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This Can't Be Life
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Jay-Z
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See I was, born in sewage, born to make bomb music
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Flow tight like I was born Jewish
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Used the streets as a conduit, I kept arms
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38 longs inside my mom's buick
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At any given moment shawn could lose it, be on the news
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Iron cuffs, arms through it, or stuffed with embalmin fluid
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Shit, I'm going through it, mom dukes too
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Tears streamin down her pretty face, she got her palms to it
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My life is gettin too wild
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I need to bring some sort kinda calm to it
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Bout to lose it voices screaming "don't do it!"
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It's like '93, '94, bout the year
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That big and mag dropped; and "illmatic" rocked
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Outta every rag drop, and the west had it locked
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Everybody doing 'em, I'm still scratchin on the block
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Like "damn, I'ma be a failure"
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Surrounded by thugs, drugs, and drug, paraphernalia
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Cops courts, and their thoughts is to derail us
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Three time felons in shorts with jealous thoughts
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Tryin figure where your mail is, guesstimate the weight you sellin
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So they can send shots straight to your melon wait!
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It gets worse, baby momma water burst
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Baby came out stillborn, still I gotta move on
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Though my heart still torn, life gone from her womb
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Don't worry, if it was meant to be, it'll be, soon
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This can't be life, this can't be love
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This can't be right, there's gotta be more, this can't be us
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This can't be life, this can't be love
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This can't be right, there's gotta be more, this can't be us
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Chill dog
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Second oldest born, from Michelle brown my mother
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Hell bound, grew with two sisters and one brother
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Pop wasn't around, so many stories that's another
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I'm thinking damn, how my older sister gon' make me tougher
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When steel sharpens steel, I'ma keep it real
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I'm tired of trying to hide my pain behind the syrups and pills
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Dead to the world, stretched out like a corpse for real
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Y'all niggaz thinking what y'all reading in the source is real
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What my life like, you looking at the source, it's real
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What your life like? mine dog, of course it's real
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Passin judgment, you niggaz second-guessin beans
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Cause you don't eat swine don't make you amin
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Dog you know a couple suras, out the qur'an
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I guess you all on your deen and I ain't on mine
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Stop that akki, 'fore I send shots though your body
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Make 'em feel feel hell on earth before allah drop thee
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I feel the line's drawn here, nuttin more can stop me
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Till them feds pick me up, or them boys pop me
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There's only three things that make mac not act like beans
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Amatullah tisha, po aldin, samir amin
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My seeds dog, gotta teach 'em that before I leave dog
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Shit I know that I'ma see 'em when I leave dog
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I come back in the afterlife
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Like fuck it I done touched hell twice what's the meanin?
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This can't be life, this can't be love
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This can't be right, there's gotta be more, this can't be us
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This can't be life, this can't be love
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This can't be right, there's gotta be more, this can't be us
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Now as I walk into the studio, to do this with jig'
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I got a phone call from one of my nigs
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Said my homeboy reek, he just lost one of his kids
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And when I heard that I just broke into tears
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And see in the second hand you don't really know how this is
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But when it hits that close to home you feel the pain at the crib
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So I called mine, and saddened my wife with the bad news
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Now we both depressed, countin our blessings cause brad's two
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Prayin for young souls to laugh at life through the stars
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Lovin your kids just like you was ours
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And I'm hurtin for you dog, but ain't nobody pain is like yours
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I just know that heaven'll open these doors
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And ain't no bright side to losin life but you can view it like this
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God's got open hands homey, he in the midst, of good company
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Who loves all and hates not one
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And one day you gon' be wit your son
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I could've rapped about my hard times on this song
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But heaven knows I woulda been wrong
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I wouldn'ta been right, it wouldn'ta been love
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It wouldn'ta been life, it wouldn'ta been us
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This can't be life
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This can't be life, this can't be love
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This can't be right, there's gotta be more, this can't be us
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This can't be life, this can't be love
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This can't be right, there's gotta be more, this can't be us
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This can't be life
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