Hook:

Magnolia

Magnolia
Magnolia
Magnolia


Verse 1: (Lushlife)


I never subscribed
To crosstown beef
The baroness of Broad Street

Bowling Green, black
Folding the sheets
Holidng the heat

For months
Before they flow in the street
Eighty-nine, Wise Intelligent

Live and unique
Or either on the corner
Dipped in a polar fleece

When all I need is
Dime-pieces
Zola Jesus

All she see is
Crime in the city
Rhyming and bombing graffiti

On the bus
Just to catch a rush
Lushlife, right

Ballad of
Heavenly dames with
Heavenly frames

Rap Henry James
Henny drinker
With a periwinkle tailor-made

Balenciaga suit
Penny-loafer, Prada boot
Used to rock the Wallabies

While cooling out in Xanadu
Now I'm into Bacharach
Stacks and raps

Brill Building tracks
Handclaps
And spitting it back

So when I stay saying
Beautiful things
Why can't I live 'cause

(That's how it is)
(How it is)


Hook

Verse 2: (Lushlife)


I'm half
Herb and Dorothy Vogel

Half rap mogul
Half modal rap
Clap vocals

And stack totals
It's Lush Vida la Wonderwheel
Coney Island in summer feel

The number one stunner
In the sun appeal
And still always

Looking for breaks
Or either on the corner
Looking for Jake

High stakes
We looking to make
A wild, butter thesis

I hope Rammellzee
Rest in peace
Word to Jesus

Or word to whoever mother$#&@ers
The true believe in
I hope he's sitting on Planet Rock
And Human League'ing
Block party, human leaving

Earth
I'm guzzling beer
And rock a stare
Everywhere I look
Kilroy's here

Written clear
Spitting in the
Code of the streets
They holding the heat
Like the sun

That's looming in the sky
Old and unique
I speak the pitter-patter
Breath of the kids
And breath of the Wiz

(That's how it is)
(How it is)

Hook (x2)