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Barbed Wire
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Kendrick Lamar
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One time
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Reporting live
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Compton, California
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Verse 1:
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Have you ever felt like, like you never get life?
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Like you never get right? Sort of like a black sheep
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Back down, backing ultra dreams like some bad sleep
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Chasing for the wind but you never win the track meet
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Oh what a cold world for a broke nigga--it's bitter
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And life's a bitch, don't hit women so I bit her
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I struck enough pain let her know I wasn't playin'
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I was so sincere like Nas first name
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And back, they tell me
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It's very difficult to see 25 and if I survive I'd probably wouldn't sell it
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My opportunities are low because my brown complexion floats in the ghetto rather in some heels like Giuseppe's
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They want me unemployed, until I hit the streets for fillin' voids of broke D-Boys sellin' weed
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Fuckin' up my prestige, till I live with the blues
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BB King or the neighbors of Snoop
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Chorus:
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That's why I'm in the club like fuck it, though
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They say it's only one life, life, life
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And if you say I can't live comfortable
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Ima tell you that's a lie, lie, lie
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So while I hold this bottle of Ciroc with a hand full of ass
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Celebrate the very day that I get past
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Moving barbed wire
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We are, we are (fight!)
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We are, we are (truth!)
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through barbed, through barbed, (wire!)
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we will, we will break (through!)
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So while I hold this bottle of Ciroc with a hand full of ass
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Celebrate the very day that I get past
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Moving barbed wire
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Verse 2:
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Have you ever felt like, like you never get life
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Like you never did right? Sort of like a black sheep
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Tryna get away from the World stereotype
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Barbed wire got a barricade on your destiny
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She desperately in need of some inspiration, see what the people sayin'
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She gon have a baby then flee from her education
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At the age of 16, credit card scam schemes
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See a scar on her eye, boyfriend brutality
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She will never get by, no how no way
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Where every recipientt, property of the state
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Housing, Section 8, corner store, prostitute
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The owner bout to prosecute, the niggas tell her that she's cute
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Hood rat trash, 6 baby-da
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This and this baby-ca
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it's due to the family,
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Chillin' in pajamis
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Waitin' on the first
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Fast forward spillin' drinks on her fur
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Chorus:
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That's why she in the club like fuck it, though
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They say it's only one life, life, life
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And if you say she can't live comfortable
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She gon tell you that's a lie, lie, lie
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So while she up in VIP pourin' Merlot in the glass
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Celebrate the very day that she get past
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Moving barbed wire
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We are, we are (fight!)
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We are, we are (truth!)
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Through the, through barbed (wire!)
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We will, we'll break (through!)
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So while she in the VIP pourin' Merlot in the glass
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Celebrate the very day that she get past
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Moving barbed wire
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Verse 3:
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Have you ever felt like, you finally got life
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You finally got right? No longer a black sheep
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Livin' off ya dreams like Christina uh-Milian in the front seat
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Of a convertible eloping' to get married
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What a feeling of overcoming the odds
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It's like I just hit the lottery, my God
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There must be a God
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Cuz golly, you done made it through the fight while squabbling, I lead
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Now ya lifestyles lookin' up and you escaped the crooked cops and you ain't have to kill a nigga just to make a couple bucks
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And she ain't have to go and fuck on anybody for a dollar, making good decisions
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Got an independent business mind
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And both of ya'll are steady grindin, doin' it the legal way just tryna make a decent pay on every second of the day
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But they won't give you the credit, disses out they mouth
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You must enter the Illuminati just to ball out
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Chorus:
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In the club like fuck it, though
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They say it's only one life, life, life
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And if you say they can't live comfortable
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They gon tell you that's a lie, lie, lie
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So even though you overcame doubt and ya livin' ain't bad
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Know there's a barbed wire that's always in your past
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Moving barbed wire
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and everybody say
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cause i won't get caught again
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and i'm here to stop the trends, you can catch me if you try
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disappear into the night and I'm gone
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Girl: "So you made it past all the barbed wires?"
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Kendrick: "There's just one left." *Gun shot*
Kendrick Lamar - Barbed Wire
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