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[00:09.80]I was stuck, no I couldn't move up
[00:12.43]Give a ****, I'm a nice guy, heart bruised up
[00:14.69]Light skin youth same complexion bruiser
[00:17.18]My life grew, that's right I grew up
[00:19.77]Try truth, don't try amuse us
[00:22.41]What would I be if I ain't have music?
[00:24.80]Just let it be, can't entertain the bruises
[00:27.32]I gotta heal 'cause I was squealin' too much
[00:29.71]Poppa feel too real, true love
[00:32.7]I'm up front, the back line move up
[00:34.53]Catch me offsides, sometimes you gotta choose up
[00:36.70]On the street light stepping through the mud
[00:39.42]Couldn't settle, it was never what it was
[00:41.90]Time lost for the pain on my cousin
[00:44.45]Shine on me, lens get focused
[00:46.91]Snap shots of the block I would grow on
[00:49.34]Front lawn grass hopping like a locust
[00:51.79]12th street til the day that I croak
[00:54.22]Malamutes pull, got the reins in my palms
[00:56.60]When it rain put my faith in Ifá
[00:58.72]Taking it far, got the face of a god
[01:00.93]No face gon' alarm me
[01:01.97]Bitter taste don't alarm me
[01:04.25]Used to it on the farm scene
[01:06.6]Back then I was in them Phat Farm jeans
[01:08.51]Baby Phat we was speaking over sun cheeks
[01:10.83]Rose red, light skin but the truth speaks
[01:12.85]My heart gon' sing whenever it get the chance
[01:15.87]Try love measuring better things within grasps
[01:18.23]In the back of the cab we crash
[01:21.37]In the back, we crash