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The Cool
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Lupe Fiasco
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[Talking]
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Yeah...
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Yeah...
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The cool.
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Turn me up
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Uh-huh..
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Yeah..
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He came back
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In the same suit that he was buried in
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Similar to the one his grand father was married in
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Yes... He was still fresh to death
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Bling, two ear-rings, a chain laying on his chest
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He still had it 'cause they couldn't find it
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And the bullets from his enemies sat like two inches behind it
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Smelled the Hennesy from when his niggas got reminded
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And poured out liquor in his memory, he didn't mind it, But...
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He couldn't sip it fast enough
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So the liquor was just filling the casket up
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Floating down by his feet was the letter from his sister
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Second Grade hand-writing simply read "I miss ya"
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Suit jacket pocket held his baby daughter's picture
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Right next to it one of his man's stuck a swisher
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He had a notion as he laid there soaking
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Saw that the latch was broken, he kicked his casket open
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And he...
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[Chorus:]
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This life goes passing you by
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It might go fast if you lie
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You go and you live then you die...
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O-oh-oh-ohh
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If life goes passing you by
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Don't cry
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If you breaking the rules
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Making your moves
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Paying your dues...
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Chasing the cool
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Not at all nervous as he dug to the surface
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Tarnished gold chain is what he loosened up the earth with
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He used his mouth as a shovel to try and hollow it
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And when he couldn't dirt spit... Swollowed it
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Working like a.. Hmm.. Reverse archaeologist
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Except.. His buried treasure was sunshine
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So when some shined through a hole that he had drove
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It reflected off the gold and almost made son blind
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He grabbed on to some grass, he climbed
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Pulled himself up out of his own grave and looked at the time
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On the watch that had stopped six months after the shots
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That had got him in the box wringing Henny out his socks
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Figured it was hours because he wasn't older
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Used some flowers to brush the dirt up off his shoulders - so..
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With a right hand that was all bones and no reason to stay
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Decided to walk home
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So he..
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[Chorus:]
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He begged for some change to get him on a train
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"Damn that nigga stank", is what they complained
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Tried to light the blunt but it burst into flames
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Caught the reflection in the window of what he became
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A long look... Wasn't shook, wasn't ashamed
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Matter fact only thing on his brain was brains.. Yeah
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And getting back in his lane, doing his thang
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First he had to find something to slang
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Next stop was his block
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It had the same cops
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Walked right past the same spot where he was shot
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Shocked that some lil' niggas tried to sell him rocks
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It just felt weird being on the opposite
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They figured that he wasn't from there
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So they pulled out and robbed him
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With the same gun they shot him with
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Put it to his head and said "You scared ain't ya?"
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He said: "Hustler for death. No heaven for a gangsta."
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[Chorus:]
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