The Oath (From "Empire: Season 6")

The Oath (From "Empire: Season 6") - Empire Cast/Yazz

Lyrics by：Derrell Jackson/Marcos Palacios/King Los

Composed by：Derrell Jackson/Marcos Palacios/King Los

Loyalty and honor ride to the death

Learn from these struggles

Then apply it to the test

Be like david and goliath

To these giants when they pressed

If livin' through your worst got you dyin' for the best

You a lyon in the flesh

Yeah you a lyon in the flesh

Thank God I'm a lyon in the flesh

God I'm a lyon in the flesh

No more hurt no more cryin'

When I'm stressed nah

I took the oath to be a lyon in the flesh yeah

It started out in philly

When the cutie in the streets

Named cookie met lucious

It was beauty and the beast

Was it lust a first sight

Or was it love to the end

Only thing we'll know for sure is

They was more than just a friend nah

He would look into her eyes to see the fire within

She looked back into his eyes and saw

Messiah in him yeah yeah

This was destiny fate like it was higher than them

Then three boys later let the empire begin uh huh

See andre the oldest son though it ain't a surprise

Like his father dedicated educated and wise

But jamal the middle child felt the greatest divide

A lifestyle that lucious didn't hesitate to despise yeah

Attention between the two recipe for demise

'Cause everybody know a lyon's legacy

Is it's pride uh huh

I arrived the youngest child but I'm right in the zone

Last descendant of a king willin' to fight for the throne

I was bread for this how could

I have feared this point

My own mama did seventeen years in the joint

I'm here for everything they owe me

I ain't makin' it close

Born ready so I'm takin' the oath

It go

Loyalty and honor ride to the death

Learn from these struggles then apply it to the test

Be like david and goliath to these giants when they pressed

If livin' through your worst got you dyin' for the best

You a lyon in the flesh

Yeah you a lyon in the flesh

Thank God I'm a lyon in the flesh

God I'm a lyon in the flesh

No more hurt no more cryin' when I'm stressed

I took the oath to be a lyon in the flesh

Any type of success breed hate don't it hate don't it

Holdin' the family name holdin'

Weight don't it weight don't it

The grind is long the victory

Show up late don't it

I can't fall I know my enemies waitin' on it

See life teach you lessons

Can't nobody learn for you learn for you

I watched my mother and father goin' through turmoil

The one's that stab you in your back

Was never fit for you

Imagine marryin' somebody so

They won't snitch on you snitch on ya

Yeah my family fell out had clashes right

But we 'rose like the phoenix from the ashes right

You ever had somebody ride for you

I mean go out in a blaze that'll die for you

My father said never borrow a beat

'Cause tryna shine might cost

You an arm and a leg arm or a leg

Sometimes I'm furious from the thought of that

Mama knows life gets serious as a heart attack

I love my brothers no matter what no matter what

We just take the good

With the ugly and add it up

Pop shined 'dre and jamal went

Through it all and patched it up uh huh

But found something great in it all

Now it's us

We took the oath

Family over everything family over everything

Love love lyons lyons

Yeah