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I used to dream every night, now I never dream at all |
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I' m hopin' that it' s cause I' m livin' everything I want |
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I used to wake up in a bed between my mom and aunt |
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Playing with this Land Before Time toy from Pizza Hut |
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My dad works nights, putting on a stone face |
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He' s saving up so we can get our own place |
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In the projects, man that sounds fancy to me |
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They called me fat nose, my mom say you handsome to me |
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Mrs. Glover ma' am, your son is so advanced |
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But he' s acting up in class and keeps peeing in his pants |
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And I just wanna fit in, but nobody was helping me out |
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They talking hood shit and I ain' t know what that was about |
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Cause hood shit and black shit is super different |
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So I' m talking hood shit and cool it now like New Edition |
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Mom and dad wouldn' t listen |
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They left the Bronx so I wouldn' t be that |
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All their friends in NY deal crack |
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It' s weird, you think that they' d be proud of ' em |
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But when you leave the hood they think that you look down on ' em |
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The truth is we still struggle on a different plane |
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7 dollars an hour, WIC vouchers, it' s all the same |
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Facebook messaging hopin' that could patch up shit |
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But all they get now is, |
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" Can your son read this script?" |
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There' s a world we can visit if we go outside |
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Outside, outside |
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We can follow the road |
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There' s a world we can visit if we go outside |
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Outside, outside |
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No one knows |
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There' s a world we can visit if we go outside |
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Outside, outside |
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We can follow the road |
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There' s a world we can visit if we go outside |
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Outside, outside |
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No one knows |
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Yeah |
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Dad lost his job, mama worked at Mrs. Winner' s |
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Gun pulled in her face, she still made dinner |
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" Donald watch the meter so they don' t turn the lights off" |
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Workin' two jobs so I can get into that white school |
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And I hate it there |
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They all make fun of my clothes and wanna touch my hair |
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And my uncle on that stuff that got my grandma shook |
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Drug dealers roughed him up and stole his address book |
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He' s supposed to pay ' em back |
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He owe ' em money but his bank account is zero |
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So my momma made us sleep with Phillips heads under the pillow |
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Like that would do somethin' |
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But she' s got six kids, she' s gotta do somethin' |
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She don' t want me in a lifestyle like my cousin |
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And he mad cause his father ain' t around |
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He lookin' at me now, like |
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" Why you so fuckin lucky? I had a father too |
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But he ain' t around so I' mma take it out on you" |
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We used to say " I love you," now we only think that shit |
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It feels weird that you' re the person I took sink baths with |
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Street took you over, I want my cousin back |
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The world sayin' what you are because you' re young and black |
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Don' t believe ' em |
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You' re still that kid who kept the older boys from teasin' |
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For some reason |
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There' s a world we can visit if we go outside |
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Outside, outside |
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We can follow the road |
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There' s a world we can visit if we go outside |
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Outside, outside |
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No one knows |
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There' s a world we can visit if we go outside |
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Outside, outside |
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We can follow the road |
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There' s a world we can visit if we go outside |
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Outside, outside |
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No one knows |
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Can you hear me now? |
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Can you hear me now? |
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Oh, help us Lord |
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Oh, baby baby baby |
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