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Life in the City
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Michael Franti & Spearhead
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Some say you only get so many breaths, when they're gone you'll meet your maker
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Some people always try to cheat their death but when it comes you just cant shake it
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Some people try to make a deal to get a little bit more but they just can't take it
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Some of them end up in debt, when their called they try to fake it
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But one morning the clock will chime and no more birds come flying by
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And temperatures keep rising higher, sixteen bullets come flying by
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Ai yi yi put your hands up high
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Coz' you never know how long your gunna live till' ya die
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They hit you with a missile, hit you with a bomb, hit you with the law try to take your home
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Break into your house in the middle of the night, track you on a cell phone by satellite
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Stopped N.Y. time you're in your car
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Search your body search your home an' listenin' in on your phone calls
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Still no politician got enough balls, lining the people up against the wall
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When the truth comes out all hell will call and someday Guantanamo will fall
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Until that day we all will ride on
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[Chorus]
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Ai yi yi put your hands up high
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'Coz you never know how long your gunna live till' ya die
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That's life in the city, that's life in the city yeah
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That's life in the city, mad world in the city
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Some holdin' on, so damn gone their whole lives livin' with their TV on
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Then radio play the same 10 songs, set your clock by which ones on
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And watching the news try to see whats wrong, find somebody else to blame it on
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Hope they never come and research you coz' your grandmother was an immigrant too
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So if you love somebody better tell them so
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'Coz you never ever ever no when they gonna go
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If they love you back, just give thanks
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Can't keep love like money in the bank
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[Chorus]
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You never know, You never know, its gonna get you
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