| Ah yeah
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| It’s real
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| Gonna put it down
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| All these little crime thangs
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| Homeless the world is crazy boy
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| It’s like this
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| It’s the way it is
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| Heavy out there, it’s heavy
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| Was I really such a bad child that I deserved to get hit with boards
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| And whooped with extension cords?
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| Did you forget that I was your creation
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| And all I wanted from you all was love hope and motivation?
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| Son, you’re disrespectful and you’re talking back, get out my face
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| Kicked me out the house and wouldn’t even let me plead my case
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| Now, I’m homeless and I’m freezing like the morgue
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| The only thing keeping me alive is the Lord
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| Needless to say it’s times like this I’d rather be locked up then
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| Drinkin' water out my hands and eatin' out of garbage cans
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| Can I come back home, huh could I?
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| Son, you’re on your own, why should I?
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| Some things’ll never change, that’s just the way it is
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| Nobody’s even concerned
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| Some things’ll never change, that’s just the way it is
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| When will we ever learn?
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| Huh, three years from now, I think I’m gon be straight
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| I put my name on the list for section 8
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| Tried out for the army but I was flat footed
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| Didn’t do no harm to me, 'cause I was used to it
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| If I apply for some work, let’s make a bet
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| I’ll get the nine 'cause I don’t know about the Internet
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| What do you think we need to do to change about this nation?
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| Need to provide more jobs and better education
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| Nuclear weapons, puh, should be stopping crimes
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| Already got enough to blow the world up a thousand times
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| The birds and the bees, deadly disease
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| Teenage pregnancies, STDs
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| Some things’ll never change, that’s just the way it is
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| Nobody’s even concerned
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| Some things’ll never change, that’s just the way it is
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| When will we ever learn?
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| A wait, a wait a minute, I hear sirens
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| Oh, that’s the couple down the street
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| Domestic violence either them or the little girl in 306
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| She’s always telling everyone that she gon slice her wrists
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| I guess that’s the way it is in the life of sin
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| Where you’ll prolly end up dead, or in the pen
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| But my family ain’t no better than the next
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| My auntie Brenda turned her own sister in for writing bad checks
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| And save folks try to hit you where it hurts
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| Knowin' they the biggest hypocrites in the church
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| We need to give our minds a bath and do some scrubbin'
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| Stop the hate and start the lovin'
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| Some things’ll never change, that’s just the way it is
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| Nobody’s even concerned
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| Some things’ll never change, that’s just the way it is
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| When will we ever learn?
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| Some things’ll never change, that’s just the way it is
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| Nobody’s even concerned
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| Some things’ll never change, that’s just the way it is
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| When will we ever learn?
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| Learn, learn, learn, learn |