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This is the scene you been seeing all your life
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The one inside a dream you repeated every night
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For 24 frames every second through the light
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Projected through the screen you been paying for despite
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What you see and what you hear, contrary to your sight
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Everything you ever learned that you never had to live
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Might've heard from a story teller medium
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Pictures, words, scriptures to cinema script
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Writing a verse
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From this city emerges a new generation of babies
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Who came out of the womb, glued to the tube
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With plans and aspirations to prove beyond doubt
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We are stars too, even if it's just cartoons
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My animated hands that I got from the
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Genes of my island native fam I could never not be
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I'm here to make them scream like a Hitchcock dame
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Whether analog, dig it all, shit is all the same
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An American tradition, a narrative for fiction
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A Hamilton for tickets, the public is addicted
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Just think for a second how much we've been conditioned
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To root for the Doughboys, the O-Dogs, the Bishops
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Sided with them villains, in spite of what they heeded
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He said she gotta have it, she said she didn't need it
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And even if she see it, she will probably not believe it
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If it ain't bein' projected in a wide screen theatre
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If it spins on a reel, it's gotta be real
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But 'real' in real life just remind us of film
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And now you saying something's like a movie when it's real
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Like a film's much realer than anything you feel
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In a Cinemetropolis (in a Cinemetropolis)
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In a Cinemetropolis (in a Cinemetropolis)
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In a Cinemetropolis (in a Cinemetropolis)
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In a Cinemetropolis...
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They try to say we bad kids from the start
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Grandchildren of Marx and Coca-Cola, yet quoting Godard
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And you saying that everything is cinema since
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The moving pictures in the center of your living room telling you shit
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Like you'll never be shit, walk away from all your dreams
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Spark up, drop a lighter on a trail of gasoline
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Leading back to the vehicle you crashed before you came
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Never looking back, cut, boom, end of scene
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We've been gunning for that hundred and some change
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The flicks and the flickering flames that been going the same length
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Doing battle with the powers that be
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That'll be no longer in position when the power's getting seized
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So cameras we got redirected from the poor
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I directed for my people, *Lino Brocka with the horn*
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When the brother yelled 'action' it wasn't just for his act
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'Cause he wanted to see the masses get they asses out the door (get up)
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My marvelous marksmanship is sharp, shit is hard
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But we make it look not, we auteurs
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The Godfather poster on the wall, 14
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With a movie in my head, writing's the next thing
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So we shot y'all 35 millimeter rockstars
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How about some hardcore senior to your sophomores
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Flyer than a Concorde landing on your concourse
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Rolling with the vanguard, burning down your arthouse
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If it's spinning on a reel, it's gotta be real
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But 'real' in real life just remind you of film
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And now you saying something's like a movie when it's real
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Blade running like a samurai, killing himself
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In a Cinemetropolis (in a Cinemetropolis)
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In a Cinemetropolis (in a Cinemetropolis)
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In a Cinemetropolis (in a Cinemetropolis)
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In a Cinemetropolis...*
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