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Blood On The Leaves
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Kanye West
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[Intro: Nina Simone]
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Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees
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Blood on the leaves
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[Verse 1]
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I just need to clear my mind now
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It's been racin' since the summertime
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And I'm holdin' down the summer now
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And all I want is what I can't buy now
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Cause I ain't got the money on me right now
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And I told you to wait
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Yeah I told you to wait
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So I'mma need a little more time now
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Cause I ain't got the money on me right now
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And I thought you could wait
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Yeah, I thought you could wait
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These bitches surroundin' me
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All want somethin' out me
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Then they talk about me
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Would be lost without me
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We could've been somebody
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Thought you'd be different 'bout it
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Now I know you not it
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So let's get on with it
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[Verse 2]
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We could've been somebody
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'Stead you had to tell somebody
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Let's take it back to the first party
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When you tried your first molly
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And came out of your body
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And came out of your body
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Running naked down the lobby
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And you was screamin' that you love me
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Before the limelight tore ya
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Before the limelight stole ya
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Remember we were so young
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When I would hold you
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Before the glory
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I know there ain't wrong with me
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Something strange is happening
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[Verse 3]
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You could've been somethin'
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We could've ugh, we could've been somebody
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Or was it all our first party
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When we tried our first molly
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And came out of our body
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And came out of our body
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Before they call lawyers
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Before you tried to destroy us
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How you gon' lie to the lawyers?
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It's like I don't even know ya
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I gotta bring it back to the 'Nolia
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[Bridge]
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Fuck them other niggas cause I'm down with my niggas
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Fuck them other niggas cause I'm down with my niggas
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Fuck them other niggas cause I'm down with my niggas
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I ride with my niggas, I'll die for my...
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[Verse 4]
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To all my second string bitches, tryna get a baby
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Trying to get a baby, now you talkin' crazy
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I don't give a damn if you used to talk to Jay-Z
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He ain't with you, he with Beyoncé, you need to stop actin' lazy
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She Instagram herself like #BadBitchAlert
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He Instagram his watch like #MadRichAlert
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He only wanna see that ass in reverse
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Two-thousand-dollar bag with no cash in your purse
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Now you sittin' courtside, wifey on the other side
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Gotta keep 'em separated, I call that apartheid
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Then she said she impregnated, that's the night your heart died
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Then you gotta go and tell your girl and report that
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Main reason cause your pastor said you can't abort that
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Now your driver say that new Benz you can't afford that
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All that cocaine on the table you can't snort that
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That going to that owing money that the court got
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On and on that alimony, uh, yeah-yeah, she got you homie
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'Til death but do your part, unholy matrimony
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