[ti:That Power] [ar:Childish Gambino] [al:CAMP] [offset:0] [00:00.39]That Power - Childish Gambino [00:01.83]All these haters [00:03.53] [00:04.34]See you later [00:06.17] [00:07.23]All that I could do [00:09.64]But you dont even feel me though [00:11.22]I know you know I know you got that power [00:14.90] [00:16.90]That power [00:17.96] [00:19.89]Oh, oh oh [00:22.39] [00:22.95]So CG but a nigga stay real [00:25.40]Though I'm fly I'm ill I'm running shit [00:27.15]3-points, field goal [00:28.39]Rappers used to laugh like I tripped and fell [00:30.89]Cause I don't stunt a gold cross like I Christian bail [00:33.70]Yeah, they starin' at me jealous cause I do shows bigger [00:36.57]But your looks don't help, like an old gold digger [00:39.38]Uncool, but lyrically I'm a stone cold killer [00:42.12]So it's 400 blows to these Truffaut niggas [00:44.67] [00:45.99]Yeah, now that's the line of the century [00:48.11]Niggas missed it, too busy [00:49.35]They lyin' 'bout penitentiary [00:50.98]Man, you ain't been there [00:52.41]Nigga you been scared [00:54.03]And I'm still living single like Synclaire [00:56.65]Lovin' white dudes who call me white and then try to hate [00:59.72]When I wasn't white enough to use your pool when I was 8 [01:02.71]Stone Mountain you raised me well [01:04.70]I'm stared at by Confederates but hard as hell [01:07.65]Tight jeans penny loafers, but I still drink a Bodine [01:10.46]Staying on my me shit, but hated on by both sides [01:13.58]I'm just a kid who blowing up with my father's name [01:16.51]And every black "you're not black enough" [01:18.14]Is a white "you're all the same" [01:19.57]Mm Food like Rapp Snitch Knishes [01:21.77]Cuz its oreos, twinkies, coconuts, delicious [01:24.57] [01:25.14]How many gold plaques you want inside your dining room? [01:27.70]I said I want a full house [01:29.14]They said, "You got it dude!" [01:30.60] [01:32.03]All these haters [01:33.53] [01:34.71]See you later [01:36.34] [01:37.52]All that I could do [01:38.89] [01:39.71]But you dont even feel me though [01:41.51]I know you know I know you got that power [01:44.95] [01:47.13]That power [01:48.01] [01:50.13]Oh, oh oh [01:52.56]Holla, holla, holla, holla at yo boy [01:54.50]Like yo dad when he's pissed off [01:56.00]Got flow, I could make a cripple crip walk [01:58.86]Niggas' breath stank, all they do is shit talk [02:01.61]People want a real man, I made 'em wait this long [02:04.61]Maybe if he bombs, he'll quit and keep actin' [02:07.16]And save paper like your aunt does with McDonald napkins [02:09.98]How'd it happen? Honesty did it [02:12.55]See all of my competition at the bodies exhibit [02:15.23]Yeah I bodied the limits and I get at them fakers [02:18.11]Motherfuck if you hate it, cremated them haters [02:20.94]So, my studio be a funeral [02:23.85]Yeah, this is our year, oh you didn't know? [02:27.15]Uh, yeah I'm killin' you, step inside the lion's den [02:29.83]Man I'm hov if the 'O' was an 'I' instead [02:32.90]On stage with my family in front of me [02:35.53]I am what I am: everything I wanna be [02:37.94] [02:39.75]All these haters [02:41.31] [02:42.31]See you later [02:44.18] [02:45.36]All that I could do [02:46.80] [02:47.49]But you dont even feel me though [02:49.30]I know you know I know you got that power [02:52.92] [02:54.86]That power [02:55.67] [03:13.01]This is on a bus back from camp. [03:15.03] [03:16.28]I'm thirteen and so are you. [03:17.29] [03:18.53]Before I left for camp I imagined it would be me and three or four other dudes I hadn't met yet, running around all summer, [03:23.10]getting into trouble. [03:23.53] [03:25.65]It turned out it would be me and just one girl. [03:27.40] [03:28.02]That's you. [03:28.33] [03:29.52]And we're still at camp [03:30.58]as long as we're on the bus [03:31.66]and not at the pickup point [03:32.78]where our parents would be waiting for us. [03:34.22] [03:34.97]We're still wearing our orange camp t-shirts. [03:36.23] [03:37.23]We still smell like pineneedles. [03:38.03] [03:39.35]I like you and you like me and I more-than-like you, [03:42.21]but I don't know if you do or don't more-than-like me. [03:45.15]You've never said, so I haven't been saying anything all summer, [03:48.20]content to enjoy the small miracle of a girl [03:50.26]choosing to talk to me and choosing to do so again [03:52.74]the next day and so on. [03:53.80] [03:54.99]A girl who's smart and funny and who, [03:58.00]if I say something dumb for a laugh, [04:00.12]is willing to say something two or three times [04:01.81]as dumb to make me laugh, [04:02.93] [04:03.68]but who also gets weird and wise sometimes in a way I could never be. [04:07.18]A girl who reads books that no one's assigned to her, [04:10.37]whose curly brown hair has a line running through it from [04:12.99] [04:13.49]where she put a tie to hold it up while it was still wet [04:15.43] [04:16.55]Back in the real world we don't go to the same school, [04:19.30] [04:20.17]and unless one of our families moves to a dramatically different neighborhood, [04:23.23]we won't go to the same high school. [04:24.60] [04:25.35]So, this is kind of it for us. Unless I say something. [04:28.81] [04:29.93]And it might especially be it for us if I actually do say something. [04:32.55] [04:34.44]The sun's gone down and the bus is quiet. [04:36.06] [04:37.00]A lot of kids are asleep. [04:37.93] [04:38.74]We're talking in whispers about a tree we saw at a rest stop that looks like a kid we know. [04:42.80] [04:43.49]And then I'm like, "Can I tell you something?" [04:46.53] [04:47.65]And all of a sudden I'm telling you. [04:49.40]And I keep telling you and it all comes out of me [04:52.29]and it keeps coming and your face is there and gone [04:54.53]and there and gone as we pass underneath the orange lamps [04:56.58]that line the sides of the highway. [04:57.90] [04:58.58]And there's no expression on it. [04:59.77] [05:00.40]And I think just after a point [05:01.95]I'm just talking to lengthen the time [05:03.83]where we live in a world where you haven't said "yes" or "no" yet. [05:07.95]And regrettably I end up using the word "destiny." I [05:13.31]don't remember in what context. [05:14.31] [05:15.49]Doesn't really matter. [05:16.12] [05:17.68]Before long I'm out of stuff to say [05:19.49] [05:20.11]and you smile and say, "okay." [05:21.50] [05:23.06]I don't know exactly what you mean by it, [05:24.93]but it seems vaguely positive and I would leave in order not to spoil the moment, [05:28.67]but there's nowhere to go because we're are on a bus. [05:31.17]So I pretend like I'm asleep and before long, I really am [05:34.44] [05:37.23]I wake up, the bus isn't moving anymore. [05:39.48] [05:40.66]The domed lights that line the center aisle are all on. [05:43.28]I turn and you're not there. [05:44.92] [05:45.86]Then again a lot of kids aren't in their seats anymore. [05:47.86] [05:48.72]We're parked at the pick-up point, [05:50.47]which is in the parking lot of a Methodist church. [05:52.35] [05:53.36]The bus is half empty. [05:54.73]You might be in your dad's car by now, [05:56.76]your bags and things piled high in the trunk. [05:58.26] [05:59.45]The girls in the back of the bus are shrieking [06:01.07]and laughing and taking their sweet time disembarking [06:02.67]as I swing my legs out into the aisle to get up off the bus, [06:06.11]just as one of them reaches my row. [06:07.97] [06:08.78]It used to be our row, on our way off. [06:11.78]It's Michelle, [06:13.53]a girl who got suspended from third grade for a week [06:17.03]after throwing rocks at my head. [06:18.15] [06:19.33]Adolescence is doing her a ton of favors body-wise. [06:21.51] [06:22.45]She stops and looks down at me. [06:24.07] [06:24.82]And her head is blasted from behind by the dome light, [06:26.94]so I can't really see her face, but I can see her smile. [06:30.00] [06:30.68]And she says one word: "destiny." [06:33.81] [06:35.86]Then her and the girls clogging the aisles behind her [06:37.80]all laugh and then she turns and leads them off the bus. [06:40.00] [06:42.62]I didn't know you were friends with them [06:44.19] [06:46.99]I find my dad in the parking lot. [06:48.30] [06:49.17]He drives me back to our house and camp is over. [06:50.99] [06:52.23]So is summer, even though there's two weeks until school starts. [06:55.54] [06:57.47]This isn't a story about how girls are evil or how love is bad, [07:00.72] [07:01.34]this is a story about how I learned something [07:03.71]and I'm not saying this thing is true or not, [07:05.40]I'm just saying it's what I learned. [07:06.45] [07:07.39]I told you something. [07:08.02] [07:09.01]It was just for you and you told everybody. [07:11.33] [07:12.01]So I learned cut out the middle man, [07:13.46]make it all for everybody, always. [07:15.09]Everybody can't turn around and tell everybody, [07:17.08]everybody already knows, I told them. [07:18.64]But this means there isn't a place in my life for you or someone like you [07:22.50]. Is it sad? Sure. But it's a sadness I chose. [07:25.49] [07:27.05]I wish I could say this was a story about how I got on the bus a boy and got off a man more cynical, hardened, and mature and shit. [07:32.99]But that's not true. [07:34.24] [07:35.24]The truth is I got on bus a the boy. And I never got off the bus. [07:38.74]I still haven't.