California

[Intro]
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[Chorus]
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Yeah, I'm faded (Ayy), fake faces
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I erase 'em, California

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That fragrance, mad payments
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Fake places, California
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I don't wanna be the one that's left behind
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I love the way you lie
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Tryna get my money bag straight this time
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The hills is goin' decide (Yeah)

[Verse 1]
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LA, Westside, mama scared most of the time
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Lookin' behind, what's this so called life

Shawty run my other phone, yeah
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Fake faces, gotta cut 'em off, yeah
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Fake faces, they don't problem solve, yeah
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My faith is from the cameras, yeah
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Flash-flash, I'ma take the pictures for my fam', damn
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Show 'em I've made it, flashbacks
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To the pictures from way back
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The kids were like "Who's that? Who's that?"

Now I do Hollywood, yeah
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Copies everywhere like a walkie talkie
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I'ma run the lobby, speak to nobody

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San Gabriel Valley, I might crash your party, like

[Chorus]
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 Yeah, you made it, you've been anxious
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But you made it, California
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Conversations 'til the sunrise
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When you stop by, California 
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I don't wanna be the one that's left behind
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I love the way you lie
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I don't wanna be the one to lose my mind
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I know you know

[Verse 2]
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Somebody put some brakes on me
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yea I really need rest on me
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Pops callin' up every couple days
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I'm smilin' so he could think I'm straight
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Why can't I tell the truth?
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Playin' J. Cole back then, with a clear end goal
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Like it all made sense, I needed myself
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And nobody else, okay, let's go, uh
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From how it looks, man, it's hard to complain
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Man, I just been prayin' that when I get older
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That I got some smile in me that can remain
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My money is long but I got some new issues
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That feel like as long as they government names
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Man, all I could wish is the mask that I wear

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And the face that's below it is lookin' the same, like
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(Oh, oh, oh)
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You been in this fight, I can see it in your eyes, like
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(Oh, oh, oh)
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I made up my mind, I don't wanna waste no time

[Verse 3]
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 Money makin', while we're breakin'
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It's amazin', California
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Celebrate it or berate it
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It's been fated, California
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Oh, Maria, the hills are swarmin'
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With dead ends and the bots performin'
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 Don't mistake it, you can break big
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'Til you get sick, hm

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 Shut the **** up, don't wake another neighbor

I don't know you and I don't want to later (Later)
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 Praying to God I never run out of his favor
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 But we don't make the textbooks on our best behavior, do we?
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I'm the antihero in my own damn movie (Movie)
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All my exes write songs that I'm based on, loosely
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Take after my ma, I can be choosy
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I can be choosy, oh....
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And when the sky looks like a painting
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 That's when you look down........

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california.....

Money makin', while we're breakin'
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california.....

(But you made it, California)
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california.....

{Yeah, I'm faded, fake faces}
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california.....

(But you made it, California)