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Familiar scene, street corner, tape and sheets |
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18 put to sleep, talk on the street |
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Til next week when a different face is another life wasted |
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Self-hatred is dangerous, the world see him as a thug |
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But don't understand |
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That a poor black man, ain't born with a strap in his hand |
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Was soft like all children at 5 years old |
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But the cycle and society, turned him cold |
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Pops fled the scene, left mom's on her own |
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To feed 3 seeds alone, so she never home |
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Sweatin' for change, but there's big dough in the game |
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And he wanna be next to push a range |
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So we change innocent, to militant ways, Rollin' with the bigger boys, doin whatever they say |
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But wait these streets ain't got no glory |
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Man rolled up on him, you know the rest of the story |
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Why do we live this way oh lord? |
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Why do we have to live this way? |
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Why do we live this way oh lord? |
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Why do we have to live this way? |
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Look at what we see and go through |
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Of course we're thugs, cause of our will to survive |
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Not cause of drugs |
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Living in foulest conditions, still breed proudest traditions |
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We speak, everybody listen |
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But we still jealous, when one of us shining |
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Like I'm grindin, why's my man shining? |
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I ain't criticizing, been known to be whiling |
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Just tryna give you food for thought when I'm rhyming |
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Cause I'm tired of youts' them dyin' cause there's no guidance |
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But I won't have my fam cryin |
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An eye for an eye? That's your science? |
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Cool we're the same then, let's get blinded |
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I'm not in the hype ting-handle ma business |
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If I feel somethings a threat, then that threats missin |
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Just know that my heart was good and that I tried |
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I just had too much pride |
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Why do we live this way oh lord? |
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Why do we have to live this way? |
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Why do we live this way oh lord? |
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Why do we have to live this way? |
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No matter how we act, we all got emotion |
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Just learn to hide it, it hurts to open |
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The street is a movie, stay in your role |
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If you let it go, vultures swallow you whole |
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But it don't fool me bro, I see things clear |
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Big killers get big years and shed big tears |
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If not at trial, gradually as the years pass |
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The guilt set in like a vice on the heart |
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Reminiscing bout the nigga at your side |
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Now he's missin' and no wishin could give him back life |
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That's just life, shit ain't fair |
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Man scream "street dreams', all I see is the nightmare's |
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Locked up, years pass seed dun grown |
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Get murked or hit the pipe, Either way you a ghost |
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And that's reality even though it's crazy |
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Got to change, or it's the same fate for our babies... |
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Why do we live this way oh lord? |
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Why do we have to live this way? |
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Why do we live this way oh lord? |
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Why do we have to live this way? |
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I've been talking to myself now lately |
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All the things going on so crazy |
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I wondering why would somebody explain it to me |
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I've been talking to myself now lately |
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All the things going on so crazy |
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Would somebody explain this to me |
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Would you tell me tell me why |
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This one's for all my people struggling |
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Looking for something better |
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Just hold on |
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It's coming ,Trust me |
