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Exodus 5.1
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[Intro:]
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Even the black folk who got big money, they still fraid-afraid*
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They still scared. So they become well adjusted to in-injustice
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So they walk around almost like peacocks
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Look at me, look at me, my achievements and so forth
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And you can hear Curtis Mayfield saying
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"Peacocks strut because they can't fly."
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Nobody wanna be an eagle. Why? Cause they shoot eagles
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[Rhymefest: {*talking*}]
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Behold, the cry of the ghetto is coming for them
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And I have seen the oppression and heard their cries
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Thus the voice came to me and said, "I am, who I am."
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And I have sinned to set my people free
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[Verse 1:]
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What's the closest you ever been to death?
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You ever let your soul levitate over your body to watch you rest?
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Or put a gun to your head so you can play Roullette?
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Or take a whole bottle of pills till you felt no stress?
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What's the closest you ever been to life?
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You ever got a felony charge because the whole jury is white?
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Or seen a child, born on crack, cry through the night?
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The only bottle that he want is the pipe
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Man, what's the closest you ever been to being rich, Aspen ski trips?
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This is the Mafia, how many chicks you want Three 6?
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Bottles floatin' around the club, the club is sea sick
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You feelin' like the pharaohs in Egypt
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Feelin' like men
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Feelin' like Ken
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Feelin' like the Hurricane Katrina shit will never ever happen again
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Feelin' like you travelin' home
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[Rhymefest talking]
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Let's all turn to Exodus. 5-1
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[Verse Two]
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What's the closest you ever been to your family?
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Your pops locked up, your mama beat you, now you live with your granny
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Your streets are closer to you then your uncle or auntie
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Fuck school, it's time for plan B
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You know what that is
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Holdin' the heat
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Lettin' it squirt
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Puttin' in work
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Tryin' to find a Heaven on Earth
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I pray to God and the Devil in church
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I'ma worship whoever help me first
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Folks
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What's you know 'bout trust?
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You ever got locked up and had the prosecutor say, "You in luck.
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Tell us, who gave you the dope? Who gave you the pistol.
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Who told you to shoot it?"
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Think smart, and your sentence is cut
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Yeah, that's the same shit that set Fred Hampton up
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And that's the reason them crackers got the clamps in us
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Sell dope little nigger, rap, dance for us
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I saw the cops beat a shorty when his hands was cuffed
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Ohh
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What you know 'bout honor?
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What you know 'bout fear?
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What you know 'bout the power of the subconscious mind and that's why I'm here
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I'm a mountain man
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You can't move me
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Calm or cool me
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I keep a tool right where the jewels be
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And keep my money right were the Jews be
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I keep the pen next to the loose leaf
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With the Koran next to uzi
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Ohhh
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What's the closest you ever been to revenge?
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What's the closest you ever been to your friends?
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Nigga what's the closest you ever been to bein' broke, gettin' evicted again?
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Charlie, what's the closest you been to sin?
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Man, what's the closest you been to havin' a chain flooded with ice?
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This is Vegas so bet your life
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And if, and if
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You never been through none of this in your life
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What's the closest you ever been to Christ?
THE EXODUS SONG
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