Ultralight Beam

Album: The Life of Pablo (2016)
Charted: 63 67
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  • I'm tryna keep my faith
    We on an ultralight beam
    We on an ultralight beam
    This is a God dream
    This is a God dream
    This is everything
    This is everything
    Deliver us serenity
    Deliver us peace
    Deliver us loving
    We know we need it
    You know we need it
    You know we need it
    That's why we need you now, oh, I
    Pray for Paris
    Pray for the parents
    This is a God dream
    This is a God dream
    This is a God dream
    We on an ultralight beam
    We on an ultralight beam
    This is a God dream
    This is a God dream
    This is everything
    Everything (Thing, thing, thing)

    I'm tryna keep my faith
    But I'm looking for more
    Somewhere I can feel safe
    And end my holy war
    I'm tryna keep my faith

    So why send oppression not blessings?
    Why, oh why'd you do me wrong? (More)
    You persecute the weak
    Because it makes you feel so strong
    (To save) Don't have much strength to fight
    So I look to the light
    (War) To make these wrongs turn right
    Head up high, I look to the light
    Hey, cause I know that you'll make everything alright
    And I know that you'll take good care of your child
    Oh, no longer am afraid of the night
    Cause I, I look to the light

    When they come for you, I will shield your name
    I will field their questions, I will feel your pain
    No one can judge
    They don't, they don't know
    They don't know
    Foot on the Devil's neck 'til it drifted Pangaea
    I'm moving all my family from Chatham to Zambia
    Treat the demons just like Pam
    I mean I fuck with your friends, but damn, Gina
    I been this way since Arthur was anteater
    Now they wanna hit me with the woo wap, the bam
    Tryna snap photos of familia
    My daughter look just like Sia, you can't see her
    You can feel the lyrics, the spirit coming in braille
    Tubman of the underground, come and follow the trail
    I made Sunday Candy, I'm never going to hell
    I met Kanye West, I'm never going to fail
    He said let's do a good ass job with Chance three
    I hear you gotta sell it to snatch the Grammy
    Let's make it so free and the bars so hard
    That there ain't one gosh darn part you can't tweet
    This is my part, nobody else speak
    This is my part, nobody else speak
    This little light of mine
    Glory be to God, yeah
    I'ma make sure that they go where they can't go
    If they don't wanna ride I'ma still give them raincoats
    Know what God said when he made the first rainbow
    Just throw this at the end if I'm too late for the intro
    Ugh, I'm just having fun with it
    You know that a nigga was lost
    I laugh in my head
    Cause I bet that my ex looking back like a pillar of salt
    Ugh, cause they'll flip the script on your ass like Wesley and Spike
    You cannot mess with the light
    Look at lil Chano from 79th

    We on an ultralight beam
    We on an ultralight beam
    This is a God dream
    This is a God dream
    This is everything
    Everything

    I'm tryna keep my faith
    But I'm looking for more
    Somewhere I can feel safe
    And end my holy war

    Father, this prayer is for everyone that feels they're not good enough
    This prayer's for everybody that feels like they're too messed up
    For everyone that feels they've said "I'm sorry" too many times
    You can never go too far when you can't come back home again
    That's why I need
    Faith, more, safe, war Writer/s: Chancelor Johnathan Bennett, Cydel Young, Derek J. Watkins, Jerome Potter, Kanye Omari West, Kasseem Dean, Kelly Cherelle Price, Kirk Franklin, Mike Dean, Nico Segal, Noah D. Goldstein, Samuel Griesemer, Terius Youngdell Nash
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Shapiro Bernstein & Co Inc, Songtrust Ave, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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