| Now this time we have is all ours
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| Tired of waiting, make a move
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| You live inside your modern math
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| I’ll be on the moon, the moon
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| (What did you think?)
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| I betcha feel good now
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| Yeah, yeah (Feel good now)
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| I betcha feel good now (What did you think?)
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| Yeah, yeah
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| Yeah, betcha you feel good
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| Betcha you feel—
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| Betcha you feel good now (Oh, oh)
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| Uh, yeah
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| Remember when I used to take a rickshaw to the school, shit (Shit)
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| Way back 'fore the service had my daddy pack and move it (Move it)
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| I didn’t speak a lick, train my tongue wit' the cartoon shit (Yeah)
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| 'Til a youngin fire breathin' back when he was toothless
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| They would body shame my pigment (Yo)
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| Like I had a choice to choose it (What?)
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| Too foreign for the white kids, too vanilla for the desis (You know it)
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| Not included, like double A’s for Casios I grooved with as a baby
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| Last year I toured the nation off of a music
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| Shit is crazy
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| I’ve traveled far and wide
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| To find my place and lay my head
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| They say we’re all confused
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| I guess I am, I must confess
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| And if the world will end
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| Why not go and take my chance? |
| (Take it)
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| Modern man (Okay)
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| Do your dance
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| Yo
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| Mama came across the water
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| Like fuck a border (Fuck)
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| Like fuck the future Donald wanted (Fuck)
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| You can’t deport the culture (Nah)
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| My grandma voted and got shot at by soldiers (Shit)
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| To me, she the Haitian Rosa
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| So in part I owe her
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| Wish I was older so I could’ve met her (Yeah)
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| But instead I write this letter like it’s not a record (Nah)
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| But it is and it’s prolly a hit
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| Shit, Abhi goin' to call me like, «Sol, they gon' party to this shit»
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| Just some brown kids, down since 'round 2006 (Yeah)
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| When Luda had us eatin' that Chicken-n-Beer
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| Ain’t shit different, they switching no gears (Uh-uh)
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| The ignorant still questioning which pigment he in
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| I’m a modern boy, more than you’ll ever know (Know)
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| 23andMe couldn’t crack the code (Code)
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| Yeah my DNA came from all across the globe
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| In more ways than one, but there’s only one Sol
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| I’ve traveled far and wide
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| To find my place and lay my head
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| They say we’re all confused
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| I guess I am, I must confess
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| And if the world will end
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| Why not go and take my chance?
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| Modern man
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| Yeah
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| Now do your dance
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| (Yeah yeah)
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| Yeah! |
| (Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh)
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| Yeah, yeah, yeah
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| (Yeah, yeah)
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| Yeah |