Zanies and Fools

Well, we must be some zanies and fools To take a gamble on this love just like we do What a wonderfully crazy thing to do Love like mine that we were powerless to choose I'm so powerful every time I look at you No memory of anything I couldn't do It's possible, so possible Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah (You feel me, feel me, feel me) Once upon a time I wasn't sure of myself I would always claim I never had no help Look into the mirror, the most unfair of all Hit the Player Ball, it was unbearable Another big birthday, another milestone To make your birthstone feel like rhinestone The caterpillars that had buried inside my belly Started to flutter before I learned how to fly I had a bunch of midlife crises 'fore I turned twenty-five The teachers put me in the back where I was learning to hide 'Cause when the teachers call you special, that's a perfect disguise I had to bury all the dancing that would burgeon inside I got quiet, thought the silence was the perfect reply I turn to Casper any time a nigga turn on the slide Until I turned up at the talent show, a permanent high I had Jesus behind the wheel before I learned how to drive 'Cause it's poss- Possible It's possible It's possible It's possible It's possible It's possible It's possible It's possible Once upon a time, a lady who tried twice At being a good wife and giving a good life To both of her lil' girls with ballerina tights She called up the RE/MAX and opened her own site Clothes and open houses, hired her own type Alimony is phony, she paid for her own flights Crazy office parties, she's throwin' 'em inside And my mama sealed my fate when she opened the invite The lady had a plan, she knew it all in advance The party was a good mixture of employees and friends She told the people comin' to make sure they bring their kids Yeah, bring some food, but just make sure you bring your kids After we arrived and after standing around The lady take the glass and told us gather around For a special performance from her daughters, she said it proud But tonight they not my daughters, tonight they Destiny's Child Out from the back came three lil' survivors In formation, choreo tight The one on the left, I think I might like her One on the left, I think I might love her Lady just folds her arms, rubs her hands All of the lessons, learn how to dance All of these moments left up to chance Everything will go right as it can It's possible It's possible (it's possible) It's possible (it's possible) (Vous allez accomplir, vous allez accomplir, allez) It's possible (t'ouvres grand, yé) It's possible (t'ouvres grand, yé) It's possible It's possible Once upon a time, I had carats supplied To a pair of fair rings I would share with the bride Every kiss begins with clear cut clarity sides They were forever, but marriage had an apparent decline Now we live in fear of doin' what our parents was tryin' So every Rapunzel don't got the kind of hair you can climb Every since they lost a slipper, every pair that they find They say these boots were made for dancing like Mary J. Blige We live a life apart, life so hard Life'll never really end up like the start We learn together how the back door feels And we was jumping over brooms in tobacco fields We was the same, all black folks still Until the white man found out black votes steal elections So they legitimized us, but behind us It's still black folks at the back door still For every small increment liberated, our women waited And all they privacy been invaded Almost every trade I got through the slave owner Dark skin, brown, nose round, but the Bennett made it Now I wanna give it to her, Sierra Leone, serenade Sometimes love come with it's own barricade Sometimes love just gotta hold, marinate Let it hold, let it wait, here it go, here it go It's possible (it's possible) It's possible (it's possible) (Vous allez accomplir, vous allez accomplir, allez) It's possible (t'ouvres grand, yé) It's possible (t'ouvres grand, yé) It's possible It's possible Ayy, yo Once upon a time, a girl from Trinidad Had to fly to Canada and sneak into the land Of the free and of the brave, feet under the sand And I came in realizing nothing free in the land Dreams of making money, had to split it with Sam All that "Making the Band", yeah, I could've did it, but damn Had to really be on the come-up, had to stick to the plan Went from rockin' with Fendi, now Fendi know I'm a brand That's how God do, I'm in your top two And I ain't number two, conquered rap, then the pop, too You gon' stop who? Get off cock, dude This itty bitty piggy giving bitches what they bop to I met my husband when I was seventeen out in Queens If you love it, let it go, now I know what that means While he was up North for a body I bodied everybody and got known for my body My nigga home now, he the Clyde to my Bonnie 'Bout to walk down the aisle and be a mommy Ooh, I remember when I cried like, "Why me?" Now I wouldn't exchange my life for Armani Sometimes I feel like I'm dreaming and then it hits me Gotta remember who I am when it slips me Kids running up to the car yelling, "Nicki" All my bad bitches, I know that y'all with me Fuck they thought was sittin' in my seat? Got a big bowl of ice cream sitting in my Jeep Got some felons that'll put you on ice, so don't sleep 'Bout to dead this whole beat for rocks and gold teeth It's possible, it's possible It's possible to me