[Intro: Blu] Uh, yeah, uh Heheheh, sing it, sing it Uh, c'mon, love the whole world Hug the whole world, trust the whole world Yo, fuck the whole world, just trust the world Ayo, hug the whole world, I'ma fuck this whole world
[Hook: Blu] Whose world is this? (The world) Whose world is this? (The world) Whose world is this? (The world) Whose world is this? (The world)
[Verse 2: Blu] Yo, somebody once told me that I'm already in hell Freedom's a state of mind, it's just a heart of me's in hell I freed my slaved mind so a part of me's in hell So even when it's hard to breathe, a part of me inhales So pardon me, you gotta try hard to be yourself Cause you can't go to heaven being anybody else I was raised by a reverend yet the lessons didn't help (Uh-huh) Had to get 'em for myself (Yeah) I was told hell is hot but had to feel it for myself So I left home (Uh) As a young child smiling as I stepped on (Uh) Facing a world butt-naked without my weapon (Yeah) I lost my smile and in exchange, I put a vest on (Uh) Now that my premature stress is gone I got problems to face as a man (Yeah) I was told either you stand or you fall Long as you know that when you walk, you holding hands with a God (For real) That alone can turn the dark to a walk in the park I only talk from my heart So open yours when you're listening Every man has his own heaven The difference is the way that he envisions it so (Yeah) If you make your heaven picture-less (What?) By the time you die you'll be drifting in an imageless field So fill your heaven full of blessed thoughts That's real, you could stress it or just let it walk (Yeah) I got a question, if a man can make his own heaven (Uh-huh) Then can he make his path to get to it too? (I don't know) I only spit fluid truth (Okay) And I spit it for the listeners so I'm spittin' to you You say it's hell, I say it's bullshit we getting through (Yeah) Just think about it (Uh) every man has his own heaven (Right) But shit, you gotta go through hell to be a man first And understand first hell is what you choose to call the present (Yeah) That's why you're going through it, I just choose to call it stressin' (For real) To tell you fools the truth, I don't feel that's what I'm destined (At all) So you can call it hell but brah, I can say I'm below the heavens
[Outro: Miguel] The world, the world The world, the world The world, the world The world, the world Yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah yeah yeah yeah
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Blu contemplates the idea of heaven on this classic track off of his classic debut album Below the Heavens. The song samples Nas’s track, “The World is Yours” off of his classic debut Illmatic.
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