作词 : Kendrick Lamar/Sounwave/Jack Antonoff/M Tech/Juju the Fool/Pharrell Williams/Chad Hugo/Tammy Lucas

作曲 : Kendrick Lamar/Sounwave/Jack Antonoff/M Tech/Juju the Fool/Pharrell Williams/Chad Hugo/Tammy Lucas

编曲 : Sounwave

制作人 : Sounwave/Jack Antonoff/M Tech/Juju the Fool

[Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar]

Load up the Pro Tools and press three

Studio filled with Jack-In-The-Box and Pepsis

Niggas watchin' Worldstar videos, not the ESPYs

Laughin' at B Pumper or stomach turnin', I get up and proceeded to write sum'

Ab-Soul in the corner mumblin' raps, fumblin' packs of black and milds

Crumblin' kush till he cracked a smile

His words legendary, wishin' I could rhyme like him

Studied his style to define my pen

That was back when the only goal was to get Jay Rock through the door

Warner Bros. Records, hope Naim Ali would let us know

Was excited just to go to them label meetings

Wasn't my record deal, but still, I couldn't believe it

Me and Rock inside the booth hibernatin'

It was simple math, if he made it, that mean I made it

Everything I had was for the team, I remained patient

Grindin' with my brothers, it was us against them, no one above us, bless our hearts

[Chorus: SWV & Coko]

Use your heart and not your eyes (Baby just relax and ride)

If you got time and I got time

Free your thoughts and watch them fly

Use your heart and not your eyes (Hmm-hmm-hmm)

[Verse 2: Kendrick Lamar]

My nigga Dave had a Champagne Acura

A bunch of instrumentals I freestyled in the passenger

That nigga wore several hats, a producer, a manager, director, and DJ

Our hotheads squabbling Bloods, Pirus, and Keeways

For this little thing of ours we called TDE

I watch 'em take some penitentiary chances, to say the least

Remember in the county building with MixedByAli

We tried to freak the system just to make a couple ends meet

That's my nigga for shit-show

He brought Q over, but Q didn't rap, but he learned from our inspo'

We split Louisiana chicken riverboat special, sleepin' next over to our consoles to be our refuge

He was homeless and I left home

Q said "Dot, you won't be slept on, you the nigga to bet on" (Use your-)

Top had given us the million, and the homie lived it

Hopin' we would see some millions, God bless our hearts

[Chorus: SWV & Coko]

Use your heart and not your eyes (Baby just relax and ride)

If you got time and I got time (Ayy, yeah)

Free your thoughts and watch them fly

Use your heart and not your eyes

[Verse 3: Kendrick Lamar]

Punch played Phil Jackson in my early practices

Strategies on how to be great amongst the averages

I picked his brain on what was ordain, highly collaborative

Rep pushed the label the same, amongst the savages

Moose kept my name in the function that he was runnin'

TEEZ kept the vultures away from me that was comin'

Sounwave let me borrow his clothes, for shows

As a hype man, to cook up in this room 'til the night ends

Time flies, I'm carryin' debates of a top five

Buryin' my opps in nylons

But I done a half-job communicatin' feelings of being stagnant

Life was gettin' bigger than just rappin'

The business what I was lackin'

Top used to record me back when it was poor me

And now we at the round table for what assures me

I guess my motivation was the yearnin' for independence

Poured everything I had left in the family business

Now it's about Kendrick, I wanna evolve, place my skillset as a black exec'

I jog my memory, knowing Black Hippy didn't work 'cause of me

Creatively, I moved on, with new concepts in reach

Top, remember all them sessions we would strategize?

To hit the streets, then come back record 3 records, ah

To tell the truth, it ****ed me up when D-Man passed

The motive was the condolences, but the pride crashed

I had to bypass old mythologies, I had

Put my heart on display like it was an iMac

To all my young niggas, let me be the demonstration

I would conduct differences with a healthy conversation

If that's your family, then handle it as such

Don't let the socials gas you up, or let emotions be your crutch

Pick up the phone and bust it up before the history is lost

Hand-to-handshake is good when you have a heart-to-heart

[Chorus: SWV & Coko]

Use your heart and not your eyes (Baby just relax your mind)

If you got time and I got time (Yeah, yeah)

Free your thoughts and watch them fly

Use your heart and not your eyes (Hmm-hmm-hmm-hmm)