Got one of those three-leg folding chairs
[00:21.58]I am what you call prepared for the camp-out
[00:24.72]Evening brings the battery-powered lamps out
[00:27.63]Warm clothes but blanket ‘case it get cold
[00:30.58]Corn chips and basic staples to hold
[00:33.18]Hunger over ’til Uber Eats is ordered
[00:35.51]Maybe pizza, or quesadillas and sopa
[00:38.31]Got a little cooler with assorted waters and sodas
[00:41.27]Cinnamon sugar-coated malassada, the odor
[00:44.03]Makes me the envy of the line
[00:45.77]If not the enemy, not my energy
[00:47.52]I’ll be spending plenty of time
[00:49.45]Inside the books that I bought
[00:51.15]Got audios and regulars
[00:52.68]Quite the party goer and reveler
[00:56.88]So
[00:59.36]On today’s to-do list is to design
[01:02.17]A pair of running shoes
[01:06.96]The goal is as always, in my work
[01:10.93]Is, to add emotion to inanimate objects, so
[01:15.41]Uh, release day is finally upon us
[01:17.66]More celebratory than the former
[01:20.55]But mixed with bittersweet vibes most certainly switched to different beats
[01:23.89]More policed than Justinian’s Byzantinian Christian beliefs
[01:27.15]There’s a risen rhythm you can feel it all in the streets
[01:30.09]Like a marathon or a parade
[01:33.03]Poets might wanna pull they pens out like grenades or
[01:36.09]Or that model for a year and a half
[01:38.34]And write down all the tears and the laughs
[01:40.89]A shot across the bow of the tyrannous class
[01:44.05]Quote from man standing on float
[01:46.34]The whole event is just biggest-fan-channeling dope
[01:48.97]I mean, one just feels privileged and esteemed
[01:51.97]Inwardly serene and spiritually clean
[01:55.46]Even the line feels like a team
[01:57.16]In stark opposition to a competition for things
[02:01.66]With that
[02:03.75]These shoes that we are about to design with words
[02:09.16]Starts with a sole
[02:11.63]Not a sole, but soul, you know, what touches you to earth
[02:16.29]That’s floating in nowhere, the soul
[02:20.34]Yeah, uh
[02:21.75]With touching signs of equality to match
[02:24.64]White kid at the front let me go first ’cause I was black
[02:28.89]Said it was only right
[02:30.23]He was used to having head starts his entire life
[02:32.82]Maybe it was time to step aside like trilobites
[02:35.55]Touching, I never forget it like riding bikes
[02:38.10]The ordeal starts to spring feelings like guiding light
[02:40.69]Permanent villains go about chilling they psychic fights
[02:43.67]Nice, and to a buyer’s delight
[02:46.22]You’re limited to two so that means I’m buying them twice
[02:49.23]One pair to wear, one pair on ice
[02:51.72]Aftermarket speculation will surely hike up the price
[02:55.62]Call that all in the plans
[02:57.59]Feeling like Mike with the ball in my hands
[03:00.01]Swear to God, it’s like the best game he ever played
[03:02.53]I get to wear the first pair possibly ever made
[03:05.37]What does that sole look like
[03:07.86]It’s soft to run on
[03:10.93]But tough enough to withstand the reality of the ground
[03:16.83]Or the reality of the context we’re living in
[03:19.79]That’s the soul
[03:23.19]Let’s just call it black
[03:24.91]Uh, yeah
[03:27.04]I get applause as I step outside the pop-up
[03:29.77]The shop resembles the unfinished house he was in before they shot us
[03:33.66]We fell down, then we got up
[03:35.99]Pick Pac up, pick Nip up
[03:38.63]This is the type of tripping that scuff kicks up
[03:40.98]Traditionally creases was a style to refuse
[03:43.49]But now they represent every mile in your shoes
[03:46.46]Any mud on your sole gets toweled and removed
[03:49.34]It’s like I’m retracing every trial, know it took strength
[03:51.83]Giant steps flowers growing out of the footprints
[03:54.94]Liberation, here’s your invitation
[03:57.77]It’s a relay race, continuation
[04:00.46]Get the baton and keep bringing it back
[04:02.70]That string theory means we’ll keep being attached
[04:05.19]Last thing, this is something of a sight
[04:08.23]Even when you take ’em off they keep running for your life
[04:12.16]You know, can withstand multiple beatings by the ground
[04:18.90]But it’s tough enough to continue on, that’s the sole
[04:24.08]Now there’s an upper on top of that sole
[04:27.59]The upper is made of leather
[04:31.31]Or maybe knit or maybe both, you know?
[04:37.67]That sole and that upper combined by stitches
[04:44.40]Leaves for a dynamic enclosure around the foot
[04:49.56]There’s a tongue, there’s even shoelaces
[04:52.84]You know, those shoelaces
[04:55.46]They are, literally, as elastic as a rubber band
[05:04.17]But as tough as links of steel, let’s call it chain links
[05:10.37]So, here we have the shoe taking shape
[05:15.34]There’s a logo on the side, fill in the blank of your favorite one
[05:20.07]They’re all man-made, it’s all good
[05:23.68]But this shoe, these Air Ahmauds or these Air Arberys
[05:30.78]Are starting to take shape now, you know?
[05:35.94]They connect man and earth, they allow you to run
[05:44.14]That running is freedom
[05:48.39]Accelerated heart rate by design through design
[05:53.77]Air Ahmaud, Air Arbery
[06:01.22]What color are these shoes?
[06:05.18]The upper of these shoes
[06:07.42]Maybe white, maybe black, pick your favorite
[06:12.56]But, you know, the world’s black and white anyways
[06:17.10]So might as well limit the whole color palette to that
[06:21.18]Signed, Virgil Abloh, in quotes of course
[06:26.64]Oh yeah, there’s a red zip-tie on this thing
[06:31.26]It makes it our own
[06:34.06]It’s tied into a history of art that’s now
[06:37.81]Copright 2020
[06:40.29]Year of Release: 2020