Don't Look Down

## Song by Kanye West featuring Mos Def, Big Sean and Lupe Fiasco

"**Don't Look Down**" is a song by Kanye West, released as the 11th track from the mixtape *G.O.O.D. Fridays*; weekly free music in support of his fifth studio album *My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy* (2010). It features American rappers Mos Def, Big Sean, and Lupe Fiasco.

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Chorus: Mos Def]

Don't look down, it's an impossible view

Fly like an eagle, whatever you do

Don't look down, it's an impossible view

Spread your wings, aerial

[Verse 1: Lupe Fiasco]

Head to the sky, wings raised and

She's about to fly, and take her place in

Out there in the stars, when she leaves the ground

She'll see a broken heart, if she turns around

But ain't no going back, this is how it must be

He told her she'll be burned alive, she just told him, "Trust me"

If funerals are beautiful, this ugly

Knowing this, he told her, "You won't leave me if you love me"

And he knows that, because he knows her

Hard to hide his feelings, as it engulfs her

Now she's a bright blaze, light rays

A shooting out, a phoenix on fire burning up the nightscape

So let's hear it for our heroine

Applaud as her spirit just flies into the never-end

One closed chapter, it opens up another part

So this is more like, "The end, question mark"

[Chorus: Mos Def]

Don't look down, it's an impossible view

Fly like an eagle, whatever you do

Don't look down, it's an impossible view

Spread your wings, aerial

[Verse 2: Kanye West]

Don't let me hold you back, I only hold you back

We're on a dead-end street, this block has got a cul-de-sac

So fly baby, my baby so high

Sometimes it's so hard to say bye

We made it from the alley, straight up to the valley

We pulled up at the valet, we'll teach our daughter ballet

We'll raise us a Beyonce, maybe she'll be a Halle

You woulda been the best mom, I woulda been the best 'Ye

You see it all in my veins, like varicose

I know that's very gross, but we getting very close

To our end, though I kill most with a pen

Soon as this flow end, I'ma let Mos begin

[Chorus: Mos Def & Kanye West]

Don't look down, it's an impossible view

Fly like an eagle, whatever you do

Don't look down, it's an impossible view

Spread your wings, aerial

[Chorus: Kanye West & Big Sean]

Don't look down, it's an impossible view

Fly like an eagle, whatever you do

Don't look down, it's an impossible view

Spread your wings, aerial

Don't look down, it's an impossible view

Spread your wings, aerial

Don't look down, it's an impossible view

How could you do it? How could you do it?

[Verse 3: Big Sean]

Okay, now baby, here we go, we go, no baby, me go

You got my heart, baby, this what it beat for

I give it all, walk as far as my feet go

What you mean, "Me go?" Why can't it be, "We go"?

What happens when people turn to tears? (Huh?)

Dreams turn to memories and weeks turn to years, huh?

Been standing in the same spot for a couple of weeks

Give me my feelings back, wish love came with a couple receipts

Man, our vacation was coming next week

Girl, I swear you was a trip, let's make it a couples' retreat (Do it!)

How could my girl do this to me?

Woke up to a note saying, "The world did this to me"

Now I'm testing, one-two, reporting live from the rubble

Drinking all I can so I can turn to fire when I hug you

One, two, three, four, five models on the double

Give me head all at once, look like they lying in a huddle

But it's not even half the feeling

As hearing your, "Seans, you know I love you"

Shedding tears every day (I know you do)

And I'm tired of lying in these puddles

I ask "Why?" sometimes like a fucking vowel

Been hitting trees every day like a fucking owl

Trying to get high enough to cut the clouds

Of the Phoenix sun and Nash it out

I mean ash it out, so I could see you smile

I-I know you can see me now

[Chorus: Mos Def]

Don't look down, it's an impossible view

Fly like an eagle, whatever you do

Don't look down, it's an impossible view

Spread your wings, aerial

## References

1. ↑ "New! Kanye West ft. Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco & Big Sean - "Don't Look Down"". *Complex*. October 23, 2010.