| I just wanna say
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| Welcome to the part of the show
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| Where the base drum hits hard and slow
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| Your face becomes aware that Im starting to flow
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| And it sounds like a song that you already know
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| You might have heard it at 11th and Fillmore
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| A sort biggish building with a littlish a billboard but
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| Whats everybody staying still 4,
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| 3,2,1 If youre happy, Gillmore
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| Then act like youre knowing it clap
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| And move like youre in a kayak and youre rowing it
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| And if you dont wanna clap then snap
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| Whatever floats your boat just go with it
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| Cause Im hoping thisll get you open
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| Its a bit of spoken word a little joking heard hear and there
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| Lemme clear the air
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| This is not a competitionLord, hear my prayer
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| So if anybody listening is feeling scared
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| We wanna make your spirit aware that
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| You are not alone
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| You are not alone
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| You are (you are) not alone
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| You dont have to do this on your own
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| One Love Agape One Love Agape
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| Solo (w) it can feel like were coming apart
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| Together were much more than the sum of our parts
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| One Love Agape One love Agape
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| Some of out parts are just about busting
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| Some of our parts are rusty but these
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| Lips voice sentiments begun in our hearts and
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| Heal wounds with the songs that are sung in the dark
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| So if youre feeling like a Pimp take a moment just to hold it off
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| My role model will not only brush ya shoulders off
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| But wash your feet, give his life as the soldiers watch
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| And forgive his torturers below the cross
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| So when youre slapped and youre told to fight back
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| And they taunt you over the phone to incite smack
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| Get back! |
| Get back in the zone despite that
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| And rely on the strength that the bonified have
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| But if you act like you know me like that
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| Call me cheesy like macaroni I might snap snap
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| But only like that and get on the microphone and recite raps
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| You are not alone
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| You dont have to do this on your own
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| You wont have to prove yourself to get through this
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| Dont have to lose yourself to this music
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| In fact you might find yourself
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| In a room full of strangers trying to help
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| In a flashback to the last time you felt
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| The presence of something divine well, this is
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| Hip-hop its not just for profit anymore never was
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| Its too easy to live your life waiting for change to arrive if it ever does
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| It will come from a source thats infinite, not from a middle man
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| You cant measure its force but youve got a sense of it, and its bigger than
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| Hip-hopits larger than life/death.much greater than us/them.
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| Everybody One love/agape |