Kanye West – No Church in the Wild Lyrics

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[Hook: Frank Ocean]
Human beings in a mob
What's a mob to a king? What's a king to a God?
What's a God to a non-believer who don't believe in anything?

Will he make it out alive? Alright, alright, no church in the wild

[Verse 1: Jay-Z]
Tears on the mausoleum floor
Blood stains the Colosseum doors

Lies on the lips of a priest
Thanksgiving disguised as a feast

Rolling in Rolls Royce Corniche
Only the doctors got this, I’m hiding from police

Cocaine seats, all white like I got the whole thing bleached
Drug dealer chic, I’m wondering if a thug’s prayers reach
Is Pious pious cause God loves pious?
Socrates asked whose bias do y'all seek?
All for Plato, screech
I’m out here balling, I know y'all hear my sneaks

Jesus was a carpenter, Yeezy he laid beats
Hova flow the Holy Ghost, get the hell up out your seats, preach


[Hook]

[Bridge: The-Dream]
I live by you, desire
I stand by you, walk through the fire

Your love is my scripture
Let me into your encryption


[Verse 2: Kanye West]
Coke on her black skin
Make a stripe like a zebra, I call that jungle fever

You will not control the threesome
Just roll the weed up until I get me some

We formed a new religion
No sins as long as there’s permission
And deception is the only felony
So never fuck nobody without telling me

Sunglasses and Advil, last night was mad real
Sun coming up, 5 a.m., I wonder if they got cabs still?

Thinking 'bout the girl in all leopard
Who was rubbing the wood like Kiki Shepherd

Two tattoos one read "No Apologies"
The other said "Love is Cursed by Monogamy"

It’s something that the pastor don’t preach
It’s something that a teacher can’t teach

When we die the money we can’t keep
But we probably spend it all cause the pain ain’t cheap, preach


[Hook]

Play No Church in the Wild

One of the most talked-about tracks on Watch the Throne, “No Church in the Wild” is an existential renunciation of traditional, organized religious worship

Reminiscent of Cassius in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”

The fault, dear Brutus
Is not in our stars
But in ourselves
That we are underlings

The song samples the opening guitar riff of “K Scope” (Phil Manzanera), the drums from “Sunshine Help Me” (Spooky Tooth) and vocals from “Don’t Tell a Lie About Me and I Won’t Tell the Truth About You” (James Brown), a song which was also sampled for “Gotta Have It”

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