| For how we say it ‘round my way
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| Fo' sho… big things
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| Act like ya know me
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| Not a soul can hold me
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| Yeah, look
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| At five points where hell and heaven meet
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| And demons war in these streets
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| And angels fall short, and call for relief
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| It seems I’ve seen many fall in the beef
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| People crawling for peace
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| Sons pass, mothers fall to they knees
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| Like ‘Please Lord, save my sweet boy!'
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| Temple’s bleeding all on mama’s sleeves
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| Face haunting all of mama’s dreams
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| Mama never sleeps, neither do these streets, watching
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| Dreams of peace, with a piece poppin'
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| Thieves creepin', rockin' cheap stockings over they grill
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| Dust heads dip cigarettes and blow ‘em to chill
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| Cheap pimps in purple suits, matching purple boots
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| Freak free tryin' to freak, we know the truth
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| You can’t take a deep breath without chokin'
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| It’s filthy fam — not to mention how the livin’s bad
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| Can’t make lemonade out of squeezing trash
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| Shit, the city’s burning — I can see the ash
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| Around the way, I can feel the hate
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| Thugs willin' to be, killers who get a taste
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| Evil in they eyes, demon at they waist
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| Fast lane living, switching at the devil’s pace
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| Around the way, I can feel the pain
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| I can see the tears drippin' off my mama’s face
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| Age is in her eyes, listen to her pray
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| All she wanna know is that her only son is safe
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| Cash… us!
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| Maybe this really is Babylon, the refuge
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| The afterlife, the rescue
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| Maybe this is after dawn, the light is dead
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| It’s as dark as night as Joker’s cards as feelings do
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| Dealing without the Dark Knight to fight crime
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| Standin' in the middle of the heartless height
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| Built up around all this madness — they call it life
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| They overrated —
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| I seen niggas die and overdose off a dose of hatred
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| As they fall from high places
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| Gangstas claim gangs in my city
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| The rich and poor for having a knot, divide races
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| Fist raised no justice, cops bust us for what now
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| ‘Cause deep in they souls they don’t trust us with our freedom
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| But free is what these devils can’t take, came late
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| But realize, the love is never leavin'
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| The Islamics praying Selat
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| The Christians praying to God
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| I’m playin' the odds
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| It’s never even
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| Yeah, look
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| I heard God’s in every one of us
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| Funny I could never see God being a hustler
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| Comin' for that rubber-bound roll he’ll cut you jugular
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| No, I see him cryin', in a den of lions
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| Where his people get thrown
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| For every beeper, chain and sneaker that’s sold
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| Throughout the city, while the hurt suffer
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| All the feeling does is grown
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| Like a killer on a pilgrimage stroll
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| To do his deed, I could split the seed
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| With a pen in my O
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| On a thirty-six, penning my quotes
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| To ease pressure, while I eat depression
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| Fast-food in a coat
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| If you live it, fast-forward and cope
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| There ain’t no other way
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| This world’s a lonely place, it’s like my mother say
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| Instill fear like steer, there ain’t no rubber blades
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| Stay out of trouble’s way, dream on another day
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| But if the dreams are perceived as reality
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| We all in a fallacy
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| At least that’s what my pastor say
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| All my anger (?), all my fear
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| Ain’t no justice — just us |