Like A Star - J. Cole

[00:00.00]"Like A Star"
[00:01.11]Baby girl, roll down the window
[00:02.97]I love to see your hair float when the wind blow
[00:05.19]Even if the money been slow
[00:08.01]'Ey to you it don't matter cause you still gon' ride with me
[00:11.32]You're still gon' ride with me
[00:14.54]I say you're still gon' ride with me
[00:17.15]I know you're still gon' ride with me, hey
[00:20.73]Welcome to the life of a, nice brother
[00:24.33]Light skind-ed, black father, white mother
[00:26.91]Tried to be a player, found out I'm a slight lover
[00:29.57]Come from Carolina, I'm fly, I'm a Wright Brother
[00:32.17]Went away to school looking for the right lover
[00:34.80]You know, someone that you could cut and never worry 'bout a rubber
[00:37.47]She had a man, I be damned, think I might love her
[00:40.24]Thought about her ass for the whole damn Summer
[00:42.95]Man I even memorized her whole damn number
[00:45.62]This is my semester dog, I'm coming to arrest her
[00:48.29]Y'all you know, handcuff her, her ex man, **** him
[00:50.86]Oh nah don't be appalled man, that ***** was a dog
[00:53.67]So it's me now, and she be everywhere I be now
[00:56.49]I wonder, should I tell her what her fella wanna be now?
[00:59.06]The dreams I been dreaming and them things I wanna see now
[01:01.31]Do that make you wanna leave or would you still hold me down?
[01:04.42]Baby girl, roll down the window
[01:06.38]I love to see your hair float when the wind blow
[01:09.15]Even if the money been slow
[01:11.40]'Ey to you it don't matter cause you still gon' ride with me
[01:16.08]You're still gon' ride with me
[01:18.36]I say you're still gon' ride with me
[01:20.91]I know you're still gon' ride with me, hey(Just like a star)
[01:26.45]Cause baby girl you shine (just like a star)
[01:28.67]And we gon' do it big (just like a star)
[01:31.24]And maybe get a crib (just like a star)
[01:33.94]'Ey maybe we can live (just like a star)
[01:36.21]Hey, for you I always had an admiration
[01:38.51]We lost touch but you never left my imagination
[01:40.83]Congratulations on your graduation
[01:42.89]Oh now it's time to hit the real world, filled with all them résumés and applications
[01:46.16]Man, but ain't nobody calling you back
[01:48.71]You say it's cause you a woman and even more cause you black, imagine that
[01:52.98]The weight of everything on your plate
[01:54.64]You got the world on your back baby, if you can relate, man I feel for you
[01:58.69]'Ey has this world got too real for you?
[02:00.50]Your old friends say you changed but I still know you
[02:03.16]You that same old girl I used to take home from school
[02:05.91]Tryna look cool, forgot I had the brake on, damn
[02:08.89]Time passed and you done grew up
[02:10.85]And yeah, it's just like I told you baby look I done blew up
[02:13.47]But the money and this little bit of fame ain't changed me
[02:16.02]So holla when you need me, I bet you you'll get the same me
[02:18.75]Baby girl, roll down the window
[02:21.10]I love to see your hair float when the wind blow
[02:23.76]Even if the money been slow
[02:26.37]'Ey to you it don't matter cause you still gon' ride with me
[02:29.70]You're still gon' ride with me
[02:32.66]I say you're still gon' ride with me
[02:35.42]I know you're still gon' ride with me, hey(Just like a star)
[02:41.15]Cause baby girl you shine (just like a star)
[02:43.41]And we gon' do it big (just like a star)
[02:45.87]And maybe get a crib (just like a star)
[02:48.85]'Ey maybe we can live (just like a star)
[02:50.61]Just like a star that's in my sky
[02:52.82]Just like an angel off my page
[02:55.09]You have appeard to my life
[02:58.06]It feels like we never be the same
[03:00.99]Damn and it's been, way too long
[03:03.31]Can't find the words to write this song
[03:06.02]Hey, uh, still I wonder why
[03:13.35]But it ain't what I do
[03:19.70]Hey, we do it all the time
[03:23.67]Goin' out my mind
[03:26.70]Man, damn
[03:31.47]Baby girl, roll down the window
[03:35.75]I love to see your hair float when the wind blow
[03:38.19]Even if the money been slow
[03:40.91]'Ey to you it don't matter cause you still gon' ride with me
[03:44.24]You're still gon' ride with me
[03:47.24]I say you're still gon' ride with me
[03:49.96]I know you're still gon' ride with me, hey Just like a star
[03:55.84]Just like a star
[03:59.26]Just like a star
[04:01.72]Just like a star