• Artist: Lil Wayne
• Song Title: Shoot Me Down
• Album: Tha Carter III

[ intro ]
open up your hearts people
page one
chapter one
verse motherf***in one
yeah uh huh
I'm drinkin hot tea b****
feel me..

yeah
now if you let me, you won't regret me
s*** if you let me, you won't forget me
if you don't remember and if you don't
then ponder
hold up pow pow theres a reminder
I ain't kinda hot, I'm sona
I sweat money and the bank is my
shower
haha and that pistol is my towel
so stop sweatin me coward and I
would die for hours ride for hours
supplied flowers this is history
in the making now shut the f*** up
and let me make it

[ chorus ]
please don't shoot me down
cause i'm flying
I'm flying
I'm higher
Please don't shoot me down
cause i'm flying i'm higher..

I spit alcatraz bars I know
and D boys is the only alphabet
boys I know got a 380 on my waist
and rambo at home no more bandana
on my dome bandana on my right pocket
b**** i'm grown
f*** what you on
now what me stand on the world
as I sit on the throne
now if I jump imma fly
and look into the equal's eye
and see I am lookin like you why?
b**** see it gets me how nothin
gets me or get to me and if you
shootin for the stars, then just
shoot me but you bullets don't
reach mars pause. clause.
because ima a beast ima dog
i'll get ya
my picture should be in the
dictionary next to the definition
of definition because repition is
the father of learning and son I know
your barrel burning but..

[ chorus ]
please don't shoot me down
cause i'm flying
I'm flying
I'm higher
Please don't shoot me down
cause i'm flying
i'm higher..

ay talk to my daddy
pop I did it to him!
I'm a bastard, and imma do it
again like n**** backwards
these n****s backwards but they
behind us now watch me get high
like dimes up naw D brung the
drums back now watch me hit em
where they lungs sat like dat
i get respect cause if
i dont ima take it
i see your boys hatin
and i see your girls naked
drum sound like a naked gun
switch clips with my thumb
then i pop another clip in
and aim at his vision
cause wayne is his vison cause
wayne is the mission
im aimin at a mirror

[ guitar break with vocals ]

please don't shoot me down
cause I'm flying
I'm flying..
I'm higher..