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I Can Be What I Want To Be
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(Chorus x2)
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I know I can
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Be what i wanna be
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If I work hard at it
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I'll be where I want to be
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(Verse)
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Be be boys and girls listen up
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You can be anything in the world
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In God we trust
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An architect, doctor, or maybe an actress
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But nothin' comes easy it takes much practice
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Like I met a woman who was becoming a star
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She was very beautiful
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Leaving people in awe
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Singin' songs Lina Horn
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But the younger version
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Hung wit' the wrong person
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Got her stunger that heroin
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Cocaine sniffin' up drugs all in her nose
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Could've died so young now looks ugly and old
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No fun cuz now when she reaches for hugs
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People hold they breath
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Cuz she smells of corrosion and death
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Watch the company you keep and the crowd you bring
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Cuz they came to do drugs and you came to sing
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So if you gonna be the best Im'a tell you how
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Put your hands in the air and take the vow
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chorusx2
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(verse 2)
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boys and girls listen again
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this is for grown looking girls who's only ten,
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the ones who watch videos and do what they see
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as cute as can be, up in the clubs with fake i.ds,
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careful 'fore you meet a man with h.i.v.
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you can host a tv like oprah winfrey
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whatever you decide, be careful, some men be rapists
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so act your age, don't pretend to be older than you are,
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give yourself time to grow, you're thinking he can give you wealth
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but so young boys, you could use alot of help you know
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ya thinkin' life's all about smokin' weed and ice,
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you don't wanna be my age and can't read and write
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beggin' different women for a place to sleep at night,
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smart boys turn to men and do whatever they wish
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if you believe you can achieve, then say it like this
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chorusx2
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(verse 3)
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before we came to this country,
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we were kings and queens-never porch monkeys
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there was empires in africa called kush,
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timbuktu, where every race came to get books to learn from black teachers
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who taught greeks and romans, asians arabs, and gave them gold
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when gold was converted to money it all changed
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money then became empowerment for europeans,
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the persian military invaded
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they heard about the gold, the teachings and everything sacred
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africa was almost robbed naked,
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slavery was money, so they began making slaveships
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egypt was the place that alexander the great went
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he was in shock that in the mountains were black faces
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shot off thier nose to impose what basically
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still goes on today you see
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if the truth is told the youth can grow,
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they'll learn to survive, until they gain control
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nobody says you have to be gangsters, hoes
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read more, learn more, change the globe
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ghetto children do your thing
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hold your head up little man you're a king
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young princess when you get your wedding ring
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your man will sing she's my queen
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chorusx2
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oooooo.......
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save the music ya'll
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save the music ya'll
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save the music ya'll
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save the music ya'll
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save the music
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