i (Alternate Version)

By Kendrick Lamar

Released on November 15, 2014

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[Intro: Kendrick Lamar & Choir]

We're livin' in a gold bar (Runnin' to the right law)

Duckin' in the trap (Duckin' in the trap)

Livin' in a group (Livin' in a group)

Watchin' TV (Watchin' TV)

Dedicated to the homies in the pen, hit me


[Verse 1: Kendrick Lamar]

(Hey, hey, hey)

Uh, this is a word premiere, this is a world premiere

(Hey, hey)

Uh, I done been through a whole lot

Trial, tribulation, but I know God

The Devil want to put me in a bow-tie

Pray that the holy water don't go dry, yeah, yeah

As I look around me

So many motherfucker want to down me

But an amigo never drowned me

In front of a dirty double-mirror they found me


[Hook: Kendrick Lamar]

And I love myself

Ho, when you're lookin' at me, uh, I tell me, "What do you see?"

I love myself

Ah, I put a bullet in the back of the back of the head of the police

I love myself

Uh, illuminated by the hand of God, boy, it ain't that high

I love myself

Uh, one day at a time sun gon' shine


[Verse 2: Kendrick Lamar]

Everybody lookin' at you crazy (Crazy)

What you gon' do? (What you gon' do?)

Lift up your head and keep movin'? (Keep movin'?)

Or let the paranoia haunt you (Haunt you)

Peace to fashion police, I wear my heart

On my sleeve, let the runway start

You know the miserable do love company

What do you want from me and my scars?

Everybody lack confident

Everybody lack confident

How many time my potential was anonymous?

How many time the city makin' me promises?

So I promise this, huh


[Hook: Kendrick Lamar]

I love myself

When you're lookin' at me, I tell me, "What do you see?"

I love myself

Ah, I put a bullet in the back of the back of the head of the police

I love myself

Uh, illuminated hands of God, boy, don't seem shy

I love myself

One day at a time sun gon' shine


[Verse 3: Kendrick Lamar]

They want to say it's a war outside, bomb in the street

Gun in the hood, mob of police

Rock on the corner with a line for the fiend

And a bottle full of lean and a model on a scheme

(These days of frustration keep y'all on tuck and rotation)

Aw, man, I duck these cold faces, post a fee-fi-fo-fum basis

Uh, dreams of reality's peace

Blow steam in the face of the beast

Sky can fall down, the wind can cry now

Strong in me, I still smile


[Hook: Kendrick Lamar]

I love myself

Uh, when you're lookin' at me, uh, I tell me, "What do you see?"

I love myself

Ah, I put a bullet in the back of the back of the head of the police

I love myself

Uh, illuminated by the hand of God, boy, don't be shy

I love myself

One day at a time sun gon' shine

Everybody, hit me


[Bridge: Kendrick Lamar]

Walk my bare feet (Walk my bare feet)

Down, down valley deep (Down, down valley deep)

Fee-fi-fo-fum (Fee-fi-fo-fum)

My heart undone (My heart undone)


[Interlude: Kendrick Lamar]

Aw, man, ay, check this out

It's a real Compton thing goin' on right now

You feel what I'm talkin' 'bout? You dig that?

Sometime I just feel a little bit b-beside myself

You know what I'm talkin' 'bout?

This here's the return of Enoch

And we gon' do it to y'all like this

Here we go, one, two, three, hit me


[Hook: Kendrick Lamar]

I love myself

The world is a ghetto with big guns and picket signs

I love myself

But it can do what it want whenever it want and I don't mind

I love myself

He said I got to get up, life is more than suicide

I love myself

One day at a time, the sun gon' shine


[Verse 4: Kendrick Lamar]

I went to war last night with an automatic weapon

Don't nobody call a medic

I'm a do it 'til I get it right, war last night

I've been dealin' with depression

Duckin' every other blessin', I can never see the message

I could, I could never take the lead, never bob and weave

Negative is lettin' them annihilate me

Evident I'm movin' at a meteor speed

Finna run into a buildin' there

Money in the ceilin', lay my body in the street

Pass me to the buildin' of the holy unseen

Pass me to the feelin' of the holy unseen

Seen enough, make a everybody scream, "I love myself"


[Bridge: Kendrick Lamar]

I lost my head

I must've misread what the good book said

Oh, woes be me, it's a jungle inside

Give myself again 'til the well runs dry


[Interlude: Kendrick Lamar]

YG, chicken wings, I love myself

I love myself, I love myself

Aw, man, ay, ay, homie

I told you it's straight up a Compton thing

You dig what I'm talkin' about?

And this here's dedicated to the homies

Y'all feel what I'm sayin'?

Sometimes I just get besides myself

The return of the Enoch is back

You hear what I'm talkin' 'bout?


[Verse 5: Kendrick Lamar]

Uh, I've been lookin' for you my whole life

Appetite for the feelin' I can barely describe

Where you reside?

In a woman, is it in money or mankind?

Something's got me losin' my mind

Where you at? From the front to the back

I'm lookin' for you, I react only when you react

I thought I found you back in the ghetto

When I was seventeen with the dirtiest pistol

Maybe you're in a dollar bill, maybe you're not real

Maybe only the wealthy get to know how you feel

Maybe I'm paranoid, ha, maybe I don't need you anyway

Don't lie to me, I'm suicidal any day

I could be your advocate

I could speak for you if you tell me what the matter is

I could preach for you with the mighty tongue

I'm the one, how can I overcome

Negative energy, more like infinity, and survive?


[Outro: Crowd]

*Cheering*