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At my brother's Janazah |
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Tears stained sunglassses |
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A Salat with no bows |
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Pallbearer carry you to the car now |
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Chilly day Mosque on 96 and 3rd |
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New York City way me and Jay never left my side |
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Rest like that picture with your pride |
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Who look just like |
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Now the city looks less bright |
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Brooklyn looking less special |
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Don't carry the same weight |
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As when you were on this level |
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You: work in progress from 40 projects God bless |
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An inspiration and a king |
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They won't know what I mean but this one 'bout to spring |
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Protect it with every feather on the wings |
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So even when it hurts you'll never feel a thing |
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Said it's a cold cold war |
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Ain't nobody wins like the government |
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In the U S S R |
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Cause this is all for shares |
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Nobody cares |
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Who you think you are |
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And you can fight it but there's no defense |
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For what things are |
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Baby grab a jacket |
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It's a cold cold |
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Let me clarify the chorus |
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And what my cold war is |
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Cause the complexity is enormous |
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Using one of my greatest losses with eyes like faucets |
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To reinforce every single word that I talk with |
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Something about losing things human beings |
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That reduces things to their most elementary |
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Find yourself where you never meant to be |
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With the energy of memories |
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That's the soul force of what's behind killing me |
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Finding pleasure in the pains |
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Like finding desert in the rain |
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Twisted: how this world can drive you masochistic |
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Question if I'm over it |
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Or if I'm numb because I'm closureless |
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Or my closure's that we all gotta go and shit |
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Rendered emotionless but moving at the speed of running over it |
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Still happy that I opened it |
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Said it's a cold cold war |
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Ain't nobody wins like the government |
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In the U S S R |
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Cause this is all for shares |
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Nobody cares |
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Who you think you are |
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And you can fight it but there's no defense |
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For what things are |
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Baby grab a jacket |
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It's a cold cold |
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In the studio writing these words |
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One after another |
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In memorial of my brother |
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As you listen to the album with |
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Nothing on the cover |
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I imagine that he hovers |
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In the back of his chair |
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Floating right there in the air |
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Nodding his head to the music I slightly lose it |
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Ask why do I put myself through this |
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Crack a smile look up at the file |
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The waveforms on the screen of me tryna tell you what I mean |
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But I feel that it's all lost |
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Or maybe that it's all gotta cross |
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Happy with his dedicated song |
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But now he's all gone |
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But he was never there cause |
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He was everywhere nowhere and down here |
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Maybe on that judgement day rise up |
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We'll both open our eyes up climb up |
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Hoping God forgives us for our tendencies |
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Wipes away our cool young histories |
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Said it's a cold cold war |
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Ain't nobody wins like the government |
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In the U S S R |
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Cause this is all for shares |
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Nobody cares |
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Who you think you are |
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And you can fight it |
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But there's no defense |
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For what things are |
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Baby grab a jacket |
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It's a cold cold |
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Ride around you know what I'm saying |
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All over the world right I mean everywhere |
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I mean we just disappear and just come back |
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I feel like we can just put him anywhere |
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He'd find his way back home y'know'm saying |
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Another random thing's that consequence to me |
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But maybe to you not much |
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But with that said the reason behind me |
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Why I do what I does love |
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Just riding around bumping that uh |
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Either Jay or Nas or me |
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I used to tell him like "yeah you alright" |
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But you ain't f**king with my man |
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It was always like that so |
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Drop a little for you let it bump |
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This that Esco music it's that Esco music |
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Bumping with my Esco music that raw |
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See you on the other side As-Salamu Alaykum |