| There was a curious secretive streak in the man
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| Which led to many dramatic effects — but left even his
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| Closest friends guessing as to what his exact plans might be
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| He pushed to an extreme, the axiom that the only safe plotter
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| Was he who plotted alone. |
| I was nearer him than anyone else
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| And yet I always conscious of the gap between
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| Say mayne, let me rap to you for a minute
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| Say. |
| yeah, yea you — ay mayne, say you!
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| Say! |
| Say mayne! |
| Say mayne!
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| Say mayne let me rap to you for a minute
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| Yeah I gotta holla at you, yeah
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| Say what?
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| The QUESTION is how could a man like me
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| Actually, a man that’s free
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| Of speech and the ability to reach, the masses
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| Never not, know what to say I know how brainwaves operate
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| Consistantly and our ideas, FUEL our existance
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| See if you can see if you can see if my resistance
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| Against this oppressor, a passive aggressor
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| Master professor, with every chance I get
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| To, lure some sleepin people out the pit
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| One, foot in the grave the other, foot in some shit
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| Yo time waits for no man, especially not you
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| Get yo' murk, this’ll be yo' very first clue when
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| WORDS, fail and actions take over you will see
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| That them are no more you can take away freedom outcome
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| THERE I WAS, in between my freedom and a slug
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| When they, pull the plug
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| I’mma walk through the light that’s ahead of me
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| Could’ve been, ANYONE instead of me so live and let it be
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| Spoken like they said it to me
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| Yo, say what’s on yo' mind nigga, let the people see
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| SOME speaker’s on the podium, hit you with the sodium
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| Go up in equipped without petroleum
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| But I’m a +Project Blowedian+
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| More complex than your Napoleon
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| Okay, Double-A, never runnin out of things to
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| SAY, whatchu wanna SAY
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| And watch what people SAY, about what you SAY
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| Just SAY, whatchu wanna SAY
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| And watch what people SAY, about what you SAY
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| SAY, whatchu wanna SAY
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| And watch what people SAY, about what you SAY
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| Just SAY, whatchu wanna SAY
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| And watch what people SAY, about what you SAY
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| The QUESTION is how could a guy like me
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| Actually, a mighty MC with the eye of a bee
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| Conditioned to the same ol' conditionin
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| Position in mid-air, limbo
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| Once upon a time I didn’t care but
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| Now it’s not that simple
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| Maybe I, should refrain
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| And let the unimaginative, non-creative ones give me some brains
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| Give me some brains
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| SAY! |
| Maybe I should rename the talk
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| Run a lap with my trap while you backslide in the dark
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| My choppers, OH my choppers
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| Get me out of the worst work, blade choppers
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| Save the hoppers, boppers
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| Disballoon bar not a popper stopper
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| Feel the dreams cash cropper copper steel wool
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| Still pull chords
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| Wrestled with these bullhorns
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| With both arms, 'til they all submit
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| Put the mic on B-LAST and let me say some shit
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| Never runnin out of things to say.
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| Never runnin out of things to say, say, say mayne
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| Say mayne! |
| Y-yeah, ay mayne, SAY!
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| Let me holla atchu
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| Say mayne, yeah you, say
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| Say what? |
| What?
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| Say, say what say what?
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| Say what? |
| Say what?
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| Say why? |
| Yeah
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| Say when, aight when |