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I just wanna be like you, walk like, talk like, even think like you. |
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The only one |
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I could look to, you're teachin' me to be just like you. |
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Well I just gotta be like, like |
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I just gotta be like you. |
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Dear Uncle |
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Chris, Uncle |
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Keith, Uncle |
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Ricky, before the |
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Lord get me |
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I gotta say somethin' quickly. |
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I grew up different since my daddy wasn't with me, shoot, i wasn't picky, |
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I'd take any male figure, you stepped in at the right time. |
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It's cause of you that |
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I write rhymes. |
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You prolly never knew that. |
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I love the way you used to come through, teach me to do the things that men do. |
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True, you showed me stuff |
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I prolly shouldn't of seen, but you had barely made it out your teens, took me under your wings. |
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I wanted hats, |
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I wanted clothes just like you, lean to the side when |
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I roll just like you, didn't care if people didn't like you. you wanna bang, |
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I wanna bang too, |
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Skyline Pyrue. |
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You woulda died, |
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I woulda died too. |
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You went to prison, got sick, lost your pops yeah |
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I cried too. |
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You never know who's right behind you, |
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I got a little son now, and he do whatever |
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I do. But it's something deep inside you, that tell you its gotta be more than doin' what other guys do. |
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Didn't have nobody there to guide you, but |
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I followed your footsteps and this shouldn't suprise you. |
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You realize you, you realize you, you, yeah |
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I just wanna be like you. |
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I just wanna be like you, walk like, talk like, even think like you. |
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The only one |
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I could look to. |
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You're teachin' me to be just like you, well |
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I just gotta be like, like |
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I just gotta be like you. |
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Now all I see is money, cars, jewels, stars, womanizers, tuff guys, guns, knives, and scars, drug pushers, thugs, strippers, fast girls, fast life, "everything I wanted and everything I could ask" life. |
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If this aint livin' then they lied well. |
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Guess I married an old wive's tale. |
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Wow. Fail. |
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I don't know another way to go, this is the only way they ever show. |
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I got this emptiness inside that got me fightin' for approval cause |
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I missed out on my daddy sayin, "Way to go." didn't get that verbal affirmation don't know how to treat a woman, how to fix an engine, to keep the car runnin'. |
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So now I'm lookin at the media and |
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I'm followin' what they feed me. |
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Rap stars, trap stars, whoever wants to lead me. |
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Even though they lie they still tell me that they love me. |
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They say I'm good at bad things, at least they proud of me. |
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I just wanna be like you, walk like, talk like, even think like you. |
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The only one |
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I could look to. |
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You're teachin' me to be just like you. |
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Well I just gotta be like, like |
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I just gotta be like you. |
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I was created by |
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God but I ain't wanna be like |
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Him, I wanna be |
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Him. The Jack |
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Sparrow of my |
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Carribean. |
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I remember the first created bein', and how he shifted the blame on his dane for food he shouldn't of eaten'. |
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And I look at us all out of |
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Eden. Wearing designer fig leaves by |
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Louie Vuitton make believin'. |
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But God sees through my foolish pride, an how |
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I'm weak like |
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Adam, another victim of lucifer's lies. |
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Then in steps |
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Jesus. All men were created to lead, but we needed somebody to lead us. |
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More than a teacher, but somebody to buy us back from the darkness, you can say |
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He redeemed us. |
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Taught us that real leaders follow |
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God, finish the work cause we on our job. |
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Taught us not to rob, but give life. |
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Love a wife like |
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He loved the |
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Church, without seein' how many hearts we can break first. |
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I wanna be like you in every way. |
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So if I gotta die every day, unworthy sacrifice, but the least |
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I can do is give the most of me. |
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Cause bein' just like you is what |
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I'm supposed to be. |
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They say you came for the lame, |
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I'm the lamest. |
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I made a mess, but you say you'll erase it. |
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I'll take it. |
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They say you came for the lame, |
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I'm the lamest. |
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I broke my life, but you say you'll replace it. |
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I'll take it. |
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I just gotta be like, be like. |
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I just gotta be like, be like. |
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I just gotta be like you. |