joan of arc

Ryan Leslie

God bless each hater for wishing that I would see defeat
God bless each fan raising hands at the meet & greet
God bless Versace who got me under this gold chain
So plain when you watch me you see my soul s pain
Still I rise - I carry the torch
See that fever in my eyes - I m ready to scorch
And in this moment, I hope and I pray
When I step on stage that God bless every note that I play
Amen

I wake up to detec messages in my email
This what I get for messin wit pretty females
It s a crazy life - yeah it s a mad world
Where good dudes will betray you over a bad girl

And bad girls ll take advantage of good dudes
Smear your name in the press and call it good news
Oh he hot now - oh he blowin up?
Call the cops - restraining order for showin up

If I was you, I d be seeing if I was ok
We had a problem you didn t call me the whole day
Your girlfriend picked up the phone and hung up on me
Who is she to do that - she don t even know me
F- the he say she say
The blame game - blasting Kanye on the freeway
I called my mother up for advice she said son
you should hold your heart
Girls play the victim so well: Joan of Arc

I took a chance on romance
I loved you
And now that it burns, still I yearn
To touch you
And the question is
Who gon love you like I love you, baby
Who gon love you like I love you, now?
Who gon love you like I love you, baby, baby

Listen, I know you must be mad - look how you lost it
You should work it out wit me tho, I m the one who caused it
I should ve cleaned the skeletons from my closet
Drivin to my apocalypse with 400 horses

Drop dead gorgeous - unfair advantage
You deserve an Emmy award for all your antics
Caught up in a battle of curse word semantics
Tryna find our way back home from Atlantis
You had your father call me - zero empathy
Reading about your new first date like it s meant for me
Tryna stay focused on winnin - yeah, hold my course
Meanwhile you infiltrated my heart - a trojan horse

They say in love and war - all s fair
But when you break up and go out - yeah, they all stare
Obfuscating the real reason we ve grown apart
You played the victim so well, Joan of Arc

Tryna figure out what the past meant
And since when a birthday gift is harassment
A rose gold bracelet nothing subliminal
You called your lawyer up said my actions were criminal

And now as I m sittin with a pad
in this motherf*ckin holding cell
I m thinking how could you do this to me? you cold as hell
A young emperor exiled: Bonaparte
Everything I fought for, lost - Joan of Arc