White Teeth Teens (Remix) Lyrics

[Verse 1: James the Keeper]
I spent a few years in the classroom
Tryna figure how to get up out the classroom
Tryna figure how to live when the time go
Tryna figure how to live when my mind go
Spent a few years in the classroom
Knapsack packed lunch in the bathroom
Hash tag mad fun
I would tell em' when they asked
Bout math class
I ain't telling that truth
Got some brand new Jordans
For the street cred
I ain't got no money
But my feet fresh
I ain't got no job
But my pops does
Gave me money for that
Bully during recess
White teeth teens
Upper echelons
Proletarians who waiting
On the Renaissance

Before the rap thing
I was just an immigrant
Said I was different
Till they found out
Who the villain was
[Verse 2: Lorde]
If you want, we'll help tonight to split its seams
Give the bruises out like gifts
You'll get the picture of your dreams
I won't be smiling but the notes from my admirers
Fill my dashboard just the same

[Hook]
We got the glow in our mouths
White teeth teens are out
White teeth teens are up for it


[Verse 3: James the Keeper]
They gave me juice that I never drank
Teacher taught me how to read a book and never think
"Keep studying, your future's on the line"
I ain't answering calls unless Future on the line
She ain't dropping them drawers less Future on the line
...guess I shouldn't treat her like a queen
Gave her Alex the Great
She wanted Alex McQueen

Now I'm talking to her best friend
Me and shawty hit it off, that's her ex friend
I even try to answer back when she texting
Things change, I'm ahead of the crew
The same crew that had you
Thinking they was better than you
Now we embellish in the etiquette
Of telling the truth
The former resident to president
Expelling the youth
New kids, tryna formulate
A medicine too
Old friends might be
Better than new
[Interlude]
And everything works out so good
I wear the robe like no one could


[Bridge]
I'll let you in on something big
I am not a white teeth teen
I tried to join but never did
The way they are, the way they seem is something else, it's in the blood
Their molars blinking like the lights
In the underpass where we all sit
And do nothing, and love it

[Interlude]

[Outro]
We got the glow in our mouths
White teeth teens are out
White teeth teens are out

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Remix of Lorde’s “White Teeth Teens”, off her album Pure Heroine.

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March 29, 2014
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