| Now if you load your rifle right
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| And if you fix your bayonet so
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| And if you kill that man my friend
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| The one we call the foe
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| I’m about to open up your mind a little bit more this time (check it, check it)
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| It’s like a whole different world now, when a was younger
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| I hung around this kid who was like my third brother
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| Watched out for each other, felt another’s pain
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| And back in the day we even used to dress the same
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| I know things changed from the world to the game
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| But the strange thing is, I forget that kid’s name
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| We grew up on the same block, come for 20 years
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| I forget how he looks but the past is very clear
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| We wrote our first rhyme together
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| Got drunk our first time together
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| Shit, I thought we’d get signed together
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| These are days when we still got along
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| Chilled in the studio and killed every songs
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| Hey yo, 1996, shortly after graduation
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| He flipped his attitude, we started having situations
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| Started acting weird, stealing shit from the mall
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| And I know it ain’t that bad, but I’m the one who took the fall
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| (What are best friends for, right?)
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| Yeah, that’s when I realized that this guy was a asshole inside
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| Lying, conniving, can’t deal with that shit
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| Keep on getting me in trouble, I’m about ready to split
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| Now if you load your rifle right
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| And if you fix your bayonet so
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| And if you kill that man my friend
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| The one we call the foe
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| Yo, I let the record keep spinning
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| And everything is different now from the beginning
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| And try to hang with him, and I can’t say I miss him
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| I’m trying to elevate, stay away from all the bullshit and keep a mental state
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| And as the days goes by, yo, the months turn to years
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| I was running in the clear but always felt that he was there
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| Always felt he was around, I started feeling weird
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| How’s this kid affecting me when I ain’t talked to him in years
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| I couldn’t take it son, I had enough!
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| So I made my way downtown and got drunk as fuck!
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| 20 minutes walk home, took about a hour
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| Tried to get sober quick by jumping in the shower
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| Got out, slipped, hit the toilet, then my blood started to drip from the
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| forehead
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| I stumble to my feet and everything became clearer
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| I saw my best friend, bleeding in the mirror
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| Now if you load your rifle right
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| And if you fix your bayonet so
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| And if you kill that man my friend
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| The one we call the foe |