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(Canibus) |
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You know this rap game is a lot like high school |
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and high school is a lot like life |
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You see in life, you got to do things to set yourself apart from your peers |
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you need to identify the qualities that separate you from those around you |
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After all, isn't that what most people spend they lives trying to accomplish? |
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Wouldn't we all want somebody, somewhere later on down |
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the line to remember the things that were different about us? |
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Don't you understand? The more you fit in, the less you're noticed |
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That's how it is, for anyone to walk through life unnoticed as if they never mattered |
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could be a punishment worse than death, and at the same time |
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that punishment is the only way you could truly be free; |
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free from the things you want people to remember about you |
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but also free from the things you want them to forget |
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I don't know if that freedom exists for me anymore |
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And even though I dream about what it would be like |
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it's just a dream, because I realize now more than ever |
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that I can't have my cake and eat it too, no one can |
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And as time goes on, we will always be loved by some and hated by others |
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And whether the people who talk bad about you know it or not |
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they really save you from obscurity every time they mention your name |
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You see, anytime anybody ever talks about you, either directly or indirectly |
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they put a quarter in your immortal meter |
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They keep you alive, whether they want to or not |
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they practically do the opposite of what they want to do |
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which is forget you. I dedicate this song, to the day |
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when you motherfuckers finally figure it out |
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and the day that you bury me, and erase the memory of me |
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Here lies a man, who became forgotten to the world |
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in his search to the key for immortality |
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He never made an impact, he changed nothing |
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and his words meant nothing |
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He never contributed to the rap game; |
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he never gave you anything to talk about |
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He never existed, and he never made a difference |
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his name was Nobody! |
