King of the Desert

[Intro] Yeah The Nile

Cairo

Egypt

[Verse 1] Nile running through my veins like a river of gold

Pharaoh in the mirror and my story never old

Built the pyramids with patience stacking stone on stone

Now I'm sitting on a throne I could call my own

Scribes writing every word that I spit into the sand

They don't understand the vision or the master plan

Anubis on my shoulder weighing everything I say

Judging every heart that ever tried to block my way

[Chorus] I'm the king of the desert I don't need a crown

Buried all my doubt beneath the ancient ground

I'm the king of the desert watch the sun go down

Legacy forever I ain't fading out

[Post-Chorus] Ra Ra Ra

Watch me rise

Ra Ra Ra

Watch me rise

[Verse 2] Cleopatra energy I move with quiet power

Every single minute turned into a golden hour

Hieroglyphics on the wall they spelling out my name

Centuries go by and they still gon' say the same

Nubian to Thebes I been running every mile

Osiris in my spirit I ain't broken in a while

Papyrus and a pen I write my future in the ink

Sphinx sitting patient while the whole world blinks

[Chorus] I'm the king of the desert I don't need a crown

Buried all my doubt beneath the ancient ground

I'm the king of the desert watch the sun go down

Legacy forever I ain't fading out

[Post-Chorus] Ra Ra Ra

Watch me rise

Ra Ra Ra

Watch me rise

[Bridge] They built tombs for the ones who believed in themselves

I built mine out of every book up on the shelves

Sandstorms couldn't bury what I carry in my chest

Egypt in my blood and I ain't never gonna rest

[Chorus] I'm the king of the desert I don't need a crown

Buried all my doubt beneath the ancient ground

I'm the king of the desert watch the sun go down

Legacy forever I ain't fading out

[Post-Chorus] Ra Ra Ra

Watch me rise

Ra Ra Ra

Watch me rise

[Verse 3] Linen wrapped around me like a contract with the gods

Natron on the body every sin I had to drop

Forty days in silence while the priests recite the prayers

Canopic jars beside me holding everything I carried

Weigh my heart against a feather let the scale decide

If the sins outweigh the good then I can't go inside

Ammit waiting patient by the doorway of the deep

But my soul was never heavy so my record keep

[Verse 4] Osiris on the throne of the Duat in the west

Anubis with the jackal head conducting every test

Thoth recording every syllable I said

Isis and Nephthys standing guard around my bed

Horus with the falcon eye watching from above

Sekhmet with the lion breath fury and the love

Ra sailing through the twelve hours of the night

Apep at the gate but my ka ready for the fight

[Bridge 2] Field of reeds in front of me the harvest never ends

Ma'at on the balance and she steady as the wind

Four sons of Horus guarding every single limb

Death ain't the ending it's the doorway I walk in

[Verse 5] Sarcophagus engraved with the story of my rise

Book of the Dead written out across my open eyes

Shabti figures waking up to work the land for me

Every spell a passport to a life beyond the sea

Weigh me in the hall and let the truth be what it be

If I'm light as a feather then the afterlife is free

Persian incense burning as the mourners say goodbye

But a king don't die he just moves to a different sky

[Chorus] I'm the king of the desert I don't need a crown

Buried all my doubt beneath the ancient ground

I'm the king of the desert watch the sun go down

Legacy forever I ain't fading out

[Post-Chorus] Ra Ra Ra

Watch me rise

Ra Ra Ra

Watch me rise

[Verse 6] Ka and ba reunited at the break of the dawn

Opening of the mouth so the spirit can be born

Westcar papyrus telling everything I did

Underneath the sand where the pharaohs always hid

Valley of the Kings and I'm resting in the rock

Centuries of silence but the memory don't stop

Gold upon the coffin and the mask upon my face

Judgment in the hall and I found my rightful place

[Outro] Osiris

Anubis

Isis

Horus

Ra Ra Ra

Watch me rise

Ra Ra Ra

Watch me rise

Eternal

(Eternal)

Eternal

(Eternal)

Egypt forever