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Dead Prez
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Are we addicted to the struggle or committed to success?
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Are we focused on the positive or holdin' onto stress?
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Not sayin' thing's perfect but in many ways I'm blessed
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Learnin' how to take the negative and flip for the best
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Everyday bring challenge, every challenge is a chance to advance
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The power is right in our own hands
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From a youth full of rage, to a wise grown man
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Here I am, life is beautiful now, I overstand
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I'm lookin' forward through my rearview mirror in hindsight
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Gotta be more than just a G if you keepin' your mind right
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Better be ready for the battle or focused on my fight
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I ain't sittin' on no sidelines watchin' them highlights
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I'm gonna begin the game playin' to win but learnin' from setbacks
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And my strengths and weaknesses and masterin' what I'm best at
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Power of refinement until you get right, exact
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It's all in your mind, but that's dependin' where your head's at
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Life is a chess match and lessons come from your mistakes
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Try not to end up in checkmate no matter whatever it takes
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Long as you're breathin then you can be problem solvin'
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Stayin' involved, evolved, world keeps revolvin'
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For the cause be all you can from the mornin' to the sunset
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You never have no regrets
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Took the journey to the edge of your fate and then lept
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Not just understandin' but overstandin' is the objective
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{keep it open, in perspective}
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Just let me be what I am
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Take my destiny in my hands
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By my actions you can judge where I stand
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And I hope one day you'll overstand
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Change come from the inside out
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No fear, live free, let the truth ride out
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I'm steady, shakin' off the shackles of the old me
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Wakin' up daily, meditation, feelin' so free
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They hate to see you change {yeah}
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But they don't understand {no}
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The less you see for yourself, you won't comprehend
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The caterpillar don't care what you think about him
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He was born to be fly, his nature gonna bring it outta him
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By the struggle I was never broken, I was broken open
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I tapped into a source that was omnipotent
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Had to shift my focus to my higher purpose
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ain't nothing weak about broke, it takes a fighter's courage
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People say they want a revolution
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But steady holdin' on the slave ideas, afraid of evolution
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In life we live and learn, it's pratice, theory, practice
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Wisdom is organically grown, its not pre-packaged
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{it's forward baby, never backwards}
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We think we found the absolute truth
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But only to discouver it's a labyrinth, we go from on maze to another
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So many chambers and angles, peelin' the onion layers
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Within it all I see the same gang, just different players
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So I rebel from the prison cell of the pidgeon hole
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And dare to be myself, original
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A man lives on principles --I don't posture to be popluar
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Born to be a leader not just a blind follower
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It's family before the dollar, your priorities in order
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And like Bruce Lee say: "Be the water, be the earth, be the wind and the fire."
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Elevate, take it higher
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It's instinct, fulfill your needs and your desires
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But we go to be compassionate, considerate, a people's advocate
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Eradicatin' ignorance through experience
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The more you live, the more you learn and you grow
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It has a positive effect on all the people you know
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{it's motivation}
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I hope that you will overstand {look at things without any opinion
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otherwise you'll never look at reality
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look at things without any philosophy, without any prejudice, without any dogma, creed or scripture
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just look, without arrogance
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and see the cause of ignorance, it overstands}
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{Change is neccessary to evolution
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The universe contains incredible diversity
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And you cannot experience it all within the confines of one comfortable lifestyle
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Look ahead to what you will think of your life at it's end
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You will probably not want to look back and say it was cozy and dull
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Thus, react positively to what seems to be disaster
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Remember that what seems how to be disaster may be an important step toward evolution
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And may even be identifiable as such at some point in the future
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Every great loss takes you out of a rut and starts life anew
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Be grateful for the time you had and your former happy state
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And look forward eagerly to the new phase
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Information age.}
dead prez - Hip Hop (Digital Video)
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