| I do this for my father
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| Who’ve I’ve only seen
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| From time to time in my dreams
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| I do this for, you
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| I do this for my mother
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| Who’s finally clean
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| And no longer a feen
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| I do this for, you
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| I do this for my sister
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| My wife and my kids
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| Cause they part of the team
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| I do this for
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| All the naysayers and haters
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| Who made me one of the greatest
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| I know it kills you inside
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| That’s why I do this for you
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| I do this for the kids who sit a bit outside the mix
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| Who maybe cope through humor, just to fit in for a bit
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| Who never let the world know when depressions setting in
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| To all of those who know you that impression don’t exist
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| And it ain’t counterfeit, it’s just a way to counter it
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| I’m living things I dreamed about, I still encounter it
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| It ain’t something that a cigarette or alcohol can fix
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| But all because of it I flipped it quick, went on to write some hits
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| This a success off another breath
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| This the first step in searching to be nothing less
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| Than be the best in what you do, to prove there’s strength in being you
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| Learned so much in chasing dreams that I never would in school
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| Depends on where your passion lie, just know passion never lie
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| Life presents distractions, but your actions have to fortify
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| The things that you believe in have to scream it like a battlecry
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| And leave the ones who didn’t lookin' stupid while they’re asking why
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| Couldn’t lie, I really do this for the ones I love
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| Those who treat the music as a vice and lyrics like a drug
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| Those who need advice on how to lift their spirit high enough
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| To break out of the box they make of lives they know aren’t good enough
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| Just because it’s how it is don’t mean it’s how it has to be
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| This is what the uninspired testifiers fail to see
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| Jealousy results from being that which others failed to be
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| And if it means you’re not with me that honestly sounds fair to me
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| I do this for my father
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| Who’ve I’ve only seen
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| From time to time in my dreams
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| I do this for, you
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| I do this for my mother
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| Who’s finally clean
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| And no longer a feen
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| I do this for, you
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| I do this for my sister
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| My wife and my kids
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| Cause they part of the team
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| I do this for
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| All the naysayers and haters
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| Who made me one of the greatest
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| I know it kills you inside
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| That’s why I do this for you
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| Do this for my mother, she’ll be working for the summer
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| Do this for my father cause these days I often wonder
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| What my life would have been like if I was not adopted
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| To grow up in a home where I was treated like a problem
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| I don’t know, it’s just a guess, your guess probably good as mine
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| Lucky that I grew up in a home that wanted me to shine
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| Lucky that I grew up round some mountain we were taught to climb
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| Without that inspiration I don’t think that this would be my life
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| Do this for my friends who’ve scattered all cross the country now
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| I’m out in Sweden walking back through life so I can write it down
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| Make a living off the sound, so crazy to say out loud
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| I’m the biggest thing since Travis Rice to come up out the town
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| Sorry gotta stunt a little, used to have my dreams belittled
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| But it’s all a part of it, I know people’s minds are fickle
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| Lines between reality and dreams I blur like faded nights
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| Come up been so good for me, I wish that I could make it twice
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| I do this for my father
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| Who’ve I’ve only seen
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| From time to time in my dreams
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| I do this for, you
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| I do this for my mother
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| Who’s finally clean
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| And no longer a feen
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| I do this for, you
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| I do this for my sister
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| My wife and my kids
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| Cause they part of the team
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| I do this for
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| All the naysayers and haters
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| Who made me one of the greatest
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| I know it kills you inside
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| That’s why I do this for you |