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Life in Marvelous Times
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Bright moments
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Bright moments always come back vivid.
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The fifth great was epic citywide test pressure
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The pre-crack era!
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Mr. Schollmen, what a prick, attitude matches wardrobe, uglier then sin.
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This is Bed Stuy 82'
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9th floor three tiny rooms one view.
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Buck-town, Roosevelt house
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They green grass is green
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Our green grass is brown.
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Shots rang my phone wasn't touch tone
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A heavy beef in the street
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ET had to flee
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Grey heavens! good grief!
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Hungry bellies!
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Bright gold on they teeth!
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The windows on the Ave look like sad eyes
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They fix their sharp gaze on you when you pass by
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And if you dare to stand, you can see em cry
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You can watch em scowl
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Feel them prowl
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Wall and study every inch about you
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Fast math measuring what you amount to
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The laughter, the screams!
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The numeral, the song of Psalms
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The book of dreams!
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Ends don't meet where the arms can't reach
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Mean streets
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Even when its free it ain't cheap.
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On going saga, terminal diagnosis,
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Basic survival requires super heroics.
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No space in the budget for a cake
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It's when you gotta fly by night to save the day
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Crash-landings routinely happen
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Some survive, others never rise from the ashes.
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Watching asphalt and observing the Sabbath.
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Creates an ecstatic and there you have it
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From teenage love
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Praying in tongue
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Strange fruit, batty boots and native drums
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From hence I come
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So here we go
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Signs and wonders all along the road
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Some lies open
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Some lies close
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Some stretchers role with no lies at all.
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Some riders don't know what they riding for
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Hands on the wheel and their mind is gone
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Wherever you ride, whatever your name,
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This raw cold life is a beautiful thing
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And we are alive in amazing times
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Delicate hearts, diabolical minds
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Revelations, hatred, love and war.
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And more and more and more and more
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And more of less than ever before
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It's just too much more for your mind to absorb
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It's scary like hell, but there's no doubt
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We can't be alive in no time but now!
Mos Def - Life in Marvelous Times
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