Pay The Man (Remix)
Foster The People Song Lyrics

[Jid & mark foster]

Tell me what's your name, it was nice to meet you (what you need? what you need?)

Gather all your things and you're ready to go (what you need, man? what you need?)

Nice to meet you, it's oh so sweet (what you need? what you need, man?)

(What you need?)

[Jid]

Look

I had a reoccurring dream really teasing my mind

A search for a better purpose to be perfectly in line

A serpent is walking, a surface is swerving; it's spewing lies

I find, I'm watching my belt, I'm wasting my time

I swung high off the sky, from a tree to the vine

To land on my feet, devious but dealing with pride

I need a

I need a breather to catch up on my second wind and speed up

Running from hell, a speed demon

A cell, a key jingling, jingling, jingling, a gun, bang bang

They bang, you slain, insane, they're playing their game

I've been praying for things money could never buy

Like live and die as a man, a coward dies a thousand times

I'm outta sight and outta mind, I'm outta mind but don't mind it

Salvaging the silence 'til the cavalries arriving

Balancing a climate moving forward, looking up and then behind us

If you love me I can lead you where the light is.

[Mark foster]

Save what you love, it's alright

Don't be afraid to find your light

Embrace the day at night

We're here to fight, we on the wild again

And you have the name of someone I love

You said, just keep it true, lift up your name

Seasons change, you know it'll never be the same

We'll see the sun again

And before it fades

I just wanna say that I love you, mm...

[Saba]

Pay the man, pay the man

(Pay the man) look, mm

Run from my past like I run track, it's traumatic

My palace is polamalu, I'm grounded like getting sacked

I race demons like nascar, no assistance like nascar

One step forward, two steps back watch when I'm at war.

[Mark foster & saba]

And when it's raining

We're sailing (at war)

Oh yeah, we're sailing

We're sailing

I'm off the leash

I go to war for peace.

[Saba]

I sleep with an eye open like I'm monocular

I'm the opposite of a carper with carpal tunnel

Ain't never took a handout, no tunnel vision to it got my planned route

Like a cockroach in an ant farm I'ma stand out

Clock'll tick like a doggy dancing for foggy lantern

How I look for light when recording stanza, you know the answers

Uncharted area, the pressures no better medley

Yet here I am, falling right where blind man led me.

[Mark foster]

Save what you love, it's alright

Don't be afraid to find your light

Embrace the day at night

We're here to fight, we on the wild again

And you have the name of someone I love

You said, just keep it true, lift up your name

Seasons change, you know it'll never be the same

We'll see the sun again

And before it fades

I just wanna say that I love you, mm...

(Pay the man, pay the man, pay the man)

Pay the man, you got to pay the man

Pay the man, got to pay the man, pay the man

Well, I was laughing real hard until my teeth fell out

Laughing real hard until my teeth fell out

Was laughing real hard but my teeth fell out

Need a little something

Need a little something

(A little something, little something, little something)

You said, just keep it true, lift up your name

Seasons change, you know it'll never be the same

We'll see the sun again

And before it fades

I just wanna say that I love you, mm...

Can't you see? can't see me

Can't see me, can't see me

Yeah, can't see me, can't see me

We all run when the light comes on

Am I wrong for wanting it all?

But I warned you, mm...