| I only listened to one voice, defined as reckless
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| Till I heard another utter your time is precious
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| Never was concerned with them worldly pleasures
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| But when I’m buried my words will be unearthed as treasures
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| In drastic times, I’d revert to those measures
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| Of putting hands in the dirt to search for what’s better
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| Thirsting for cheddar like a rat in a dumpster
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| And that gave me the hunger to rap with such thunder
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| Was going under for a second, felt like a convicted man
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| And struggle was my sentence but now. |
| bam
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| I’m doubling my efforts, regardless of whatever
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| Stumbles in my presence
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| Made my entrance
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| A cunning young apprentice and still
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| Ain’t speak a speck about a gun or bout a necklace
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| My method is run until your breathless
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| There’s nothing gained from something that’s stress less
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| On every day we strained for this (We strained)
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| And got to say there’s been pain for this (Been pain)
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| The life of them entertainers is (What)
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| Ain’t the bliss that they claim it is (It is not)
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| On every day we strain for this
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| And got to say there’s been pain for this
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| Experience we gained from this
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| We so thankful… we never came up quick
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| The race non-stop the pace, constant
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| Wake everyday and got to face some nonsense
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| Face the monsters, snakes to mobsters… out there
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| Trying to take your conscience
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| Many working like slaves, its bonkers
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| And use potions to sedate cause they somber
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| I was taught to never trade the honour, that’s laid upon ya
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| Got to train, be stronger
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| Your brain can wonder
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| Get side tracked, many types you gotta drive back
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| Sly rats and the type that like to wise crack
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| High cats smoking ice until their eyes black
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| Got you unable to write unless your pipes packed
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| Came the hard way, tried to fight facts
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| And started shedding some light upon the right maps
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| Most my youthful life, I was quite cracked
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| Till I 360ed, dynamited at the mind traps
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| Oh yes…
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| On every day we strained for this (We strained)
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| And got to say there’s been pain for this (Been pain)
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| The life of them entertainers is (What)
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| Ain’t the bliss that they claim it is (It is not)
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| On every day we strain for this
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| And got to say there’s been pain for this
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| Experience we gained from this
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| We so thankful… we never came up quick
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| Might have thought I liked the stress, the fight, the test
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| A broken silence, no overnight success
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| Pay the toll gate mate you’ve arrived in the west
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| Where affluence meets with survival at best
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| Guess who’s live upon the set
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| All eyes upon us, man we rising them bets
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| Raising the stakes, why they patiently wait
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| This the hour now, they faze in the greats
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| Was sidetracked when I came in the place
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| So I had to pay for my major mistakes
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| Changed my traits, realised what it takes
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| Can’t be no passenger, man I’m a pilot them planes
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| Lived wild but now they got files on my name
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| Even ma knows now her child’s come of age
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| So from the sunshine to the darkest of days
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| Went from basket case to master of a trade
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| On every day we strained for this (We strained)
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| And got to say there’s been pain for this (Been pain)
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| The life of them entertainers is (What)
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| Ain’t the bliss that they claim it is (It is not)
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| On every day we strain for this
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| And got to say there’s been pain for this
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| Experience we gained from this
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| We so thankful… we never came up quick |