[00:25.16]Frigid frozen Minnesota
[00:27.05]Chip on his shoulder
[00:28.49]Sick sleeping on a pissy sofa
[00:30.42]Unwanted visitor in a different culture
[00:32.91]Missing home and he can't go their civil waring
[00:35.85]Listen solider forget getting over
[00:38.16]Prison state around the corner homless is even closer
[00:40.97]Kids with similar skin color still don't even wantcha
[00:43.83]Spit and insult ya cause they have been here longer
[00:46.27]He leave his crib he guaranteed the pigs approach ya
[00:48.82]Where ya going where ya from any weapons on ya
[00:51.51]Your family is stressed out your getting older
[00:53.88]You don't live the way they did back in Somalia
[00:56.57]It's extra difficult to be a daughter
[00:59.13]Trying to keep it modest with sinners all around you
[01:01.62]Where the wrong garment your parents get an ulcer
[01:04.12]If you wrap it up the other children picking on you
[01:07.55]Live in two worlds with your eyes closed
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[01:10.60]Tip toeing on a tight rope
[01:12.48]
[01:13.04]Holding on for survival
[01:15.53]Nobody to blame this is just how it goes
[01:17.98]Live in two worlds with your eyes closed
[01:20.79]Tip toeing on a tight rope
[01:23.04]
[01:23.60]Holding on for survival
[01:26.09]Nobody to blame this is just how it goes
[01:28.34]Holidays and you know what the business is
[01:30.84]You get two birthdays and two Christmases
[01:33.46]Older you get you resent how sick it is
[01:36.27]They're trying to cover their guilt with the gifts they give
[01:39.14]Bounce from his house to her house
[01:40.57]Too bad that marriage didn't work out
[01:42.38]Now you don't have a your house
[01:43.89]Daddy fighting mommy they both tell me they love me
[01:46.46]If I get to close to one the other one start acting funny
[01:49.56]Ma went and had a baby with a different dad
[01:52.30]You act happy to please em but you are really sad
[01:54.61]Seeing first hand that family that you will never have
[01:57.28]Plus you ain't no real brother  you're just a half
[02:00.22]Got to pick up the pieces and move on
[02:02.46]Bed time stories and greet them on the phone
[02:04.97]Live in two houses and neither one is home
[02:07.47]Wishing you were grown have the freedom to get gone
[02:10.65]Live in two worlds with your eyes closed
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[02:13.83]Tip toeing on a tight rope
[02:15.70]
[02:16.45]Holding on for survival
[02:18.82]Nobody to blame this is just how it goes
[02:21.32]Live in two worlds with your eyes closed
[02:24.00]Tip toeing on a tight rope
[02:26.37]
[02:27.00]Holding on for survival
[02:29.37]Nobody to blame this is just how it goes
[02:31.80]Daddy was a preacher  momma was a Sunday school teacher
[02:34.83]Big brother  football squad leader
[02:36.58]Now far be it for you to disappoint or displease them
[02:40.14]Your just being what you feel you see in
[02:42.45]That mirror every time you peer in
[02:44.58]Swallow the tears inside that empty feeling
[02:47.28]Her boy terrified to let the world in
[02:49.95]He has girlfriends but doesn't want a girlfriend
[02:52.82]He retreats inside himself
[02:55.01]Where he lives life itself in secret
[02:57.88]Daddy says people go to hell for being
[03:00.45]What he is and he certainly believes them
[03:03.44]Cause there ain't no flame that can blaze enough
[03:06.12]To trump being hated for the way you love
[03:08.80]And cry yourself to sleep and hate waking up
[03:11.24]It's a cold world y'all shame on us
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[03:13.98]Live in two worlds with your eyes closed
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[03:17.16]Tip toeing on a tight rope
[03:19.10]
[03:19.91]Holding on for survival
[03:22.22]Nobody to blame this is just how it goes
[03:24.60]Live in two worlds with your eyes closed
[03:27.47]Tip toeing on a tight rope
[03:29.66]
[03:30.34]Holding on for survival
[03:32.72]Nobody to blame this is just how it goes