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08 - Can I Live
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Jay-Z
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Geyeah, Roc-A-Fella
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We invite you to somethin' epic y'all know?
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Well, we hustle out of a sense of, hopelessness
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Sort of a desperation
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Through that desperation, we 'come addicted
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Sorta like the fiends we accustomed to servin'
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But we feel we have nothin' to lose, so we offer you, well, we offer our lives
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What do you bring to the table?
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While I'm watchin' every nigga watchin' me closely
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My shit is butter for the bread they wanna toast me
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I keep my head, both of them where they supposed to be
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Hoes'll get you side tracked then clap from closed feet
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I don't sleep, I'm tired, I feel wired like codeine, these days
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A brother gotta admire from four fiends away
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My pain wish it was quick to see, from sellin' 'caine
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'Til brains was fried to a fricaisse, can't lie
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At the time it never bothered me, at the bar
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Gettin' my thug on properly, my squad and me
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Lack of respect for authority, laughin' hard
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Happy to be escapin' poverty, however brief
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I know this game got valleys and peaks, expectation for dips
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Four percent pertation we stack chips
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Hardly the youth I used to be, soon to see a millin' no more
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Big Willie my game has grown, prefer you call me William
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Illin' for revenues, Rayful Edmond like Channel 7 news
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Round seven jewels, hand dead in the mic
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Forgettin' all I ever knew, convenient amnesia
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I suggest you call my lawyer, I know the procedure
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Lock my body, can't trap my mind easily
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Explain why we adapt to crime
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I'd rather die enormous than live dormant that's how we on it
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Live at the main event, I bet a trip to Maui on it
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Presidential suites my residential for the weekend
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Confidentially speakin' in codes since I sense you peekin'
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The INXS rental, don't be fooled, my game is mental
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We both out of town dog, what you tryin' to get into?
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Viva, Las Vegas, see ya, later at the crap tables
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Meet me by the one that starts a G up
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This way no fraud Willie's present gambling they re-up
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And we can have a pleasant time, sippin' margaritas
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Ge-ge-geyeah, can I live?
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Can I live?
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My mind is infested, with sick thoughts that circle
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Like a Lexus, if driven wrong it's sure to hurt you
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Dual level like duplexes, in unity, my crew and me
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Commit atrocities like we got immunity
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You guessed it, manifest it in tangible goods
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Platinum Rolexed it, we don't lease
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We buy the whole car, as you should
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My confederation, dead a nation, explode on detonation
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Overload the mind of a said patient
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When it balls to steam, it comes to it
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We all fiends gotta do it, even righteous minds go through this
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True this, history school us to spend our money foolish
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Bond with jewelers and watch for intruders
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I stepped it up another level, meditated like a Buddhist
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Recruited lieutenants with Ludacris
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Dreams of gettin' cream let's do this, against TDS
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So I keep one eye open like, CBS, ya see me stressed right?
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Can I live? Can I live? Can I live? Can I live?
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Ha-hah, Roc-A-Fella y'all
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