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A Tree Never Grown
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"1, 2, 3, 4" [x10]
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[88 Keys]
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Yo, this is 88...
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This is for Amadou Diallo
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Rest in peace, you still here
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[Fre]
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Yo, I'm in a brownstone singin like Brownstone
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Bird's eye view wit the bodega
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Know Omega like Rakim
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Thinkin about brother Diallo
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I find it hard to swallow
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Cuz 41 is a hard act to follow
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Who is it, it can happen tomorrow
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Goes down all the time in some African community
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This one just hit closer to home
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Cuz it happen it in our backyard
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This that *shit* bring us closer to home
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They ask "What you writin fo'? What you writin on that paper fo'?"
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Don't ask me nuttin, just tell me
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How is safer got me safe, that's why my raps sour
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My peoples screamin "Black power!" and la razah
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From the Bronx, police bustin, it's redemption time
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[J-Live]
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Now in the squad car, cpr's supposed to be the motto
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But in they minds, they be like "Yo, I'ma do Diallo"
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I guess master's noose was a bitter pill to swallow
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Cuz nowadays, tips ain't the only things that's hollow
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Constitution, 41 more holes in it
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And cops swingin sticks like they tryin to win the pennant
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And stickin sticks places where they ashamed to admit it
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But that's the straw that broke the camel's back
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They gon' get it!!
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[Rubix]
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Possessed by a nervous twitch and itchy writin finger
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41 strokes through the barrel of pen for Amadou
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More than a few of my personal friends
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Since the beginning, it seems like it never ends
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The story, ancient as lyrical allegory and it's all gory
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The Little Shop of City Hall Horrors
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Who bakes infiltrate, agent, provocator mission statement
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Assassinate the Senate candidate, heavenly mandate
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[Chorus: Mos Def]
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We proceeded on a country road
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His mother's eyes withered swoll
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Her child was never comin home
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Said a prayer for his soul
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As the coffin had closed, committed to the earth below
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First seed she would sew, would be a tree never grown
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Shade that was never known
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Who controls the Terrordome, the member hearts made of stone
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Who love only what they own
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[Invincible]
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Stay on your toes for a true bruise description
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Match blue suits, walkin round wit a stick and *edit*
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Ready to blast wit the wrath of a hollow tip
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And the fact is my task is a scholarship
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I feel it in my chest cavitity
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The only death's apathy, so I change it for who's next after me
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And that's the fullest reward
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Keep the face of the lost on my bulletin board
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[Wordsworth]
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Yo yo, it's blue uniform, sirens, names, and badge numbers
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Clubs, walkie-talkies, recipies for bad summers
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Frisked, pissed after I tuck in my stuff
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I really think they just like touchin my *nuts*
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What's real stain they thoughts
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Swear, but they won't say it in court
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All they do is change the report
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Riots, tryin to keep the crowd under control
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They even got shows, Cops, lapd, Highway Patrol yo yo
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[A. L.]
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From the cradle to the grave, they made you a slave
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Brainwash to kill each other, that's the plague that they made
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I search em like readin scripts that could save you today
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White is right, black is wrong, that's the label they gave
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Fryin in hell, applyin jails, they got you dyin in cells
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Triple six in the mix, Levine to? Spell?
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Prepare for the worst, and try to hope for the best
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I take a stare at the hearse, can we cope wit the stress?
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[Kofi Taha]
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I live in the land of punches
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Illegal chokeholds and excessive gunshots
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Where there's one millionaire for every billion empty pot
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And Adolf Guily think we static but he's in for a shock
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They come wit automatics but we flip it
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Use the one, create the four glocks and while stocks get washed
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While school doors get locked and when jobs get blocked
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The confi-dence get's rock
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And when the welfares drop into the jails we stock now
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After Amadou wrestlin wit freedom tacks my mind into a headlock
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But fuck H&are, I'm a true cat
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Refundin power back to our Blocks
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[Chorus:]
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[Tame One]
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Good life, you can bubble or struggle
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Use your brain muscle if you hustle
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Don't let nobody touch you
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Don't even trust the ones that trust you
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Cuz the ones you showin love to might bust
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Seekin as a cancer, my man got shot by Haitians or Jamaicans
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? Wit confrontations and school my mind's racin
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I pride these sensations over this, now I'm hopin this
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We shine for, I never got a chance to rhyme for
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My role models sold bottles and stole cars
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And when they got locked, I accepted all the phone calls
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That's when *niggas* was real
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Back before I had a deal
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Back when people called Villsburg Hooterville
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Ill!!!
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[Jane Doe]
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My mind wonders on melodic jams
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An exotic bird, caged wit the rage and the violence of my words
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The same things I down I turn around and do
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The white cops say *fuck you* but I say fuck you too!
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Truth be totally hypocrites
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And materialistic society, spirituality shunned or
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While young kinds get gunned on
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Hibernatin in projects, which you project-ing
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The pigs is crucifyin but Africans is resurrectin, Jane Doe
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[Grafh]
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Battacky, sends cops to come and catch me
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He better send a runnin back to run and track me
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When I'm runnin through the back streets
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The rat teeth of beast lovin to black me
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Eatin brothers like a picinic color cuz that's sweet
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To lock a man up in prison, the standard of livin
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Thinkin they make a better bred of man
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Than the man when he went in
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Rub up a man for sinnin
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Handcuff his hands to the system, banned from his wisdom
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Wit insanity in him, his mind roams wit like a cyclone
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Damagin victim, his eyes hold savage within him
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Wrath wit the venom, poison his life
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No ointment to boisten the might
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If it's on the left, walk to the right
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Until death, do your part do your life
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Like a boyfriend and wife, because the day times shorter than night
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You know?
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[Chorus:]
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[88 Keys]
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Yo, black is fragile remember that
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Cherish everyday
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Live life to the fullest, aight
A Tree Never Grown - A.L., Fre, Grafh, I...
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