Cranes In The Sky - Intellectual

[Verse 1: Common]

She seen pain in my eye

Men and women at work, cranes in the sky

We gon' keep building for our children's children

Doctors keep pilling, love is a drug then drugs can't heal 'em

But listen to Lauryn for the healing, peeling back layers

Pops used to hoop, I'm from a bloodline of players

Love and sunshine like Roy Ayers

Put your mind on the phone, I ain't coming back home

I felt the death of what it is to be alone

Everlasting love, money can't buy

Can't hide from the truth even when I pop the lock

Can't work it away, can't drink it away

Can't laugh it away, can't think it away

That pain come up on you like a thief in the day

Searching for the sun, I found my Issa Rae

Insecurity cold, imperial robes

I used to wear my heart open like Ethereal Rose

Now I'm carrying loads of baggage I don't claim

If she start tripping I'm hopping on the plane

Cranes in the sky, I know how the metal sound

I never settled in life so it's hard to settle down

Staying on my square trying not to get around

Hold my lady hostile, she could rebel down

Don't touch my hair, I'm baldheaded

Kept my love locked down like it was all dreaded

Wishing for wings again so I could spread it

But now it's in a plastic cup of false beverage

[Verse 2: Solange]

I tried to drink it away

I tried to put one in the air

I tried to dance it away

I tried to change it with my hair

[Verse 3: Solange]

I ran my credit card bill up

Thought a new dress would make it better

I tried to work it away

But that just made me even sadder

[Verse 4: Solange]

I tried to keep myself busy

I ran around in circles

Think I made myself dizzy

I slept it away, I sexed it away

I read it away

Away

[Refrain 1: Solange]

Away, away, away, away, away

[Hook 1: Solange]

Well it's like cranes in the sky

Sometimes I don't wanna feel those metal clouds

Yeah, it's like cranes in the sky

Sometimes I don't wanna feel those metal clouds

[Verse 5: Solange]

I tried to run it away

Thought then my head be feeling clearer

I traveled 70 states

Thought moving round make me feel better

[Verse 6: Solange]

I tried to let go my lover

Thought if I was alone then maybe I could recover

To write it away or cry it away

Don't you cry baby

Away

[Refrain 1: Solange]

Away, away, away, away, away

[Hook 2: Solange]

But it's like cranes in the sky

Sometimes I don't wanna feel those metal clouds

Yeah, it's like cranes in the sky

Sometimes I don't wanna feel those metal...

[Refrain 2: Solange]

Away, away, away, away, away