Faithful to myself no matter what they said
Push me down, I refuse to fall
I really don't care if you're ten feet tall
Ten feet tall
I really don't care if you're ten feet tall
Dear whoever I was
You've become hard to recognize from here
You live and learn que sera, sera
Just know that it was super cool as long as it lasted
When we spat rhymes in the stairwell
So that the stench of piss was drowned out by our rap song
The same Summer where we killed our innocence
Our block has big shoes to fill out
Back when I wished I was a little bit taller
Wished that I had balls to hold a 45 and burst into the gas station
But Josef said 'Fuck it, you'll stay here, 'cause your parents would be heartbroken if you do it'
I'm a proud son of an Århusianer1 and an immigrant
From where 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' isn't just a song
Learn it right away, son, life is a struggle
And it would be a sin if you didn't take it seriously
Amen
Faithful to myself no matter what they said
Push me down, I refuse to fall
I really don't care if you're ten feet tall
Ten feet tall
I really don't care if you're ten feet tall
Here, we neither believe in Jante2 or in luck
Just that you have to do what it takes
Some got masked while others started dealing
And it was an amazing idea until we started doing them ourselves
So they call out 'Dopeman, dopeman, everybody smokes dope, man'3
Ibo got insane, there's no hope, man
As if the path ahead can be counted in kilograms
'Cause on that shit, you're no longer the same
I saw some the last time I came home
'Cause I never stopped calling it that
But beautiful smiles had turned junkie nasty
As mothers recited prayers for the fallen ones
I went for a stroll through the neighborhood to kill some time
When Sami's mother pulled me aside
She said 'I say it to my son all the time
So will you please let him know
That good people can't be kept down'
Faithful to myself no matter what they said
Push me down, I refuse to fall
I really don't care if you're ten feet tall
Ten feet tall
I really don't care if you're ten feet tall
Ten feet tall
I'm ten feet tall
1. Someone from Århus2. Referencing Janteloven (The Law of Jante)3. Referencing N.W.A's 'Dopeman'