Light Blue

"**Light Blue**" is a song by Lupe Fiasco, released on March 7, 2013, with production handled by Simon Sayz. The rapper stated in the caption, "DONT MIND ME….JUST STAYING IN SHAPE…JUST PRACTICE…LIKE A PIANO PLAYER OR A GYMNAST. Not on T&Y…So pls dont Say It Is on your blog. Thanx."

*DJBooth* wrote of the track, "finds Lupe doing precisely what he does best: delivering complex, high-energy rhymes over futuristic production."

## Lyrics

**Lyrics**
[Intro]

Since a shorty I was 40 and my 40's is like 80's

So by the time I die, I'm gon' be a baby

Yeah… check

Since a shorty I been 40 and my 40's is like 80's

So by the time I die, I'm gon' be a baby

[Hook]

And so my youth sound just like lightning coming down

See my youth sound just like lightning coming down

And my youth sound just like lightning coming down

And my youth sound just like lightning coming down

[Verse 1]

From my view here, my hue veers

To a blue smear on a white wall, what you might call my blue period

I'm two-tiered, but no tats, and I don't know what you call that

Goes on and on like two mirrors

And if you see us then you read properly then your heart knows

And your head copies

My two tears, ain't no dead bodies

They my entendres and I'm hungry

So my piece of the pie better be as big as Mahatma Gandhi's

Even my filler kills, my 13th just might be a zombie

So thrilling at bringing all that filling back

So if you died lately, put your trust in the cry baby

Free man don't drive Daisy, but that light I shed so hydrate

[Hook]

And so my youth sound just like lightning coming down

See my youth sound just like lightning coming down

And my youth sound just like lightning coming down

And my youth sound just like lightning coming down

[Verse 2]

In my hot rod with my Vans on and my hair (air)-borne

And my hair long and my circle tight and my square strong

I'm in great shape with no shake-weights

Or no weight shakes and tell your mama this cake's great

Cake cake cake cake cake cake cake

And not Rihanna, my cake's paper, I rage in Harlem

I paper bake

And I take it back, cashes, asses, autograph it

Before I leave like Cassius Clay

In that big ole car, that bass shake that little bars

So my bass tape and that Drake Go, if ya wanna wake-o then Jaco's!

Where the cake go? I blew all that for this great flow

Wish a n\*\*\*a would step on this Pergo that I paid for

[Hook]

And so my youth sound just like lightning coming down

See my youth sound just like lightning coming down

And my youth sound just like lightning coming down

And my youth sound just like lightning coming down

[Verse 3]

Red lights, obey my headlights

That head red like peg, or Santa's sled lights

That mean I heard what she said 'fo she said what she said outta head

It's like I got a head mic'd

Like a Fed might, but I ain't fed like

Been a hands on homie, my head right

Dreadlocks, but no Red Stripe and that both ours like red bike

And the Feds know what I roll like

In a dead man, with some low-lifes

Me stopped, then your lights

I got no lights 'til the stop-sign

I got no rights like Nascar

Or a black man in the deep south

During Jim Crow with the police

That's 99 problems with a ho twice

From no life to Frankenstein, got it stitched up I'm so nice

[Hook]

And so my youth sound just like lightning coming down

See my youth sound just like lightning coming down

And my youth sound just like lightning coming down

And my youth sound just like lightning coming down

## References

1. ↑ Lilah, Rose (March 7, 2023). "Light Blue". *HotNewHipHop*.
2. ↑ Spadine, Richard (March 7, 2013). "Lupe Fiasco - Light Blue". *DJBooth*.