The Instrumental - Lupe Fiasco, Jonah Matranga

He just sits, and watches the people in the boxes

Everything he sees, he absorbs and adopts it

Mmm, he mimics and he mocks it

Really hates the box, but he can’t remember how to stop it

Uh, so he continues to watch it

Hoping that it’ll give him something that he can box with

Or how to locksmith, see, the box is locked in a box

Ain’t got the combination to unlock it

That’s why he watches, scared to look away

Cause at that moment, it might show him

What to take off the locks with

So he chained himself to the box, took a lock and then he locked it

Swallowed the combination and then forgot it

As the doctors jot it all down with they pens and pencils

The same ones that took away his voice

And just left this instrumental like that

And he never lies (He never lies, he never lies, uh)

And he never lies (Uh, he never lies, he never lies, no)

And he never lies (He never lies)

Cause he never said anything at all

He just sits, and listens to the people in the boxes

Everything he hears, he absorbs and adopts it

Anything not coming out the box, he blocks it

See, he loves the box and hope they never stop it

Anything the box tell him to do, he does it

Anything it tell him to get, he shops and he cops it

He protects the box, locks it in a box

When he goes to sleep, but he never sleeps

Cause he stays up to watch it, scared to look away

Cause at that moment, it might get stolen

And that’s the last of the boxes

So he chained himself to the box, took a lock and then he locked it

Swallowed the combination and then forgot, it

As the doctors jot it all down with they pens and pencils

The same ones that took away his voice

And just left this instrumental, like that

And he never lies (He never lies, he never lies, uh)

And he never lies (Uh, he never lies, he never lies, no)

And he never lies (He never lies)

Cause he never said anything at all

(Anything at all) He never lies

Uh, and you can’t tell me just who you are

You buyin them clothes just to hide those scars

You built that roof just to hide those stars

Now you can’t take it back to the start

And you can’t tell me just who you are

You buyin them clothes just to hide those scars

You built that roof just to hide those stars

Now you can’t take it back to the start

And he never lies (He never lies, he never lies, uh)

And he never lies (Uh, he never lies, he never lies, no)

And he never lies (He never lies)

Cause he never said anything at all

(Anything at all, anything at all)

Uhh, and you can’t tell me just who you are

You buy new clothes just to hide those scars

You built that roof just to hide those stars

Now you can’t take it back to the start

And you can’t tell me just who you are

You buy new clothes just to hide those scars

You built that roof just to hide those stars

Now you can’t take it back to the start

(Anything at all, anything at all)

Uh, and you can’t tell me just who you are

You buy new clothes just to hide those scars

You built that roof just to hide those stars

Now you can’t take it back to the start

And you can’t tell me just who you are

You buy new clothes just to hide those scars

You built that roof just to hide those stars

Now you can’t take it back to the start