| «Oh, it’s so hard to be alone.»
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| It’s so hard baby. |
| So hard
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| It ain’t easy doin' what I do but ah, (No it ain’t, no it ain’t.)
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| I’m gonna go out here, I’mma get this paper
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| I’mma hit this road and I’ma…
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| And I’mma keep it on
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| Keep keep keep keep it on
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| Listen, (one two now) I say that I’mma keep it on
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| I say that I’mma keep it on
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| All day
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| All night
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| We gon' set the party off right
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| All night
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| And all day
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| It’s Jazzanova (yes sir) and Phonte
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| Now I’mma show you how to rhyme
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| Because your circle gettin' outta line
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| I made magic on these tracks like Merlin
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| When I’m in Berlin, ridin', swervin' down the Autobahn
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| A buck twenty or more
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| Doin' cities and tours
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| Write ditties that make the bitties get on the floor
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| Like Diddy they +Press Play+ but I press record
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| To give it to you quite like I never did it before
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| Fitted cap on the dome
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| Tattoos on the arm
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| Ladies love the kid, they really think he a charm
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| When he step off stage, the feelin' ain’t so warm
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| Go back to the room, call wifey and moms
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| Tell 'em how much I miss 'em, so the kids, just kiss 'em for me
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| And tell them, «Return, I shall.»
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| I know this type of livin' ain’t ration-al
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| But that’s the price for bein' international
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| You’re out here all alone
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| No place to call your own
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| So far from home
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| Feelin' all the pain and anguish
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| Prayin' that they speak the language
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| So far from home
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| Everybody know your face
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| As long as you know your place
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| So far from home
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| So far from home
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| So far from home
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| So far from home
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| There’s been so many tracks I don' rhymed on
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| In so many different time zones
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| Gettin' my grind on
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| Just doin' everything I can to get my shine on
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| I even dropped poems down in Stockholm
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| And sent niggas to the cosmos in Oslow
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| Pretty chicks rockin' tunics in Munich
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| People ask me every day why I do this
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| And I tell 'em all the time it’s all about the music
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| Cause I
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| If it wasn’t for this hip hop shit
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| These people wouldn’t treat me like the creme de la creme
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| Red carpet treatment, the chances are slim
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| I’d probably just be another nigga to them
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| Cause the young folks cool but the old folks cold
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| Be starin' like they never seen black people before
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| I know it ain’t ration-al
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| But it ain’t they fault, they not international
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| You know what I’m sayin'?
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| «Oh it’s so hard to be alone»
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| So close but still so far away
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| Hey hey hey
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| After a show at Jazz Cafe
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| I met a brother in the crowd and he said, «That I’m currently
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| In the military, but I’m from Greensboro»
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| I gave him a pound and I ain’t talkin' bout currency
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| I started thinkin' about my boys at the crib
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| Who dream of these places but won’t make it over
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| Rocked a million places and I’ve seen the sights
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| But when black people unite
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| Home feels much closer
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| Now what I’m sayin'?
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| On and on
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| Everybody keep it on and on
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| Like this uh
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| Jazzanova keep it on and on
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| One time keep it on and on
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| Like this uh
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| Little Brother keep it on and on
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| Everybody keep it on and on
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| Like this uh
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| Phontigga keep it on and on
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| Everybody keep it on and on
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| Go home c’mon |