Learned Friend

Intro

Build

Mm

Mm-hmm

Yeah

Chorus

My learned friend don't read no books

He read the room and he read the crooks

Standing tall in a crooked town

Crown never tippin when the pressure come down

My learned friend don't read no books

He read the room and he read the crooks

They can doubt him now

He gon keep it moving anyhow

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh

Yeah

Verse 1

Textbooks never taught me patience

I learned it watching grown men break

Every promise made in daylight

Got settled after dark for goodness sake

My teacher was a cold December

My diploma was a scar

I ain't graduate from no campus

But I run this whole boulevard

Pre-Chorus

They said sit down

I stood up

They said slow down

I sped up

Chorus

My learned friend don't read no books

He read the room and he read the crooks

Standing tall in a crooked town

Crown never tippin when the pressure come down

My learned friend don't read no books

He read the room and he read the crooks

They can doubt him now

He gon keep it moving anyhow

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh

Yeah

Verse 2

Salute me salute me

Whole block know the name

I built this from nothing

Now the trumpets play my fame

Polished shoes and a sharper mind

Brass horns blaring when I step outside

Hungry days I remember those

Now the table set and the plates collide

Scholars with the suits can't match my wit

I outthink I outwork I outlast every bit

Pre-Chorus

They said sit down

I stood up

They said slow down

I sped up

Chorus

My learned friend don't read no books

He read the room and he read the crooks

Standing tall in a crooked town

Crown never tippin when the pressure come down

My learned friend don't read no books

He read the room and he read the crooks

They can doubt him now

He gon keep it moving anyhow

Bridge

Wisdom ain't a degree

Wisdom is a survival

Wisdom is knowing when to speak

And knowing when to stay silent

I earned every stripe

I earned every mile

Learned from every friend

Whoever smiled or went hostile

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh

Oh-oh-oh

Yeah

Chorus

My learned friend don't read no books

He read the room and he read the crooks

Standing tall in a crooked town

Crown never tippin when the pressure come down

My learned friend don't read no books

He read the room and he read the crooks

They can doubt him now

He gon keep it moving anyhow

Outro

Instrumental