FRIENDS - Intellectual

[Chorus 1: Beyoncé]

My friends, real friends

Better than your friends

That's how we keep

Poppin' out that Benz, yeah

No foes, real friends

We ain't even got to pretend, yeah

Get bands, get bands

Spend it all on my friends, yeah

[Refrain: Beyoncé]

Gon' pull me up, pull me up, pull me up (Pull me up, pull me up, pull me up)

And never let me down (They never let me down)

Gon' pull me up, pull me up, pull me up (Pull me up, pull me up, pull me up)

And never let me drown (Never let me drown)

Gon' pull me up, pull me up, pull me up

And never let me drown (Never let me drown)

Gon' pull me up, pull me up, pull me up (Pull me up, pull me up, pull me up)

I'll never hit the ground (Never let me drown, never let me drown)

[Chorus 2: Beyoncé]

My friends, real friends

Better than your friends, yeah

That's how we keep

Popping out that Benz, yeah

Faux friends, real friends

Better than your friends, yeah

Ask them, ask them

They know all my business

[Verse 1: Beyoncé & JAY-Z]

I don't know what I would do

Without all of my crew, yeah

I ain't makin' no room, yeah

I ain't makin' no new friends

I don't make no moves, yeah

Without tellin' my crew, yeah

That just how we do, yeah

That's just how we do, oh

Goddammit it, I love my life (I love it)

Styrofoam cups, no ice (Uh-huh)

Party 'fore we go inside

Never let them out my sight (Ooh)

They're right by my side (Woo)

Them my ride-or-dies (Ride)

My friends are goals

Your friends are foes

We fly, why cry?

Our souls exposed, yeah

We smoke, we laugh

Your stress, my stress (Yeah, yeah)

Closer than kin (Yeah-yeah)

I'm blessed, you blessed (Yeah, uh, blessed)

[Verse 2: JAY-Z]

Ten toes, ten toes

We was out in that road, uh

Lookin' for love in wrong places

We proposed to a stove, yeah

Share jewels, share clothes

That's how deep this shit goes, yeah

Every week, y'all got bros, yeah

All of y'all are fake close

Y'all switchin' sides like NBA teams

Just after halftime

I'm pullin' up on my dog, make sure he okay

I don't even have time

Then copped me a Porsche with butterscotch seats

This 'fore they had mils

Live better than rappers and they don't even have bills

It's that real

Bought Emory a BM as soon as he came home

We hopped on a plane

Headed straight to the Bay, that's how we turn the game on

It's game on

Ty mama died, I was there

My nephew died, he was there

He in my house more than I be there

More than Bey there

Ty Ty there, E there

Breezy there, Juan there

High here, Chaka there

Law there, they all here, oh yeah

Dez there, Kawanna here

Shit feel like Nirvana here

Crib like the Soho House

I might stay in and grow out my hair

Tight circle, no squares

I'm geometrically opposed to you

Y'all like to try angles

Y'all like to troll, do you?

Y'all talk around hoes, do you?

Y'all don't follow codes, do you?

We know everything you say from niggas close to you

You emotional

When I say, "Free the dogs," I free 'em

That's how Meek got his freedom

Y'all put niggas on a t-shirt

It hurts you ain't never meet 'em

You got niggas in the feds

You ain't even tryna feed 'em

I'm tryna free the world

That's how deep I'm in

I ain't goin' to nobody nothin'

If me and my wife beefin'

I don't care if the house on fire

I'm dyin', nigga, I ain't leavin'

Ty-Ty take care of my kids

After he done grievin'

If y'all don't understand that

We ain't meant to be friends

[Refrain: Beyoncé]

Gon' pull me up, pull me up, pull me up (Pull me up, pull me up, pull me up)

And never let me down (They never let me down)

Gon' pull me up, pull me up, pull me up (Pull me up, pull me up, pull me up)

And never let me drown (Never let me drown)

Gon' pull me up, pull me up, pull me up (Pull me up, pull me up, pull me up)

And never let me drown (Never let me drown)

Gon' pull me up, pull me up, pull me up (Pull me up, pull me up, pull me up)

I'll never hit the ground (Never let me drown, never let me drown)

[Verse 3: Beyoncé]

They pray, pray for me

See better things for me

Want better days for me, unexceptionally

They pray, pray for me

Whenever I'm in need

They in the backseat with the aux bumpin' B, ayy

Uh, ain't no pride involved

Ain't no pride involved

In my heart, heart, heart

You know 4-4-4

That's my dog, dog, dog

See your dogs, dogs, dogs

Point 'em out, out, out

What would I be without my friends?

(What would I be without my friends?)

I ain't got no understanding

(I ain't got no understanding)

'Bout them, you might just catch these hands

We fall out and we make amends

Yeah, yeah, my friends

[Chorus 4: Beyoncé]

Your friends are foes

My friends are goals

Closer than kin

Our souls exposed, yeah

Your friends are frauds

All they want is applause, yeah

And my friends real friends

Closer than kin

[Outro: Beyoncé]

Them pull me up, pull me up, pull me up

Them never let me drown

Them pull me up, pull me up, pull me up

Them never let me down

Them pull me up, pull me up, pull me up

Them never let me down

Them pull me up, pull me up, pull me up