One Man Can Change the World (feat. Kanye West & John Legend)

They used to tell me

Used to tell me

I hope you learn to make it on your own

And if you love yourself, just know you'll never be alone

I hope that you get everything you want and that you chose

I hope that it's the realest thing that you ever know

Hope you get the pretty girls that's pretty and everything

Million-dollar cribs, havin' million-dollar dreams

And when you get it all, just remember one thing, remember one thing

That one man could change the world

That one man could change the world

All I, all I wanted was a hundred million dollars and a bad chick

Imagined it so much some nights it felt like that I had it

Back on the mattress, starin' at the ceilin'

Try and connect the dots but it's hard makin' those attachments

I'm talkin' dreamin' so hard some nights it felt like draft day, you know

My, my step-brother used to flip them bags

Outside the crib like it was trash day

No Kim K but he bagged yay-yay

But when you gettin' fast money, slow down, don't crash

With all the drive in the world, swear you still need gas

Look, think about it, close your eyes, dream about it

Tell your team about it, go make million-dollar schemes about it

Success is on the way, I feel it in the distance

Used to look up at the stars and be like, ain't too much that's different

I be shinin', they be shinin', get your one shot, don't you miss it

What you know 'bout wakin' up every day like you on a mission?

And I hope you learn to make it on your own

And if you love yourself, just know you'll never be alone

I hope that you get everything you want and that you chose

I hopin' that's the realest thing that you ever know

Hope you get the pretty girls that's pretty and everything

Million-dollar cribs havin' million-dollar dreams

And when you get it all, just remember one thing, remember one thing

One man could change the world

One man could change the world

My grandma told me if you write your name in stone

You'll never get the White-Out

I grinded out that black hole then performed up at the White House

Standin' next to Jim Carrey, we traded stories then laughed

I said you not the only one I know got rich wearin' masks

Where I'm from I swear they broke, they need way more than the cash

We need more than what you have and then we need more than that

But how I'm s'posed to say I'm tired

If that girl from West Virginia came up in conditions that I couldn't survive?

Went to war, came back alive, on top of that

Became a female black captain when

Bein' black, you had to extra-extra try

Way before James Brown made us proud, she bought a crib

On the same street as Marvin Gaye, right there on Outer Drive

And she taught me how to drive

And she raised the kids, then the kids' kids, and she did it right

Taught me how to love, taught me not to cry

When I die, I hope you teach me how to fly

All my life you been the angel in disguise, sayin'

I hope you learn to make it on your own

And if you love yourself, just know you'll never be alone

I hope that you get everything you want and that you chose

I hope that it's the realest thing that you ever know

Hope to get the pretty girls that's pretty and everything

Million dollar cribs havin' million dollar dreams

When you get it all, just remember one thing, remember one thing

That one man can change the world

That one man can change the world

Thank you for callin' me and thinkin' about me

It's all good, I love you, Grandma

Bye