| To be the best at what he do
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| He just kept kickin', and kickin', and kickin' until the bag wouldn’t move
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| Until his shins were numb
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| He just kept powerin' through
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| He wants to look after his mum
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| Somethin' his dad couldn’t do
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| He used to train out in the park
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| In the blistering cold
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| Until the roads went dark and the streetlight’s gave you that orange glow
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| He would keep kickin' but he would get kicked back 'til he had a broken nose
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| It could’ve been boxing
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| It could’ve been wrestling
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| It could’ve been taekwondo
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| Didn’t matter, he was there six days a week
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| Same gym bag, same trainers on his feet
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| Worked on the door so he could eat
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| Trained hard 'cause he didn’t wanna taste defeat
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| But sometimes you have to lose and learn before you become the man to beat
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| And the night that his mum stood next to the cage to support him it was just
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| clear to see
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| She kept payin' and payin' and payin' for sessions, and all of em paid off
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| Cause now when he kicks, he doesn’t feel pain and he could take somebodies face
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| off
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| He won in the second round, but by then his mum had just ruined her make-up
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| He made thirteen grand and dropped it all on his mother’s table
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| Life is only what you make of it
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| We’re born alone and time begins to tick
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| I pray you, I pray you never let it break you
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| Hey, hey
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| Life is only what you make of it
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| We’re born alone and time begins to tick
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| I pray you, I pray you never let it break you
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| Hey, hey
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| To fail and know it’s too late
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| There was three of 'em all of 'em cousins
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| And they would play on the estate
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| They didn’t get along with the other kids
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| So they would get into fights
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| But the oldest cousin felt like he had to make sure they were nice
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| So he started fightin', fightin', always fightin' just to protect
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| He put himself in a position where nobody liked him
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| He got arrested for the last time
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| Say goodnight to the bad guy
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| Only sixteen lookin' at eighteen months and at least he’ll do nine
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| And this meant the younger cousins were left on the street to fend for
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| themselves
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| And now the protection’s gone for the oldest out of the two
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| It was hell
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| And now he’s just fightin', fightin' always fightin'
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| But he’s not originally from this country so he’s on his final warning
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| He got deported back to his hometown where the older cousin was home now
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| Feelin' guilty his younger got sent home so he’s ringin' his mobile phone now
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| But he didn’t answer, and when he went on his facebook
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| It just said R.I.P
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| The reason I know this story is because the oldest cousin in this was me
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| Life is only what you make of it
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| We’re born alone and time begins to tick
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| I pray you, I pray you never let it break you
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| Hey, hey
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| Life is only what you make of it
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| We’re born alone and time begins to tick
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| I pray you, I pray you never let it break you
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| Hey, hey
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| Life is only what you make of it
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| Life is only what you make of it
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| Life is only what you make of it (What you make of it)
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| Life is only what you make of it-
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| I pray you (I pray), I pray you (Oh, I pray)
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| I pray you (I pray), I pray you (Oh, I pray), I pray you never let it break you
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| (You never, ever let it break you, yeah)
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| Life is only what you make of it
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| We are born alone and time begins to tick
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| I pray you, I pray you never let it break you
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| Hey, hey |