| What you gonna do
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| When there’s bills to pay
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| And there’s kids to raise
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| And the money that you make
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| Just ain’t enough?
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| Uh, sun sizzlin' through my window
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| I peep the tempo
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| You toke up on that indo
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| When life comes to crescendo
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| We played it smooth
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| I got the heart to make it
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| I’m Liam Neeson for my people
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| Mine ain’t for the takin'
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| Talkin' kindness
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| Some get blinded
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| By boasts for shinin'
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| The coldest nigga ever still couldn’t predict the climate
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| Time’s a wrinkle to the heat they ironin'
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| Press it dinin'
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| It was tucked away like a handkerchief and pocket linin'
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| Can’t define it
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| Raise your signage
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| How we up, but we still declinin'?
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| Black is gold, but we strive for diamonds
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| Zion’s close
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| I just pray you find it
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| And send word to the left behinded
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| Overwhelmed and undermined it
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| Instead of guns I got knowledge you should blow your mind with
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| Don’t be late for the vibin', check your time and
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| We all got a lane of our own, watch we drivin'
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| Every pool ain’t meant for divin'
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| Every groove ain’t meant for slidin'
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| Don’t confuse hustlin' with survivin'
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| Life is far from a game with quick revivin'
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| Only mothers cryin'
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| Over kids dyin'
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| While they tryin'
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| To make a livin'
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| In a world of bill collectors
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| Forever billin'
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| While the rest want a better life
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| Lookin' at the ceilin' as the fan blow
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| Man, this sheetrock ain’t appealin', uh
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| I want a house upon the hill, mama, uh
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| It ain’t safe where I live, mama, uh
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| The gunshots give me chills, mama, uh
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| The candy lady moved from here, mama, uh
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| I got a partner that got a shot and he down to make it
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| But if them FEDs passed the rock I pray he never take it
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| But I know the feelin' of wantin' to win in life
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| So a wrong becomes a right
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| Yeah, we roll the dice
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| It’s crazy that I’m in this situation
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| Cause my bills don’t get paid by occupations
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| And it ain’t that we didn’t get education
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| There just wadn’t no jobs after graduation
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| And I ain’t sayin' that this job don’t work
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| But if my boss don’t chill someone might get hurt
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| Because I tell them right they think I’m wrong
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| And they want me gone
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| I can’t live the life that I want to live
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| I can’t give the bread that I want to give
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| Pressure’s on me and the weight is growin'
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| But I’m gon' make it on my own
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| Try to ride around with my top loose
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| Work from the sun til I see the moon
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| Gunshots rang and I could barely sleep
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| All I hear is the police
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| What you gonna do when they come for you?
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| Work ain’t enough just to pay the bills
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| What you gonna do when they come for you?
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| Take what’s mine cause they never give
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| So I pray |