[00:20.29]I had a way then, losing it all on my own
[00:27.00]I had a heart then but the queen has been overthrown
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[00:34.09]And I'm not sleeping now
[00:37.41]The dark is too hard to beat
[00:41.04]And I'm not keeping up the strength I need to push me
[00:47.60]sure You the lights don't stop me
[00:49.78]Turn to stone shining when I'm alone
[00:54.45]And so I tell myself that I am strong
[00:58.63]Dreaming when they're gone
[01:01.01]Cause they're calling, calling, calling
[01:04.08]Calling, calling, calling
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[01:08.42]You sure the lights don't stop me
[01:10.63]Turn to stone shining when I'm alone
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[01:17.12]So, what do you bunches stand for?
[01:19.09]Dreads in the sky, I and I
[01:20.78]2 new vans on a land 4
[01:22.47]Take that back, make that 2 new shoes on a van floor
[01:25.93]Me and my band out on that road
[01:27.92]On a never-back-down-from-a-stance tour
[01:29.86]Yeah, touch more souls than a dancefloor
[01:33.10]While they touch less tours than a hand or
[01:36.48]Ceiling fan or wait, let me tell ya slower
[01:39.22]Lift my fans up to the to the ceiling
[01:41.28]And you'll never touch the floor
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[01:44.66]Now if noah need a rower, I'll be there with my oar
[01:47.85]Til we get back to the shore
[01:49.91]Dad made me a soldier, gi joe to these cobras
[01:52.84]Tryna fbi my panther, cia my sankofa
[01:56.15]Infiltrate my carter, illuminate my culture
[02:00.09]While they watching through that bunker
[02:01.84]But I stay up on my hustle
[02:03.60]Turn that belt back on theyself
[02:05.30]Now I watch them scream for help
[02:06.93]Like africa need aid, or black women as maids
[02:10.32]Uncover undercovers turn those maids to?mothers
[02:13.51]Take the hero out the nino, keep it real as treble trouble huh?
[02:18.19]Or maybe cartoon martin on the boondocks
[02:20.58]Flip the script on chicks who think they shit smells like perfume shops
[02:24.27]Half them girls find beauty without a magazine or movie
[02:27.45]She delila with them 45 or keisha with that uzi
[02:30.94]Now I know that's contradiction, wants and needs and competition
[02:33.66]But it's hard to stay on point with such extremes in opposition
[02:37.80]While we waiting on that compromise, proceed with that conscious eye
[02:41.54]New gang alert: hashtag #occupies
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[02:45.01]Repping to the death of me, fnf what's left in me
[02:48.33]All my hate is for the fake recipes for?
[02:51.84]Only time I wrestle's when I'm wrestling with sex and lean
[02:55.02]Only way I settle if we wrestle over everythig
[02:58.48]I know that don't mix like ecstasy and ketamine
[03:02.14]Funny how I'm only sick if you never catch a thing
[03:05.63]Argue with your friends over what really the record means
[03:08.81]Back and forth about it's course, with professor's refereeing
[03:12.44]Why he so rebellious? up-front with his realness?
[03:15.68]They wanna be fiasco's, reproduce his failures
[03:19.17]Emperor is his alias, but not marcus aurelius
[03:22.55]This is more like sparta: kick you down a well, kid
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[03:27.82]And on my last check, I copped that nsx just like pharrell did
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[03:34.13]Well did, better days to come
[03:36.76]My only promise is I'll never ruin the young
[03:39.43]I'll never human and sung lyrics in a spirit that's
[03:42.61]Super human to some, keep you pursuin' the sun of
[03:46.24]Slums, plus, get up outta them, plus never forget
[03:49.79]This is where you from plus
[03:51.66]Make sure that you ballin when you come back up in them, plus
[03:55.29]We don't die, multiply, every single come-up
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[03:58.39]A rumpa-pum-pum-yup
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