| This is beginning and end, the answer and the reason
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| This the life and the death, the changin of the seasons
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| It’s the joy and the pain, the angels and the demons
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| It’s a wonderous thing, the changin of the seasons
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| This is beginning and end, the answer and the reason
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| This the life and the death, the changin of the seasons
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| It’s the joy and the pain, the angels and the demons
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| It’s a wonderous thing
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| In the winter of his discontent
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| He was birthed like a verse from the gospel
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| Pops was ghost, moms played host to the Johns in the brothel
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| Never heard any words to encourage out his mom’s mouth
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| How to cook up all the hook-ups, was learned from the men
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| That she let in the house, turned out by the business
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| Missed a lot more than Christmas, giftless, childhood was a juvenile hell
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| Knew his number better than himself as he peered down his cell
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| Out of the darkness, in a cold labyrinth
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| That haunts us, his man parks up
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| Pullin heat out compartments like, spring into action
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| Cash is satisfaction, I’m sunk askin him livin life hype |
| He observes but back to the curb to sound the white birds
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| And NexTel chirps, he can tell he’s accustomed by his 2-way alert
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| New opportunties blossomed, from niggas he met locked in
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| And old niggas that he knew that acted like they just forgot him (uhh)
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| Life seemed like mid summer night’s dream
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| Got a crib and a queen — first seed on the way
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| Due November 17th, shorty settin the scene
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| Beggin him to get his act clean to the right side of the law
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| But his audience was the money machine’s constant applause
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| Never concerned with the effects, just out for the cause
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| To get back what he lost, he hustled at all cost
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| Started to floss foolish, pigs watchin the movements
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| Every crew got his Judas
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| Uhh, he holds onto the wall
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| Hopin that he won’t fall, feelin his life slip away
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| Watchin the leaves float away, in the yard
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| The closest that he gets to guard the only bars he thought he’d be in
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| Would be filled with pretty women and TV’s playin ESPN
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| And now he can’t control his peein
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| The family that he never had but used to seein |
| In his daydreamin turn they back and started leavin
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| Come to demons and that instant turns to a infant, the change of seasons
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| This is beginning and end, the answer and the reason
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| This the life and the death, the changin of the seasons
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| It’s the joy and the pain, the angels and the demons
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| It’s a wonderous thing |