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Verse 1 |
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When I look you in your eyes I can see my own |
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Straight love manifested in flesh and bone |
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You's a breath of fresh air in this world of *********t |
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You was born to be a soldier don't ever forget |
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Hit back when hit |
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Use force that's effective |
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All these *********es and women |
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Son, please be selective |
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This is California can't stick your ********* in everything |
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We will survive necessarily by any means |
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Let no man ever hold you down or supress you |
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It's the 90's the police just arrest you, |
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disrespect you on occasion take life |
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By the time you come of age they'll probably blast on sight |
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It's a shame they protect them but try to serve us |
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When your neck is on the line stand ground then bust |
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In God we trust but just incase keep it loaded and locked |
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Ready to rock |
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Then shake the spot |
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The Foundation |
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Verse 2 |
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You came from a long line of killers and drug dealers |
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Who forever smoke bud |
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So it's probably in your blood |
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Realize you can only run the streets so long |
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Then the streets run you into the ground then gone |
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It's kinda ruff trying to teach you what's right from wrong |
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Same *********t different day |
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It's the same ol' song |
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If the time ever comes that I meet my match |
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Take control of my assets |
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********* startin' from scratch |
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Take care of your mother |
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Keep yourself on track |
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Just cause *********s get behind you don't mean they got your back |
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Beware of the serpent |
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Cause there's a time in life the *********er will strike |
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And try to make you loose sight |
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Don't be a fake *********er tryin' to keep *********t real |
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Fill cassettes with idle threats with no guts to kill |
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Son if you ever pull heat |
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Then use it |
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If you got a chance to walk away |
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Then do it |
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Total domination takes full concentration in all situations |
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A solid foundation |
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Verse 3 |
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You are the foundation |
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Begining of a new generation |
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I remember hospital hallway pacin' |
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I was anxious as ********* to see your face *********ne |
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Only to find that yours looked like mine |
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So it's like I'm livin' twice at the exact same time |
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In this life you can't press stop |
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Then press rewind |
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Gotta live to the fullest never follow behind no man |
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Have your own plan, expand your mind |
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Ain't no paper thin game to raise wannabe thugs |
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This is nothing but love |
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Via sattelite Muggs |
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Take heed when it's your turn to bring new life |
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Make sure it's the woman you gonna make your wife |
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Be prepared for the worst |
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But expect the best |
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No matter where life takes you |
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Come home to the West |
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Survival takes more than just gats and guns |
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That's words to live by |
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From a father to a son |
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Foundation |
