| I walk in the streets and I ask him
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| Asked him a question is this a war going on out here
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| What you see out here is just one of the fires now blazing
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| Now raging across the city we got here first
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| So ten minutes before the fire crews arrived
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| And they obviously got a lot on their hands
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| I’d like to do this porn for y’all tonight
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| It’s called city lights
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| I wrote it on a rainy day
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| Look how pretty the city lights are
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| Burn baby burn burn
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| Burn hope
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| Look how pretty the city lights are
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| Burn baby burn burn
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| Burn hope
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| Look how pretty the city lights are
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| If I like this news rate
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| We can watch the flames dance under the moonlight
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| As the smoke swirls and twirls like the Tatcha
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| The building disappears like Walla
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| You see we had a community leader
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| But the government killed him
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| When they found him they killed him in front of his woman and children
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| They ain’t hide shit is was nothing to shield 'em
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| Just publicly filled 'em with a slug to the grilled 'em
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| Humble till they swum the stilling
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| That’s why we at this government building
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| Throwing Molotov’s at it for our brother
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| Burning before another holocaust happened
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| When my nigga fell I see all of y’all clapping
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| Now it’s your turn to hit the trail give 'em a trip to hell
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| I’ma send all of y’all packing and wish 'em well
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| A lunatic like a disease driver giving you a lift I’m Uber sick
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| I’m sick in the mind cuz I’m sick of being treating like
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| My skin is a crime now the enemies mine yeah
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| I went from NSA to the military kind
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| Cuz they killing us over a nickel and dime
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| Killing us 15 sin at time
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| Pyromaniacs you made us
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| Now that corn house is blood is getting blazed up
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| Look how pretty the city lights are
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| Burn baby burn burn
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| Burn hope
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| Look how pretty the city lights are
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| Burn baby burn burn
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| Burn hope
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| Look how pretty the city lights are
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| They calling me an arsonist
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| But when I strike 'em at your draws a flame I’m on my artist shit
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| Where were you when we was drinking water full of arsenic
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| From your pipeline causing a lifetime of retarded kids
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| Up in your big house chilling without a doubt
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| When my homie was on the street blood spilling up out his mouth
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| Robocop standing over him with a smoking gun
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| Poking fun at the hole in his lung
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| That’s why we sticking you cowards out of our hood
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| Out of our sight comedy out of our pain mockery’s out of our strife
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| My life, my life I just want to survive in this crazy world
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| Bullets want to stop me from reading stories to my baby girls
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| So it’s bandanas over the face as I firebomb the precinct
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| So much smoke you damn made me hurl
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| Then I stumbled outside so I could enjoy the fireworks
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| Fuck the empire we riders
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| Look how pretty the city lights are
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| Burn baby burn burn
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| Burn hope
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| Look how pretty the city lights are
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| Burn baby burn burn
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| Burn hope |