| Ayo, The road is so long plus winding, something like the letter S
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| Several lefts and rights, it’s ugly like a sweater vest
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| I’m on a quest for number one that' s why I never rest
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| No second best, I’m coming up as high as Everest
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| I write to get respect while others write to get a check, son
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| My mic 's my weapon in this culture I’mma wet til death do us part
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| Through this art I found a way to express
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| The rage and excess, the weights on my chest
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| From all the frustration, the stress
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| The blood, sweat, and tears accumulated over my twenty-plus spent years
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| On the grind working hard to find my way to success
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| Of the mind word is born, no time for laying depressed
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| But every day that I awake and I’m blessed I shall improve
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| While I say that I' m the greatest and best to hold the tool
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| By the way special guest he bless us be from Marco
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| It’s the Large Professor, Extra P, the Large Pro
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| It’s the long, winding road, cause what we been told
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| Keep your dreams on your goal while rustling dough
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| Look back, sync the new pad and the bookbag
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| Fully stacked, in fact make a hoodie your hat
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| Make whips your kicks
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| What you wearing? |
| Bottom line: Beanie' s jacked
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| They busting, tell ' em ease back
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| And jump off mine, I got a player more fine
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| Got back on track now the greatest of all time is here
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| Sorry I had to disappear
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| But you know how it goes when you walking that long, winding road
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| People you walk with might quit
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| Ain 't too many dudes really built for the night shift
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| When things get dark
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| Got to roll up your sleeves, not fall off the swings in the park
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| Like a kid again. |
| Problem: I get it in
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| Until the team come home with a win
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| As I begin the next chapter
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| Narrowing down, the X-Factor
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| My ode dedicated to the long, winding road
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| The road I’m on is kind of narrow
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| Eyes on the road, caution on curves
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| Careful!
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| We lock it down with persistence, yo, y’all won’t be fading our style
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| The kinda shit you never heard that ain' t been made in a while
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| Always going the extra distance can’t be
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| Probably be some millionaires if we was paid by the mile
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| But in actual capacity pound sacks with veracity
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| When life throws you curves you bounce back with tenacity
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| Just like the arch is getting stepped on sucker
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| We mash the pedal, pound the pavement like we kept on trucking
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| On this highway to courage many have fell
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| To turn our depths of misery, a personal hell
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| Seen some plenty come and go, thoughts of best the fear of foolery
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| Walking the same stretch since the yesteryears of puberty
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| Never meant to get guts spilled cattle
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| Forgot the soul through this uphill battle for toe
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| To all these bitches way too bold for their britches
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| Break the strong, buy the gold, we bust a load on your stitches
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| When G Rap had pointed me to the road to the riches
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| That shit just made me want to go on adventure
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| For that hidden treasure, only concern was on getting better
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| Thought it was simple like knitting a sweater
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| But if you long winding, all the more you go on finding
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| Out the key to a straight path a strong mind and spirit
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| Grab hold of your heart and gear it
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| Towards good, baseballs and Boys in the Hood
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| Rap world was in High School high
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| Golf lessons bestowed on the guy from that God in the sky
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| Now I rock with Marco down the block from the sty
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| Years later still on and looking for the next wind in the road
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| And it’s a good thing I' m in the mood
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| Got a make life longer and plus bring in a load
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| Of that crisp green currency, never in a hurry see
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| I know this game is a long winding road |