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The Roots
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[** UK, Japan, iTunes Bonus Track:]
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[** feat. Truck North:]
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[Verse 1: ~Truck North~]
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Yeah, through the sirens, the lights is blinding*
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Battle cries sound off, warriors dying
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Last call at the bar for snakes and tyrants
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Hands up, that's a massacre the cops kept firing
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Run amok, keep y'all eternally crying
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Fed up, place red stains on global giants
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The brain of an Orson Welles
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Stuck in a masterpiece, Citizen Kane's personal hell
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It's done, and it's hot where them hustlers dwell
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And the air bears the stench of a corpse's smell
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Homie down on his luck one foot in the jail
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And he down to his last with a quarter to sell
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This right here, world premiere of the last days
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The final paragraphs to the book's last page
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You could feel it coming, no running away
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Let's get free or let's get paid
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Same shit different day
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The cornerstone to where I lay
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It's shattered glass and crack bags where they play
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And scattered ass is passed in ridiculous ways
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These cats Chef like they Isaac Hayes
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Parallel to the grave
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Stuck in the game with no rules
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And we screaming for some water and some edible food
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Man I'm right there, rabbit ears, nothing to lose
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This is what you ain't learning in school
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I'm trying to tell you it's hard
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[Chorus:]
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A loaf of bread, milk and eggs, stick of butter man
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Somebody's mother lies dead in the gutter
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Sheriff down by them heads, talking that gutter
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Tell the kids don't look under those covers, man (2x)
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[Verse 2: ~Back Thought~]
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Check it out
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A child is born, his mother is gone
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He in the middle of it literally, tussling strong
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For his life, the tide high in the eye of the storm
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A mannish boy arrive and the riot is on
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With no spare time to try to respond
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Or prepare times, it's hard not becoming a headline
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Or praying in the night when it's bedtime
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Or laying your head down
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Cuz you already know what it is now
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You know a lot of leaders ain't honest
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And they can't keep a promise
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And I hate to speak about it but it's all freakanomics
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Cramped and proud of it, you amped and you rowdy
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Treading water trying to lift up your head without drowning
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This type of shit can make your heart stop pounding
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But you pushing for the top, too scared to stop
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Now it gets deep, bodies are floating around in the streets
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Lot of people who won't even be around in a week
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Man, get the operation gone, what y'all waiting on?
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We been patient, y'all mo'fuckas taking long
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The television getting all the information wrong
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Doing how they do it getting they mis-education on
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They already late
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Somebody been was ‘posed to regulate
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Instead of wait before they let the levee break
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You try running from the truth but it's giving chase
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I got to ask myself,yo, is any nigga safe?
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[Repeat Chorus:] (3x)
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