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Jay-Z
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My life
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Is in the arms of the man upstairs
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Through trials and tribulations
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He'll always be there
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You see I know he loves me
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And I know he cares
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And he'll bever put more on me
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Than I can bear
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[Verse 1]
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Is it a blessing to live or a blessing to die?
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Let me finish out this hell with no questions why
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I should be happy I'm on and dressing fly
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But is the game changing me for the extra pie
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If you could look into the life I live
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Three sixty catching up to all the trife I did
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Got my people up north trying to slice the bid
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While I'm in love with a nigga with a wife and kid
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Maybe if my pops ain't abandon me
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I wouldn't let so many niggas take advantage of me
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Using me some even put their hands on me
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I wonder what the most high got planned for me
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My life line getting shorter when I look in my palms
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Swore I'll be nothing like my biological mom
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She ain't raise me so naturally I never felt a bond
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At 16 got my GED never saw a prom
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[Chorus]
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I been weak and I been strong
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I been through the fire, I been through the storm
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Try to do right and I know I do wrong
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Just be happy for me when my life is gone
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Cause no more hurt and no more tears
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There'll be no more pain and no more fears
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No more people in my face that's not sincere
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So smile 4 me when I'm no longer here
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[Verse 2]
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At a young age I let the world turn me out
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Pellets and purple haze been burnt me out
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A hard knock life is all I learned about
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Trying to eat the only thing I be concerned about
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Telling my youth everything happens for a reason
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Let him know ain't that his father wanted to leave him
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If it wasn't for the streets he'd still be breathing
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Trying to raise him myself but I know he need him
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Me and my seed used to live off mostly welfare
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Only two checks a month for us both to share
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I remember making sure that the coast was clear
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So I could boost us some muthafucking clothes to wear
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Had to hustle 'cause them food stamps just wasn't enough
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Upstate back to Broadway gott to go re-up
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All this fast cash only turned the heat up
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Can't afford to get knocked but who gonna feed us
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Chorus
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[Verse 3]
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Can't shake these thoughts of suicide
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Anyone I ever loved or was close to died
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Ones I trusted or thought was being true lied
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A lifetime of tears but only a few I cried
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Try to take my past stick it up on a shelf
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But my actions stem from all the pain I felt
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I'm just trying to make the best out the hand I dealt
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If I fall who can I turn to for help
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Hope my man with me or with my health
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Will he be there through good and bad sickness and health?
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Does he want the real me or somebody else?
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I been in wars just so I don't jurt myself
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Now that I'm on most can't stand me now
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They was happy when I rocked all them hand me downs
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When I need them funny how they can't be found
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That's why the most high's my only family now
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Chorus
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