| When the light’s lookin' dim
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| And your life’s on the limb
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| It’s, uh, sink or swim (My nigga)
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| Yeah, sink or swim (My nigga)
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| When the light’s lookin' dim
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| And your life’s on the limb
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| It’s, uh, sink or swim (My nigga)
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| Yeah, sink or swim
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| No faint of heart, it’s obvious who playin' hard
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| The outcome of how you live depends on how you start
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| Make your mark or fall in line and play your part
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| Never had a chance to deal a hand, just played the cards
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| On God, some would rather go fraud
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| And ride on every other wave like the Coast Guards
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| It’s all a scheme (Uh), family couldn’t meet they means
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| Uncles and cousins who was too asleep to see they dreams
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| We still make the memories on them failed nights
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| Real life, close to jail nights
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| Them what the hell nights (Ayy), runnin' red lights (Ayy)
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| Cousin' with the Cutlass with the busted tail lights
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| Psh, and the cops here, damn
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| All burnt out with no place to go
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| You got no choice but to face your soul
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| Money equals time, ain’t no wastin' mine
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| Before you step up, think twice before you take that dive
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| When the light’s lookin' dim (Lookin' dim)
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| And your life’s on the limb (On the limb)
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| It’s, uh, sink or swim (Sink or swim, my nigga)
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| Yeah, sink or swim (Sink or swim, my nigga)
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| When the light’s lookin' dim (Lookin' dim)
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| And your life’s on the limb (On the limb)
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| It’s, uh, sink or swim (Sink or swim, my nigga)
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| Yeah, sink or swim
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| Indigo child, oh, how you tell the signs
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| The revolution rumor will not be televised?
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| Prepare me for my purpose is what I often tell to God
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| Just plug me for my labor’s what I try to tell my mom
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| See, that sneaker job only pays seven forty-five
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| Three shifts a week, four to five hours at a time
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| Thirty hours on one check, my nigga? |
| I can divide
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| To sum it up, all of this work ain’t worth all of my pride
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| These heirs, they came prepared for takin' all of my pie
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| I deserve more than just a piece of dough
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| My knuckles ashy, see, I needed dough
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| Pops, the apple ain’t fall far from the tree, fo' sho
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| I’m really splashin' in the deep fo' sho
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| Case you needs to know, nigga
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| When the light’s lookin' dim (Lookin' dim)
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| And your life’s on the limb (On the limb)
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| It’s, uh, sink or swim (Sink or swim, my nigga)
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| Yeah, sink or swim (Sink or swim, my nigga)
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| Sink or swim, sink or swim |