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One Day at a Time [Em's Version][#]
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2Pac
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Sometimes it's hard to wake up in the mornin'
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Mind full of demons, I don't wanna hear 'em anymore
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Got me heartbroken, fine, so many babies screamin'
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'Cause they seeing destruction before they a see human being
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So they start smokin' weed, we'll never get our day
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Until we learn to pray, keep our families in shape
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'Cause they all broke and why do ghetto birds die
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Before we learn to fly, somebody else's child caught in guns
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Smokin' weed can all make a change
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So I'm told but I haven't seen the change unfold
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I keep hopin' please, if you prefer to breathe
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Communities in need of people that will lead
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Keep your eyes open now, can only say I'll try
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Until the day I die, I promise to be wise
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With my heart open free, brings only misery
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A way to tragedy, so I stay sucker free
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Only a few chosen, rise, my ghetto queen, rise, don't be afraid to try
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Too many of us died for the door to open wide
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My brother, be wise, stay focused on the prize
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Though everybody dies, we can
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Only learn to take our anger and our hate
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Control our mental state, settle down and just set it straight
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Maybe, we can learn to take a second to pump the brakes
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'Fore we said it, regret it later and let it escalate
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'Cause by then its too just late, there's so much we can take
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And there's only so much someone can swallow and tolerate
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Until the point that he just breaks, snaps and that's all it takes
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You'd think that we was learnin' from other rapper's mistakes but we ain't
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It's plain to go against, with every artist comes
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The image he portrays and a picture that he paints
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But in the midst of all this anger and this angst
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Never once did you hear me say
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I'm a gangster and I ain't hear no complaints
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But I know that I will always continue to grow
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As long as I lead and never follow no one else's shadow
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There will never be another me and that I can guarantee
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That's why, the fuck, I remain sucker free to this day
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The game will never be the same
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No matter how much fame or success they attain
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There will never be another me and no matter what they do
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There will never be another you
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You can search but you'll never find
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You can try to rewind time
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But in your hearts and your minds we will never die
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We are forever alive and we continue growin'
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One day at a time
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Don't be caught in the publicity and caught in the hype
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Rappers are regular people minus money and light
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Searchin' for fortune and fame and super stardom
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All the jewelry, all the cars, whose crew is the hardest
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Now the hip-hop police, the villains is watchin'
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And kids think beef is the only option
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Outlaws born filthy, guilty as charged
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My memories are gonna die but Makaveli lives on
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You think the industry is fun and no pity with guns
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And when your money is up, that's when your enemies come
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So if he died and came back, would he try to save rap?
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We needin' a change, the drama remains
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I spent my whole life, yeah, fightin' myself
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That I can't win so I'm invitin' some help
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Okay and every now and then I take rights from the left
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I'm still just like a kid lookin' for stripes on my belt
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And that there is a fight in itself, so I just pray
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And hope God take a like to myself
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No matter how much I try, stay alive
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I'ma die mad, still standing there in love with my pride
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I heard frivolous beats, we past that
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I'm trynna keep some income comin' in
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And collect on my ass cap
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The rappers in the game ain't changed
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And I finally realized that we not in the same game
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The hatin' will never end so I guess I'll deal wit it
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The 45 with cop killers just some steel wit it
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The streets is military, you gotta be a soldier
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Gotta stay leery and keep your eyes on the rollers
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As they do what they gotta do to shackle and hold us
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So we gotta do, we gotta do to keep rollin'
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One way at a time, keep the faith in your mind
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And we continue growin' one day at a time
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Damn!
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