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Lupe Fiasco
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Yeah, yeah, the Kool, turn me up, yeah
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He came back in the same suit that he was buried in
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Similar to the one his grandfather was married in
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Yes, he was still fresh to death
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Bling, two earrings, a chain layin' 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 Hennessey from when his niggaz got reminded
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And poured out liquor in his memory, he didn't mind it
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But he couldn't sip it fast enough
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So the liquor was just fillin' the casket up
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Floatin' down by his feet was the letter from his sister
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Second grade handwritin' 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 mans stuck a swisher
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He had a notion as he laid there soakin'
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He saw that the latch was broken, he kicked his casket open and he
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This life goes passin' you by
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It might go fast if you like
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You born, you lived and you die
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If life goes passin' you by, don't cry
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If you're breakin' the rules, makin' your moves
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Payin' your dues, chasin' 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, he swallowed it
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Workin' like a reverse Archaeologist
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Except, his buried treasure was sunshine
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So when some shine through a hole that he had drove
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It reflected off the gold and almost made some blind
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He grabbed onto some grass and 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 6 months after the shots
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That'd got him in the box, wringin' 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 shoulder
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So with a right hand that was all bones
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And with no reason to stay he decided to walk home, so he
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This life goes passin' you by
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It might go fast if you like
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You born, you lived and you die
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If life goes passin' you by, don't cry
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If you're breakin' the rules, makin' your moves
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Payin' your dues, chasin' the cool
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He begged for some change to get him on the 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 of fact, only thing on his brain was brains
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Yeah and gettin' back in his lane, doin' his thang
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First he had to find something to slang
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Next stop was his block, 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 little niggaz tried to sell him rocks
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It just felt weird, bein' on the opposite
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They figured that he wasn't from there, so they pulled out
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And robbed him with the same gun they shot him with
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Put it to his head and said, "You're scared, ain'tcha?"
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He said, "Hustler for death, no Heaven for a gangsta", and
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This life goes passin' you by
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It might go fast if you like
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You born, you lived and you die
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If life goes passin' you by, don't cry
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If you're breakin' the rules, makin' your moves
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Payin' your dues, chasin' the cool
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Yeah, cool
Lupe Fiasco - The Show Goes On
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