| Crime in the streets
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| I read about it everyday in the papers
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| And justice needs and justice wants
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| But just in times, yes, too late here
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| Oh, feels like I wasn’t born there
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| (Feels like I wasn’t born there)
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| I feel just like a Boogie Pilgrim, oh, huh, yeah
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| Boogie Pilgrim, hustled to get it, to get it together
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| Down on the jive talk, down on the weather
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| Boogie Pilgrim, oh, brother I never felt better
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| No, I never felt better
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| Low life’s complete
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| When you’ve lived that way out on the sidewalk
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| (Walking on the sidewalk everyday)
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| Oh, I got the speed, baby, you got the need, ah, uh
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| But the need in me needs nothing
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| (But you know that I need nothing)
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| But I know that you all want something
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| Oh, just like Boogie Pilgrim, Boogie Pilgrim
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| Yeah, I know I’m better
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| (Don't you know that I never felt better)
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| No, I’m never, never, never felt better
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| (Don't you know that I never felt better)
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| Don’t you know that I never felt better
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| Boogie, Boogie, Boogie Pilgrim, yeah
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| Oh, lord I never felt better, yeah
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| (Don't you know that I never felt better)
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| Ooh hoo, ooh hoo, ooh hoo
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| Yeah
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| (You know that I never felt better)
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| Boogie Pilgrim |