| What’s your life about? |
| Enlighten me
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| Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet?
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| There’s fire in the street, fire in the swisher
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| Fire in between the two legs of your lil' sister
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| Just get a sip of this elixir
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| before they crop us out the picture
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| I’ve never seen a crop circle
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| but I’ve cops circle the block, I puff squares
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| But I swear one day I’ma stop, my nerves itch
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| On the brink of my career while my peers struggle for employment
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| Can you hear these screams? |
| (Uncle Sam ain’t no killing me)
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| One, two, three, four grams and a fifth of Hennessy
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| A bad bitch, fuck the penitentiary
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| Section 80's babies, blame Ronald Reagan
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| We raising hell
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| Lord forbid
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| The homie got wet, so we tryna soak it in
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| The president is black, but you can’t vote for skin
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| You vote for the better man
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| Come to our show, you can see the diversity
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| Unify the people, they gon' peep it universally
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| We might not change the world, but we gon' manipulate it
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| I hope you participating
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| Aiyyo Dot, won’t you let these cats know?
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| We knew we’d be here like back in '04
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| Started HiiiPoWeR because our generation needed a generator
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| and the system made to disintegrate us
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| And all we do is assist 'em
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| We’re not victors, we’re victims
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| The bigger picture isn’t developed yet
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| Like, what if kids were celibate?
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| Or what is Tammy came across a real man
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| who didn’t play games like chil-dren?
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| My nigga cheated on his girlfriend
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| with his girlfriend’s girlfriend, let the world end
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| And everybody tripping off twenty-twelve
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| and the extraterrestrial presence as well
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| (Odd Future’s aight) but our future’s not
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| That martial law shit drop, we gon' all get got
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| So keep that question mark on your face
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| Eat your fast-food, use your fluoride toothpaste
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| Hide your feelings from the public, work your lil' nine-to-five
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| Don’t forget to pay your tithes, and thank God you alive (HiiiPoWeR)
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| And on another note
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| we focussed like the Hubble Telescope, 'Soul
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| Life is a traffic jam (life is a traffic jam)
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| Life is a traffic jam
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| Life is a traffic jam
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| Life is a traffic jam
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| Life is a traffic jam (ready to go)
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| Life is a traffic jam (ready to go)
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| Life is a traffic jam (ready to go)
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| Life is a traffic jam
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| Life is a traffic jam
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| I wrote this because I was ordered to
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| People say I speak for generation Y
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| Why lie? |
| I do
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| Section 80, your son will play me if radio won’t
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| Daughters that just turned one to twenty-one listen to Kendrick
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| For instance
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| What’s your life about? |
| Enlighten me
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| Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet?
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| Take out that student loan and pay off your college degree
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| and do exactly what you see on TV
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| True story
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| Hmm, can you repeat that for me 'Soul?
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| What’s your life about? |
| Enlighten me
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| Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet?
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| Is you gon' plead the fifth or sound the horn?
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| The time is now my child, come on
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| See a lot of y’all don’t understand Kendrick Lamar
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| because you wonder how I could talk about money, hoes, clothes, God and history
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| all in the same sentence
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| You know what all them things have in common?
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| Only half of the truth if you tell it
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| See I spent twenty-three years on this earth searching for answers
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| till one day I realised I had to come up with my own
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| I’m not on the outside looking in, I’m not on inside looking out
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| I’m in the dead fucking centre looking around
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| You ever seen a newborn baby kill a grown man?
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| That’s an analogy for the way the world make me react
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| My innocence been dead
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| So the next time I talk about money, hoes, clothes, God and history
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| all in the same sentence
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| just know I meant it, and you felt it
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| cause you too are searching for answers
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| I’m not the next pop star, I’m not the next socially aware rapper
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| I am a human motherfucking being over dope ass instrumentation
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| Kendrick Lamar
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| Now fuck 'em up Terrace
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| ('Soul!)
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| I watch this fire that we’re gathered around
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| and see that it burns similar to the fire that burns inside you
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| Section 80, Section 80 babies
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| A generation of bliss and disobedience
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| No they can’t control us, no they can’t control you
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| No they can’t control us, but we control each other
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| We build our own world
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| If you don’t leave with nothing else tonight, you will leave with knowing
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| yourself
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| You will leave knowing you represent something that’s bigger than all of us
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| or our family
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| Heart, honor and represent
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| This is you, this is me, and we are HiiiPoWeR |