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Same story, same target, different time
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Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind
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Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
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Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind
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Same story, same target, different time
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Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind
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Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
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Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind
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Yo, talk about paying the ultimate price
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Hurricane been incarcerated all of his life
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Started out at like twelve
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Trapped in a belly of hell
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Grew into a man inside of a cell
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Yo, anger just swell up
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At a early age that develop
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Hot head and now it ain't shit y'all could tell him
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They said he's on a road to become a felon
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But instead he swung blows that'll split your melon
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He did his thing and was the king of the ring, undisputed
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Started making noise but they tried to mute it
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They put him through it
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For him to make the system look stupid, [yo]
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They rather look you in the face and shoot it
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And leave your spot looted [or what]
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Or leave your whole life blank futured and caught
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When you scream at it and do it
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With sweat leaking from the outline of your solid
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Don't understand the point that you at
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Or how the hell you came to it?
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Flashback to images of that night, out in Patterson
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They pulled him over heading home from a gathering
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And when they told him the charge it kind of baffled him
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Murder in the first for the champ, we on that again?
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[Chorus]
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Hurricane
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Accuse a Hurricane
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Ain't change a damned shame
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It's life for Hurricane, Hurricane
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Forever, imagine your locked down forever
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Could y'all stand the weather?
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Could you hold it together?
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You tell me that you know the pain
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Yo, imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane
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Forever, imagine your locked down forever
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Could ya'll stand the weather?
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You built for that weather?
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Yo, know what'm saying?
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Know what'm saying?
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You gotta fight for what you believe in
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Nobody knows the troubles seen
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This flick left me wondering
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'What can become of kings and young kids?'
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Summer dream deferred, incident occurred, freedom blurred
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A freedom that would only be retrieved again in words, later on
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The cops, y'all know what they be on
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A nigga's life is like a field that they play upon, away and gone from
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Natural lifer, a soul he had to fight,
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Learn it himself, sleep days, stay up half the night
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Amongst dead man walking, he got afterlife exercising,
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Developing his knack to write
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Never leaving his cell, in this world he trapped himself
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What he loved on the outside world, detached himself
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You know the cards Blacks get dealt by the system
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He drew a picture of freedom with many dimensions
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This picture proved to be bigger than Black and White
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A young soul named Lesra brought him back to life
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It's amazing to a man what a book could do
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And how certain books seem to look for you
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This is the story of a champion's fall and rise
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The story left me wiping my eyes
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Peace are you
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[Chorus]
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Yo, yo, forever, imagine your locked down forever
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Could y'all stand the weather?
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Could you hold it together?
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You tell me that you know the pain
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Yo, imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane
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Forever and ever yo, locked down forever
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Could you stand the weather?
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Yo, yo I can't even explain the pain
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Just imagine if your life was like a hurricane
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Yes, I am the inescapable, the irresistible,
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The unnegotiable, the unchallenged [who dat?]
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I am time
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I scroll in measurements, control the elements,
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I hold the evidence, I tell the story [say what?]
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I am time
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I know no prejudice, I bare no sentiments
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For wealth or settlement, I move forward [who you?]
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I am time
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You can't recover me, conceal or smuggle me,
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Retreat or run from me, crawl up or under me,
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You can't do much for me besides serve
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Me well and have good dividends returned to you
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Or attempt to kill me off and have me murder you
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Many have wasted me but now they are facing me,
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Treated me unfaithfully and now endure me painfully
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Plaintively, I wait to see what history will shape to be,
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Who's hearts will never die inside the sake of me
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Angel's scribe the page for me,
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Keep a full account of all the names for me
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And make a special mark for Hurricane who (?) patiently
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[Chorus]
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Yo, yo, a Hurricane forever,
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Imagine your locked down forever
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Could you stand the weather?
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Could you hold it together?
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I can't even explain the pain
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Imagine if your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane
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Forever, imagine your locked down forever and ever, ever
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Could you hold it together?
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Yo, can't explain the pain with words, know'm saying?
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Just imagine if your life was like a hurricane
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The clouds clashed and the heaven's gave birth to star
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God placed it in a man on the day he was born
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Convicted minutes after, a true natural disaster
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Framed for manslaughter, the Hurricane Carter rising
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From out the south water, like torrential rains
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In the ring no opponent escaped unscathed
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You can't believe the world we live in's injust
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All I see is more proof, there's no place for us
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They had my man Carter locked in a cage, like an animal
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Drive him to the point where the mind work mechanical
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Or works by remote control
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It was done to all of us, they tapped directly into our soul
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Either it's sing-sing, or it's bars around your mind
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There's no where to run, no where to hide
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In a six-by-six a guilty man cries
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For repentance and lost is what innocence is
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Same story, same target, different time
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Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the bilnd
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Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
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Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind
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Same story, same target, different time
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Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind
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Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
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Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind
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[Chorus]
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Your locked down forever
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Could you stand the weather?
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Could you hold it together?
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I can't even explain the pain, know'm saying?
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Your life was like a hurricane, a hurricane
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Forever, imagine behind bars forever
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Could you stand the weather?
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You built for that? Is you cut for that?
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Don't be telling me that you know the pain
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Your life was like a hurricane, yo
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Same story, same target, different time
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Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind
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Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
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Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind
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Same story, same target, different time
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Cyclical reaction from the prisoners of the blind
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Trying to fight time, it's a battle of the mind
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Waiting for redemption, surviving in a bind
Neil Young - "Like A Hurricane" Lyrics (...
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