If I Could Draw

By XV

On 40 Days & 40 Nights

Released on November 1, 2008

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[Intro] [XV Talking]:

Haha. I played this for Seven, he was like, "Man, that sounds like some Sesame Street reading hour shit." And I was like, "Yeah...it kinda does."

[Verse One]:

If God said this

"I'ma take away your greatest gift."

What would you ask to exchange it with?

It's easy for me cause if he took away the rapping

I would like to draw, all that I imagine

I wish that I could just pick up a pencil and draw

But I can't

Fuck, I can barely stencil at all

I would graffiti X to the Vizzy all over walls

Put my gamer tag on trains that pass by city hall

I would draw the colors I see when I sing my favorite song

By my favorite artist

Man, I would be your favorite artist if I drew

If I knew

How to make this green turn to blue

Or how to make this scene turn into

The dreams that I see when I think of a view

Of a room with a grey gradient hue

Or maybe I could do

Comic books with heroes that look like you

Squares that look like me

Damn that would be cool

Wouldn't it?

[Hook]:

I'd probably put the mic down

If I could draw

This song would have a painting right now

If I could draw

Sometimes I wish that I could find out

If I could draw

And then I wouldn't have to rhyme 'bout

If I could draw

I'd probably put the mic down

If I could draw

This song would have a painting right now

If I could draw

Sometimes I wish that I could find out

If I could draw

And then I wouldn't have to rhyme 'bout

If I could draw

[Verse Two]:

If I could draw man, I'd probably be romantic

Have girls posing while I draw 'em like Titanic

Design my own city at the bottom of thee Atlantic

That's big Vizzy

Hahaha

I played a lot of SimCity

I would draw the next Sin City

I would draw fat versions of all my school crushes that just dissed me

I would draw an ugly girl pretty

To show her what I see

Inside, she'd find it so witty

Hip hop ain't died, but it's like it's so empty

And that's why I think the sky sent me

I would draw a perfect world and a perfect girl that just digs me

If that was the one gift God gives me

But He didn't

I was made for spitting these lyrics while I'm still living

I'm XV but Donovan is who I'm always given

So I can stay spitting this rhyme and just wishing

Or I can fill these lines up in my composition

To show my vision

Damn

[Hook]:

I'd probably put the mic down

If I could draw

This song would have a painting right now

If I could draw

Sometimes I wish that I could find out

If I could draw

And then I wouldn't have to rhyme 'bout

If I could draw

I'd probably put the mic down

If I could draw

This song would have a painting right now

If I could draw

Sometimes I wish that I could find out

If I could draw

And then I wouldn't have to rhyme 'bout

If I could draw