| He’s from the city
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| He’s from, he’s from, from the city
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| He’s from, from the ci-, ci-, city
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| He’s from, he’s from the city where it all began
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| I’m an Ernest Hemingway portrait painted by Ernie Barnes
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| Clean sneakers and dirty horns, last soldier a thirty gon'
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| Who lost hope but still journeyed on
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| Yet I’m the reason we gon have to get the gurney for him
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| police carry and customize cuffs for me
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| I hope these take up guns is still bust for me
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| I had the whole world, it wasn’t enough for me
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| It got me feelin' like the Lord lost trust for me
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| I made a means to an end when there were no ends
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| I burnt bridges, I just wanna be eternal friends
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| The last ones I ever intended to turn against
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| Until we grew our separate ways like fraternal twins
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| So to the chosen few with whom I need to reconcile
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| My mother’s mother, my only brother, my second child
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| I’ll always love you, although that was rarely said aloud
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| So take forever, I guess better late than never proud
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| I’m gonna breath in the bellows, put the apple on my head
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| It’s hard to gain perspective with the world in your hands
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| Gonna drown in the shallows, ashes in the bank
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| Never lookin' back until there’s nothin' in my way
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| Yo, identify with the dead or the livin', I don’t know
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| Maybe my people set up the fall like a domino
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| America, the beautiful, go ask Geronimo
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| What’s the worst they could do to you? | 
| I bet my mama know
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| I bet my father know you’re
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| Even if justice wasn’t blind, she never look at us
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| I want that of what I could not touch
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| I was tryin' to get what I could get before I get locked up
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| And when that death clock struck
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| I was depressed enough to go ahead and press my luck
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| doubt so long, I figured I should just rise up
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| Like helium from the delirium
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| Tryin' to change my skin color like a chameleon
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| But all my best years of life behind, I’m still ahead of me
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| What would I leave behind if I was over everything?
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| The foundation for creation of a better me
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| That’s honestly the true defition of, do it
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| I’m gonna breath in the bellows, put the apple on my head
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| It’s hard to gain perspective with the world in your hands
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| Gonna drown in the shallows, ashes in the bank
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| Devil on my back and there’s a demon in my way
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| God damn it
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| I said now
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| Told you once, can’t fool me twice
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| Hate to be the bearer of bad advice
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| What I see before my eyes
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| Bare with me
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| Feel the fire
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| You’re like the path of least resistance
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| Resistance
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| Yo, they say my seeding’s a future threat, that’s all too correct
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| For that two fifth of a man that barrel to your neck
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| God damn it, the hot hammer get, all due respect
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| For the young self, blocked the cars you collect
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| I have to run the multiple rings like the dream team
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| Tryna ' and touch, keys like Kaseem Dean, surpreme cream
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| His hands so dirty, a clean
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| Screen murder, watchin' 30 for 30, here go the feind, nigga
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| I’m gonna breath in the bellows, put the apple on my head
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| It’s hard to gain perspective with the world in your hands
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| Gonna drown in the shallows with the in the bay
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| Never lookin' back until there’s nothin' in my way |