I Told You Life Was Beautiful

Cynical Optimism: Reality before ideology. A state of existence in which one questions or rejects the qualities and values of the world, all the while retaining a utopian outlook on life. Usually results in genuine joy as opposed to perceived happiness.
syn. Positive Skepticism

...Clothes that you rap about, s’ that I stayed in.
You n’s get love, but that’s the s’ that I was made in.

Well, they told me I was beautiful
I told you I was beautiful
I told you I was beautiful
I told you I was beautiful

Like Stevie on the keys,
Isley on the strings;
Every time I see you it reminds me of them things.
Every time I see you it reminds me of my dreams.
Everything is fine, [I] hope I find you when I leave.
Just because I style, they think I aint broken.
And just because I smile, they be thinking I be joking.
I pass on the blunt and n’s think that I be smoking.
Bust my A’s hat and n’s think that I’m from Oakland,
But I’m just athletic; Just as Reddick.
And when I say you’re fine, I’m talking just aesthetics
‘Cause it’s kind of a façade.
You steady going out. Chest be poking out,
When you know you got a job
And you barely got benefits
Talking what you fitna get
It’s all cool now, but I want you to remember this…
…Sin a bit, pray more. Thank you for this day, Lord.
Only answer to You, so I shouldn’t have to say more.

And I told you life was beautiful
I told you it was beautiful
I told you I was beautiful
I told you I was beautiful
I told you I was beautiful
I told you I was beautiful