| Now I was
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| Sitting on a mountain of dilemmas
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| Guzzling 40 ounces to the liver
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| Thinking about my life my life
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| How I was living in strife
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| We would be out all night
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| In front of my building
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| In the gutter the impoverished civilians
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| It was life or death
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| I was just trying to make a killing
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| Jobs wasn’t hiring
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| Mama lost her mind again
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| Daughter needed diapers
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| And daddy needed a Vicodin
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| Baby girl getting older
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| And it won’t be long
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| Til she got the weight of the world on her shoulders
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| Try to be calm
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| This chronic prevent me from doing niggas bodily harm
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| Gotta remind me I’m Shawn
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| Cuz sometimes I be lost
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| Fantasizing about cars
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| Go to sleep with a picture of a Maserati on my wall
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| From them projects and buildings
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| To a yacht and some slippers
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| Had them Christopher Wallace intentions
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| I had to get it
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| Big dreams, big dreams the whole city was mine
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| Big dreams, big dreams, Benz, beepers and 9's
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| Big dreams, big dreams, the only limit’s the sky
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| Got me feeling like the world is mine
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| Now close your eyes
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| Now everybody has a dream
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| But not every man has a plan
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| For some it becomes a reality
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| Slight chance but hey
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| You, you take it for what it’s worth
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| Even if it just so happens your face end up in the dirt
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| Where I’m from the definition of work
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| Is a zipper some purp, or a key of that girl
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| I swear the city’s bizerk
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| Wanted to travel the world
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| Leave a dent on this earth
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| I guess a nigga in search
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| Always trying to find an exit
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| Was tired of living reckless
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| In my mind envisioned myself driving in a Lexus
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| Uh, you’ll know ya nig got it made
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| When the cops never raid and the crib got a maid
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| Why life as a shorty gotta be fucked up?
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| I just want what’s mine I ain’t asking for much
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| I mean, I had dreams and rapping was one
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| It was either that or ski mask and a gun
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| But you don’t hear me tho
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| Know what I’m saying
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| Close your eyes man
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| Picture that man
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| Close your eyes and envision this
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| You know what I’m saying
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| It’s the life
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| It’s a Cole world
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| Big cars, expensive linen
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| You know what it is
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| Grizzly City to the Ville nigga
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| Real niggas connect
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| Know what I’m saying respect
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| Fayettnam all the way to Grizzly City nigga
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| Big Dreams
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| It’s the F |