Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Everything I ever said, everything that I have done

 Try'na show 'em it's my time, building mansions in my mind

 Now that's all so yesterday, I'm just lighting up my fire

 Tell the world I'm say'n goodbye, you ask me why...

 I'm building castles in the sky

 I'm building castles in the sky

(Verse 1)

I used to ride around town in a whatcha-call-it

Lookin' like a dimmer rapper, feeling like a dusty wallet

Getting fired, then hired, then refired

The idiot's guide to "how to build an empire"

I'll show ya how to stunt, show ya how to pop

Got a watch for my wrist and a watch for my pops

Ballin' from the baseline, bottom to the top

Got bullets on speed dial, yeah, I call shots

Now you can't act like ya never heard o' me

Cuz I'm so third-degree, everday I'm burnin' leaves

I'm in my castle and I'm never comin' down

They always said I had my head in the clouds. Ha!

(Chorus)

(Verse 2)

I use'ta fantasize about the badest girl I couldn't get with

Couldn't get her number couldn't even get her digit

Then I saw the light, now my nights are quite explicit

I'll be lost inside the ganja with a swollen message

Got bills paid, got the whole hood sayin' "damn, Bobby Ray, came a mighty long way"

No GPS, On-Star or navigation

I'm a self made nigger, shout out to my operation

It started in my mind then it started takin' shape

I still cannot believe these events are takin' place

I'm in my castle and I'm never coming down

It's no wonder my head is in the clouds. Ha!

(Chorus)

(Bridge)

Building castles the size of collesiums

Thirty thousand feet up, I swear you gotta see 'em

Cruising altitude with a foolish attitude

Headed for the moon, maybe Mars, maybe Venus

(2X)

(Chorus)

(Outro)

Building castles the size of collesiums

Thirty thousand feet up, I swear you gotta see 'em

Cruising altitude with a foolish attitude

Headed for the moon, maybe Mars, maybe Venus