| Welcome to the university of life
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| Gather 'round and take a seat students
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| I’m your substitute for the night
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| 'Cause you might think you’re doin' it right
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| I thought it too up until I learned my lesson
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| Now it’s the lesson plan that I offer you
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| Study history, learn from the mistakes of those who came before you
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| So you can make it through life differently
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| And take economics, a business class if you got it
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| Had to learn that for myself when people got up in my pockets
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| 'Cause the school of hard-knocks is full of roadblocks and potholes
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| And semester after semester life is a long road
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| You gotta take some risks, but if you livin' dangerous
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| Just know that there’s consequences for the way you live
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| Because expulsion from life is permanent
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| Ain’t no principals offices, church services, so for all my fallen classmates
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| I tip this bottle of bourbon and pour it out
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| As I question what this life is all about
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| That’s when they told me
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| Welcome to the university of life now
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| If you didn’t know before then you gon find out
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| This is real life, don’t be surprised how that I am all grown up
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| (Welcome to the)
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| Welcome to the university of life now
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| If you didn’t know before then you gon find out
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| This is real life, don’t be surprised how that I am all grown up
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| Gotta study psychology so you readin' people properly
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| And learn to see the world through the perspective of philosophy
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| I’ve always loved anatomy, I mean understandably
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| But I played it safe 'cause I ain’t ready for family, 'cause
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| I’m still working on myself and that’s the mission
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| As taxes in my business' expenses became tuition
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| Ain’t no wishin' on a star, real life comes at a cost
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| Ao crawl before you walk and listen more than you talk
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| Take your lessons as a blessing, raise your hand and ask questions
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| We all got ADD but pay attention
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| No prisons and no testin' that could give you preparation
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| Live with zero hesitation, yo this life is what you make it
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| Gotta take it, any records that they set just go and break it
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| I’d rather have detention than follow and be complacent
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| 'Cause when I hit my lowest and started loosin' focus
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| And everything around me seemed hopeless, that’s when they told me
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| Welcome to the university of life now
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| If you didn’t know before then you gon find out
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| This is real life, don’t be surprised how that I am all grown up
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| (Welcome to the)
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| Welcome to the university of life now
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| If you didn’t know before then you gon find out
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| This is real life, don’t be surprised how that I am all grown up
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| Yeah, keep that sunshine on my side
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| So I know it’s gonna be alright
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| Follow me and I’ma be your guide
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| Leave your worries behind, yeah
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| These mistakes that I’m takin' home
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| Taught me everything I know
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| And now I’m here to help you grow, whoah woah yeah
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| Welcome to the university of life now
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| If you didn’t know before then you gon find out
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| This is real life, don’t be surprised how that I am all grown up |