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Spearhead
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I say my prayers every morning just like orange juice
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I crack the crinkles out my body till I'm feeling loose
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I strap my sneakers on my feet like they was combat boots
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they fit my feet like Cinderella when I'm shooting hoops
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Why oh why do memories keep chasing me
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sometimes it makes me want to grab my shit and flee
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sometimes I want to blow my brains to put my life at ease
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but I ain't clocking out I gotta see the seven seas
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please seven's a very lucky number for me
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that was the age when I discovered how good balling could be
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up every morning with the birdies doing little drills
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go to my left go to my right developing mad skills
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how could a love for this game bring so much sadness
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I played with brothas with so much badness
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but now they gone I sing a song pop a three
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from the top of the key in they memory
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(Chorus)
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Why oh Why do memories be chasing me
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sometimes it makes me want to grab my shit and flee
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even in seasons when it's another color sport
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I still be memorizing lines out on the basketball court singing
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Why oh Why do memories be chasing me
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sometimes it makes me want to grab my shit and flee
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even in seasons when it's another color sport
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I be remembering my partners on the basketball court
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Do you remember runnin' the court in September
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me and my homies be down for whoever
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would come along and try to send us to the showers
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from the game that we'd been dominating' there for hours
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all day to be more specific east to west
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from Atlantic to Pacific fools would come round
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to get down and try to take our crown
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but we would hold our ground and we would never back down
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old timers new timers would get in line there
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and take a seat there and try to prepare
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but oh no! there was no chance when we was in the zone
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we was alone at the top we had hops we got props
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and when we needed to we busted chops
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wipe the court with your game like we was using mops
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what ever happened to the super hoopers in the park
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I reminisce while shootin' solitary after dark
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(Chorus)
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Brother see came fresh from out of town
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and he had handles and like McDonald's he could clown ya
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dribbling baby bounces between drinking forty ounces
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knock ya on your heels and do circles like he was Curly Neal
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but oh no, the liquor got quicker to his head and he said
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"I think I musta placed some stupid bets"
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he hit me up for some cash
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there was a car crash a splash and then the brother made a mad dash
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Rob oh Rob his whole life was like a roller coaster
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but on the court he looked like a Dr. J poster
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flying high with an Afro blowing in the wind
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wiping Windex, index finger rolls off the glass
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then swish through the net jump a Corvette with a triple pirouette
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but off the court he had a few temptations copulations
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no moderations by 24 he had 3 pregnations
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last check crack intoxications
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so many other brothers gone from this dimension
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and none of those who got hurt receive a pension
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give a Bup! Bup! to those locked up in detention
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memories too many dimension
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and we say, one more time... one more time
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(Chorus)
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