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This desire
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I come home high, and she start to cry
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I can't take it
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A brand new excuse does me no use
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That won't make it
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She at home with the kids, this is no way to live
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What can I say?
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I know it's surreal, but I'm a hard-headed still
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Do things my way
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And it's so strong, so strong
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It's like I'm dying
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Trying to hold on
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My body says oh-no, oh, out there
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Flying, the price that I pay for the game that I play
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Ain't no game at all
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I'm up in the clouds, and I'm spiraling down
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Nothing breaks the fall
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And it's so strong, so strong
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It's like I'm dying
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Try to hold on
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My body says oh-no, oh, out there
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Flying
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Sounds of the sufferers pray
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I come home high, and she start to cry
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I can't take it
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A brand new excuse does me no use
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That won't make it
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She at home with the kids; this is no way to live
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What can I say?
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I know it's surreal, but I'm a hard-headed still
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Black Dante and it's so strong
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So strong
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So strong
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So strong
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I'm out there, flying
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Flying
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Flying
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Flying
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This game is fantastic, desire
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Killers, this life, this life
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Lovers, this life, this life
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Hustlers, this life, this life
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Thieves, this life, this life
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Gamblers, this life, this life
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Niggaz, crackers, children, mothers, fathers, lovers, neighbors, hungry
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Full, the beautiful, the stars, the distance, the close, the stars
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The heavens, this life
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The floor, this life, this life
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The high, this life
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The beneath, this life, this life
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All, all, everywhere, everywhere, anywhere, somewhere, home
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Come on, this how it goes on
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Ghetto people in the world today, get up!
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Ha! Look alive, breathe, woo!
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Ha! How it goes
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Mother, mother
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Head in her hands
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Her first born son dead in her hands
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The whole thing was a setup, a scam
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They knew it was set up and planned
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Niggas he worked with wet him and ran, and that's,
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Brother, brother
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But, son, I don't see no brother hood
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All I see is thugger hood
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Get rich and fuck the hood
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All they want is some good smoke from the hood
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Lookin' for the shorty good stroke from the hood
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That's how they touch the hood
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But when I touch the hood, I'll make it brighter, black
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Because I'm brighter, black
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And I'm so black I'm bright, shine through the blackest night
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Shine when I'm live, shine via satellite
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Shout in the hood, 'we get the picture.'
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'Cause every time you out in the hood, you got photographers wit' ya
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What's going on? Ha!
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Understand this is real life
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This how it goes on, this how it goes on
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It keep going on, this how it goes on
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Ghetto people, look alive, get free
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Get involved, remain to breathe
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Ha! Woo!
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If Marvin was alive now, wow
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What would I say to him?
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Where could I start?
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How could I explain to him?
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I know the minor world would probably look strange to him
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Would he feel like today had a place for him?
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Global imprisonment, sickness, indifference
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When he said, 'Save the babies,' was we listenin'?
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When he said, 'Mercy, mercy,' did he really know
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That decades later we'd still be killin' folks?
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Or did he hope that we would realize
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That we the first, the son of Earth
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The moon and stars, the great beyond
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We black and proud, we brave and strong
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We raise it up, we quiet storm, forever fresh
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And keepin' on
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Ha! Ghetto people, look alive and free, ya get real
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This how it goes on, and you say, you say [Repeat: x2]
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This how it goes on
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Ghetto people, look alive and free, and breathe! Ha!
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Hold the beat! Stop the beat! Drop the beat! [Repeat: x3]
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Hold the beat! Stop the beat! Got the beat!
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There ain't nothin' to be afraid of
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Ghetto people,, look alive and free, ya get real
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This how it goes on
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This how it goes on, keep goin' on
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This how it goes on
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Now breathe!
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Marvelous, marvelous, marvelous, Marvin modern marvel
MOS DEF: Modern Marvel
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