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I feel a weight that's pulling me down, |
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But my reflex is to try to break out, |
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Nature gives fight or flight syndrome, |
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But my feet stay on the ground that's how i've grown, |
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Bred to resist the gravity of anything that's fucking with me, |
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Survivalist instincts through my veins are pounding, |
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Transfused at birth by my urban surroundings. |
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Gravity won't allow me to fly, |
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It pulls me down, the pain, i won't cry, |
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Resistance and drive fueled by hunger, |
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What doesn't kill me makes me stronger. |
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I just can't let shit get to me, |
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Got to reflect back on what pop taught me, |
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To be your own man no matter what, |
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To never back down, and follow your gut, |
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Instinct, something he said that i'd know, |
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Something that i'd carry wherever i go, |
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He told me someday i'd have to fight to be free, |
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And resist the weight of gravity. |
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Calloused hands wipe away tears, |
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Of the pain of a man broken by years, |
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A silent shot that nobody hears, |
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A smoking gun of our own fears, |
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My father worked all his life and for what, |
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Day in, day out, caught in a rut, |
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The pain of apathy, razor-sharp cutting, |
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But i'll make sure he doesn't die for nothing. |