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Sometimes I wonder
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Man, how long is it gon' be for my people to come out
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Man we strugglin, it's hard sometimes, but
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Tomorrow's better than yesterday, uhh
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[The Game]
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I was, born in the slums, struggled from day one
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Ray Charles vision, blinded by the light from the sun
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No navigation, no sense of direction, darker complexion
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Made it hard to live; dad, how you fathered your kids?
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Stranded on the highway of life, left us out to die, left us out to dry
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Shhhh, I'm still here, my mother's cries
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Nigga no father figures make harder niggaz
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Through the years, went to war with niggaz from what I saw in the picture
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Now your son is bigger, 13, but just like you
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Moms said I would grow up and be just like you
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From what you did to my sister she disliked you
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Sixteen, eleventh grade, look at me just like you
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Gunnin for riches, runnin hoppin project fences
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Street corners to Arizona, how I earn my digits
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And I'm far from finished, gamin 'til my coffee diminish
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Why pray for the afterlife when mines just beginnin, huh
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[The Game]
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Only son by our mother, no brothers, only sisters by this one
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Every time I kissed one I missed one, let me explain
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Eight years before the game, everything came with pain
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Watch the fate of my family slain would never see good times a-gayn
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Cursed with pain by a nigga with no shame
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My father, that have the same name as his father
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My grandfather wouldn't believe, he pulled up our family tree
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I can see him rollin over in his coffin
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I'm left with often, thoughts of how could you molest your daughter
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They say that's ten times worse than manslaughter
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Man you ought of, be dead in a grave
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But it wasn't my call, so instead you sat in a cage
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High-powered, two-hundred and fifty pound, six-five coward
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Would of been dead in an hour
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Heard you was scared to take a shower, scared of the yard
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Your end is near, you shoulda been scared of God, motherfucker
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[The Game]
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All my niggaz listen, huh
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I stay a step ahead of the rest of y'all
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Why I gotta keep a vest for y'all
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Though I made it dog I still stress for y'all
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Funny how my folks think rap money stretch so far
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Pray to God my niggaz see through all the checks and the cars
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I'm tryin to invest in what's ours, gimme a couple of years dog
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I'll turn your tears stress and your scars
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Into lawn chairs and green grass in your yard
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I'm tryin to watch my kids wrestlin yours
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Not have to get 'em ready for school and strap a vest on 'em all
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I know sometimes it get hard
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Keep your head up mami, reach for the stars
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Havin a child is like a blessing from God
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You just gotta work hard, can't let your youngest star strip in that bar
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I feel your pain, this shit is rippin my heart
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But where and when do we start, listen to the voice in back of my mind
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Can't reach all my women so I attack it in rhyme
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I know what you're feelin, I'm wripin ya tears ma, it could happen in time
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For now I take your tear strife sufferin, imagine it mine, huh
My Promise Land- Josiah Queen (Official ...
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