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This track tackles the unrelenting issue of police shooting members of the African American community by questioning God’s intentions.
The song was written the morning after the news that the officer who shot Michael Brown, an 18 year old black man who was killed by the said police officer in Fergu...
[Verse 1]
Did you see the news last night?
They shot another one down
Does it even matter why?
Or is it all for nothing?
[Chorus]
Father who art in heaven
Is this how you saw it when you made your creation?
Is this what you wanted?
Is this what you wanted?
[Post-Chorus]
Maybe we’ll never know
Or maybe we’ll find paradise in the sky when we die
When we die
When we die, yeah
[Verse 2]
Took her to the moon last night
Little bit of weed, a little wine
Left everything else behind
No plans on coming home
[Chorus]
Father who art in heaven
This is what you’ve started, it’s your creation
Is this what you wanted? What
Is this what you wanted?
[Bridge]
Rather watch the world burn down
From a penthouse cloud, real talk
But if this is what you want, I’ll fight ’til the
Smoke-filled skies make the days turn night, then what?
Maybe when the world burns down
And the clouds turns black
And the sky turns white
And the days turn night
It’s a war outside
It’s a war outside
It’s a war outside
[Post-Chorus]
Or maybe we’ll find paradise in the sky
When we die (When we die)
When we die, yeah
[Part 2]
[Instrumental Outro]
Penthouse Cloud was written by Christopher Anthony Goldsmith & Patrick Paige II & Syd.
Penthouse Cloud was produced by Nick Green & Matt Martians & Steve Lacy & The Highlights.
The Internet released Penthouse Cloud on Tue Jun 30 2015.
I got the track, and I was like perfect, we don’t have one of these yet. Naturally you’d be thinking, “oh a slow [beat], let’s write a love song” […] and then whole Michael Brown thing happened. I just remember watching the news when they read the verdict and thinking “OK, alright, that’s done”, the...