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Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down
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And open doors to hurtin' people like me
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People like me, people like me
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People like me, people like me
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Is it fair to say that I am stressing out?
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I'm stationed in Iraq and they won't let me out
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My homeys said I was stupid for even joining
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My counselor said that my decision was disappointing
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How she had good slate for good state colleges
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And with my good grades it wouldn't have been a problem
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But they don't understand just the power of significance
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More than brilliance and certainly more than dividends
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And if you ask me now, would I repeat it?
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Would I fight in a war I don't believe in?
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Well, the answer is if not me where the cancer is
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They been doing this before Jesus of Nazareth
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And after all this time it is still deadly hazardous
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And Bush isn't really being all that inaccurate
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When he says, we're winning the war 'cause it's staggering
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But thats 'cause we're killing everybody that we see
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And most of us soldiers we can barely fall asleep
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And time and time again I'm feeling incompetent
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'Cause my women back home, we're constantly arguing
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And I must be crazy 'cause all I'm obsessing with is
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Her MySpace and face book and who's commenting
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I swear to God if she's cheatin' I'm doin' her ass in
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I can tell with one look and it came to me
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Sounding something like a song hook, sayin'
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Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down
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And open doors to hurtin' people like me
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People like me, people like me
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People like me, people like me
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Meet Sarah, the proud mother of young Sebastian
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Suburban professional went to college in Ashton
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In self pity she suddenly cried
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Would my life be important if I suddenly died?
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Neighbors saying what a nice women she was
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Keeping mostly to herself ever since the divorce
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And with the company down sizin' and the fall and all
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She really shouldn't take it that personal at all
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It wasn't her boss who had his eyes on her thighs
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And got a rise from her risin' off the desk though
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And despite rememberin' sayin' no plenty of times
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It was still a damn surprise being let go
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And now stuck with a mortgage she can't afford
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And too educated to blame the corporate world
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She got on welfare and hated it, case work a power trippin'
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And generally being degraded
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If nothing else she was treated sick
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And ineffective which is the worst thing
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That she'd been left with
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Damn, no magic from David Blane
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No painter to pain this pain
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No Morgan Freeman to narrate the shame
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So she took refuge and prayer
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Kinda like findin' God in the phone book
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And it came to her
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Sounding something like a song hook, sayin'
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Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down
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And open doors to hurtin' people like me
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People like me, people like me
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People like me, people like me
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I guess, I told you about myself to a degree
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Just by telling you about people like me
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But people like me they speak politely
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They don't start no beef or piece of white meat
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Everybody gotta eat but everybody doesn't
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Which is why I want to tell you about my favorite cousin
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He and I grew up where the sun shines
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And we both partook with the gun crimes
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And we both liked American rap rhymes
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Even though we didn't understand one line
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If you remember my line of notes in my last album
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I talked about a close call with a grenade
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I think we both must have been about seventh grade
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But don't panic we both survived without damage
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But we developed a bond like we survived the Titanic
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So when the country became frantic
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My mother tried to get us out, planned it
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To the last detail except the plan got derailed
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'Cause there wasn't enough money for the plane tickets
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How bitter when my mother had to chose who to take with her
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So my cousin got left in the war and that's just hard to recall
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But now I take refuge and prayer
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Kinda like finding God in the phone book it came to me
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Sounding something like a song hook, sayin'
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Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down
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And open doors to hurtin' people like me
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People like me, people like me
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People like me, people like me
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Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down
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And open doors to hurtin' people like me
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People like me, people like me
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People like me, people like me
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