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Lupe Fiasco - The Cool |
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Yeah... |
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Yeah... |
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The cool. |
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Turn me up |
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Uh-huh.. |
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Yeah.. |
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He came back |
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In the same suit that he was buried in |
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Similar to the one his grand father was married in |
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Yes... he was still fresh to death |
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Bling, two ear-rings, a chain laying on his chest |
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He still had it cuz they couldn't find it |
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And the bullets from his enemies sat like two inches behind it |
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Smelled the Hennesy from when his niggas got reminded |
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And poured out liquor in his memory, he didn't mind it, But... |
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He couldn't sip it fast enough |
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So the liquor was just filling the casket up |
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Floating down by his feet was the letter from his sister |
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Second Grade hand-writing simply read "I miss ya" |
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Suit jacket pocket held his baby daughter's picture |
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Right next to it one of his man's stuck a swisher |
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He had a notion as he laid there soaking |
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Saw that the latch was broken, he kicked his casket open |
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And he... |
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This life goes passing you by |
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It might go fast if you lie |
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You go and you live then you die... |
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O-oh-oh-ohh |
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If life goes passing you by |
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Don't cry |
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If you breaking the rules |
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Making your moves |
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Paying your dues... |
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Chasing the cool |
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Not at all nervous as he dug to the surface |
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Tarnished gold chain is what he loosened up the earth with |
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He used his mouth as a shovel to try and hollow it |
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And when he couldn't dirt spit... swollowed it |
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Working like a.. hmm.. reverse archaeologist |
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Except.. his buried treasure was sunshine |
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So when some shined through a hole that he had drove |
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It reflected off the gold and almost made son blind |
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He grabbed on to some grass, he climbed |
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Pulled himself up out of his own grave and looked at the time |
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On the watch that had stopped six months after the shots |
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That had got him in the box wringing Henny out his socks |
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Figured it was hours because he wasn't older |
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Used some flowers to brush the dirt up off his shoulders - so.. |
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With a right hand that was all bones and no reason to stay |
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Decided to walk home |
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So he.. |
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This life goes passing you by |
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It might go fast if you lie |
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You go and you live then you die... |
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O-oh-oh-ohh |
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If life goes passing you by |
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Don't cry |
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If you breaking the rules |
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Making your moves |
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Paying your dues... |
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Chasing the cool |
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He begged for some change to get him on a train |
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"Damn that nigga stank", is what they complained |
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Tried to light the blunt but it burst into flames |
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Caught the reflection in the window of what he became |
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A long look... Wasn't shook, wasn't ashamed |
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Matter fact only thing on his brain was brains.. yeah |
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And getting back in his lane, doing his thang |
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First he had to find something to slang |
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Next stop was his block |
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It had the same cops |
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Walked right past the same spot where he was shot |
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Shocked that some lil' niggas tried to sell him rocks |
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It just felt weird being on the opposite |
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They figured that he wasn't from there |
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So they pulled out and robbed him |
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With the same gun they shot him with |
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Put it to his head and said "You scared ain't ya?" |
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He said: "Hustler for death. No heaven for a gangsta." |
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This life goes passing you by |
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It might go fast if you lie |
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You go and you live then you die... |
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O-oh-oh-ohh |
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If life goes passing you by |
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Don't cry |
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If you breaking the rules |
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Making your moves |
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Paying your dues... |
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Chasing the cool |
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Lupe Fiasco - The Cool |
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