| Occupy a knuckle busting forty.
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| And everyday i walk my mile again.
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| Stirring black coffee with my toothbrush, staring down the barrell of another
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| day, I’m the firing pin.
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| Walked out of school just’a yesterday, walked straight on the line.
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| I got a man looking over my shoulder but i; |
| i do my time.
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| Been holding my head under water so long, I’ve forgotten how to breathe.
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| If anything good ever happen at all come running.
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| And i’ll be somebody you dont want to You don’t own me, you don’t get my body
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| for free.
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| You can’t shun me cause you’re half a man you wish you could be.
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| And you can’t run me, this is my reason, I gotta win.
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| You don’t own me.
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| I raise my middle finger to the man and WALK MY MILE AGAIN.
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| There’s a voice calling out to me that i recognize.
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| It’s a long, long haul.
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| It’s telling me now that it’s never too late to walk the good for once and for
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| all.
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| Still have the time i can own the deed.
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| Can’t see the starting line.
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| Oh!
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| but i can’t concede.
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| Cause i’ve been holding my head under water so long, i’ve forgotten how to
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| breathe … …
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| I gotta say do you want to take a chance.
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| I gotta say brother do you wanna dance?} I’m home do you wanna take a chance.
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| I’m on my way.
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| I make my way.
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| I’m on my way Stir my black coffee with my toothbrush, staring down the beast
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| of another day.
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| And i take it on the chin,…
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| cause i…
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| occupy a knuckle busting forty.
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| And everyday i walk my mile again … x2 |