| In my Continental, splintered off the mental
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| When you want the best, you’ll never accept anything less
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| Elements of purpose, true love from the first kiss
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| Spread it on the surface, sit back and watch the progress
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| T-t-t-t-t-t-teacher, teacher, how can I learn patience?
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| Planted in the middle and outside of your nation
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| Take the care to build a familiar foundation
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| Speak to the youth that keep the truth sacred
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| Free the, free the good inside your heart
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| Your neighborhood, it needs you to travel with your art
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| From New York to Cali, some day they’ll all know
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| Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Chicago
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| Now I’ve come a long way from the younger days
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| When I used to look up curse words in my dictionary
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| If life’s a game, gotta choose a side to play
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| If I gotta pick a position I’mma pick missionary
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| I’ve had a little bit too much to think tonight
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| But it’s cool, I’ll be alright, just make sure that I keep travellin'
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| Your reactions only reinforce the previous thoughts
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| You’d feel the distance even if the bridge was collapsin'
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| Well, kudos and props and every hollow desire
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| That you could conjure in an instant that it takes to breathe
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| I got my Duplos and blocks and Lincoln Logs for when it’s time to build
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| I wait patiently for them to catch up to speed
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| And I’ll be
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| T-t-t-t-t-t-t-teacher, teacher, show me what you know now
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| Load up your van with musicians and go south
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| Visit Atlanta, Memphis, Tulsa, Texas
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| Plug in the decks, check the mics, fight the wreckage
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| Keep the, keep the motive in your movement
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| Let 'em know where you come from and show them how you do it
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| Children are the focus, give 'em one to grow with
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| Learn 'em how to take they minutes, turn 'em into moments
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| See, nowadays cats think they on some next
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| And they sacrifice they voice just to go over heads (What)
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| If I felt as if I had somethin special to tell
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| Why would I work against myself and hide it under my belt?
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| I used to try to lace the phrases with magic tricks
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| Every paragraph needed translation attached to it
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| They saw the style, respected the craft
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| But all I did was confuse 'em, would try to get 'em to laugh
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| Painted pictures in the primer, no one got the pulp
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| Found the humor, the anger, and the insult
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| Why should I waste any oxygen
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| Tryin' to find the in-between-the-lines that they get lost within?
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| I’m out there for the craft, for the cause
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| The laughter, the applause, the passion for the flaws
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| The fact that I’mma draw some heads to what I’m feelin'
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| Lift 'em all up until they try to touch the ceiling
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| Come on and reach the, reach the masses won by singular
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| They hold you and they smile when they feel what you can bring to the
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| Culture and soul that cultivate the flow with
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| Breath control and he kept it whole
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| Because piece by piece the picture turns to puzzle
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| If you lose a few those that remain change into rubble
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| Freedom is a word not heard from those that own it
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| Can’t fix the machine if you don’t have the components
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| And I’ll be
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| Cause we’re not from this planet, we come from somewhere else
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| And you can’t understand it, cause you don’t know yourself
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| But when the time is right, our path will be unveiled
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| Till then you seek your light, while I sit and bite my nails
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| I didn’t mean it
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| Seven days |