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Yeah, believe it or not |
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What kept me alive is my dreams |
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I'm a dreamer but I ain't the only one got problems |
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But we love to have fun |
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This is our world, from here to your hood |
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We alive man, it's okay to feel good |
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I'm a dreamer but I ain't the only one got problems |
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But we love to have fun |
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This is our world, from here to your hood |
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Lock me up now, it's okay to feel good |
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I got a friend named Flow |
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Who got a friend named Blow |
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With a finger named Clap |
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That'll leave you on the side like a Kangol hat |
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He ain't have no choice, he was born this way |
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These streets pull your number like a phone display |
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And you gotta be defensive with your life |
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You gotta be like Bush and take pre-emptive strikes |
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And the boys from the hood are always hard |
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Let alone in Mogadishu it's a mastered art |
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If you bring the world hoods to a seminar |
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We from the only place worse then Kandahar |
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Well, that's kinda hard |
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But we still like to party and hardy hard |
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Something good happens we say, 'Mashallah' |
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Something bad happens, 'Que Sera Sera' |
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I close my eyes and all I can see is you dancing with me |
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I'm a dreamer but I ain't the only one got problems |
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But we love to have fun |
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This is our world, from here to your hood |
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We alive man, it's okay to feel good |
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I'm a dreamer but I ain't the only one got problems |
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But we love to have fun |
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This is our world, from here to your hood |
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Lock me up now, it's okay to feel good |
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I'm a dreamer |
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It's okay to feel good, yeah, it's the truth |
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Ay, yo' check it out |
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What would it take for a boy about my age |
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To hear cheers in his head upon that stage |
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And the cheers that would drown out |
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The tears from my brown eyes? |
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Come on back stage, you see the screams |
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Ain't the screams from gunshot streams |
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In my dreams, these screams are from hot teens |
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And I'm barely thirteen, I pack dirty |
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Old Russian firearm that shoots thirty |
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Just then I hear the bus engine |
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I'm transcending, I'm crowd surfing |
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I can't see the time burning |
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I'm not hurting with my mahogany pen |
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I'm on a world tour with Mohammad and them |
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And we'd be overseas and not in these trees |
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Where my peeps stay alive like the Bee Gees |
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And the likes of JZ would save my steeze |
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Singing handily brought Hip Hop peace |
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I'm a dreamer but I ain't the only one got problems |
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But we love to have fun |
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This is our world, from here to your hood |
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We alive man, it's okay to feel good |
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I'm a dreamer but I ain't the only one got problems |
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But we love to have fun |
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This is our world, from here to your hood |
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Lock me up now, it's okay to feel good, I'm a dreamer |
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Sometimes we just like to have fun |
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Man, we like to forget all the fighting |
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All the guns and the tires burning |
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Back on the verse, imagine crack was in birth |
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Imagine the earth wasn't hurt, imagine no homeland alerts |
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Imagine no record locater |
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So I wouldn't have to get a criminal waiver |
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Imagine the peace wasn't ; in my briefs |
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Instead peace could stretch across the seas |
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So finally we could just rest and ease, no refugees |
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And you, well, you could dress in a book |
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And I can read your body with less then a look |
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I got a dream girl in my mind that's the hook |
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An intellectual, sexual and still can cook |
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Yeah, and I feel good right now |
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I feel good right here, you feel good right now? |
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You feel good? |
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I'm a dreamer but I ain't the only one got problems |
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But we love to have fun |
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This is our world, from here to your hood |
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We alive man, it's okay to feel good |
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I'm a dreamer but I ain't the only one got problems |
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But we love to have fun |
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This is our world, from here to your hood |
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Lock me up now, it's okay to feel good |
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I'm a dreamer but I ain't the only one got problems |
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But we love to have fun |
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This is our world, from here to your hood |
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We alive man, it's okay to feel good |
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I'm a dreamer but I ain't the only one got problems |
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But we love to have fun |
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This is our world, from here to your hood |
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Lock me up now, it's okay to feel good |
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Yeah, we not down and out just because the times are hard |
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Yeah, shout out to the struggler's in my country |
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The hardest place on earth right now but still |
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I still know how to get down, I still know how to vibe out |
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I still know how to talk to a pretty girl, take it easy now, yeah |
