| Never thought I’d get a second chance
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| These lessons never made me less of a man
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| And some of these lessons were second hand
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| Instead of dead became a better man
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| With Doogie and T we was wilding out
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| Long Island ice and women were out
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| Drunken nights at the embassy Gin and the Hennessy
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| Throwing up right in the mezzanine
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| Did it for thrill of it girls they were feeling it moving
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| They hips to rhythm like a ventriloquist
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| Player certificate never reciprocate
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| Betting on tables amounts were significant
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| Bottle would pop models would drop in followed
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| By cops we would play by the margin
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| Play by the margin like Soldiers we marching
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| Life ain’t a choice if you don’t know options
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| Skeletons up in the closet we lock in
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| Lawyers and documents nobody talking
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| Life ain’t always a walk a park peaches and cream
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| We was deep in a dreams
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| Peeping the scene as scenery darkens
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| Taking some sleeping pills mix it vodka
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| Breathing in the oxygen with OxyContin
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| IV in my veins the doctors is watching
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| It’s like a debacle life is a novel
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| When you see light like they write in the gospel
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| That glimpse of nirvana the calm and the quiet
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| Now you believe in karma u saw the messiah
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| Ya body sucks ya back in to itself
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| That’s the epiphany free from the spell
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| We tricking ourselves
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| Live in a prison we built for ourselves chasing
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| This dream and we killing ourselves
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| Are we living in heaven or living in hell
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| That’s Raekwon and ghost
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| You can hate on my drive you can hate on my growth
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| You hate on my image can’t hate on my flow
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| Had to grind to put my name on a show
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| You hating yourself like you Raven Simon
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| Went thru fraudulent manager bruises and
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| Bandages Cougars and amateurs groupies with laminates
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| Rumors is damaging I move in manner the jewels
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| That I drop either Ruby or amethyst
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| Orbit the sun Comoros islands my origin sun
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| Trade a fist for a sword and a sword for a gun as a
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| Youth all I was looking for was a lung
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| Youngin with asthma my brain in a cast
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| Fought it myself I was able to last
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| Too short to play ball I was able to snap
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| Couldn’t speak English was able to rap
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| Parents is gone still my spirit was strong
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| Intro-verted was living withdrawn
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| Sky’s the limit my eyes on the prize
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| Polly with vixens my eyes on the thighs
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| Nobody knew me now I’m on the rise
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| Kept my convictions was honest with mine
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| We dropping bombs on anonymous lives
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| New babies is born and then somebody dies
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| The cycle of life we recycle the vice
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| We surviving we rightfully fight for our rights
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| Harbor the pain in the heart there’s a flame
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| All too often seems we caught in the rain
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| Gave u part of my soul is it offered in vain
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| So many making checks off of my name
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| All for the fame and the dough and the women
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| Offered my pain all too often I couldn’t
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| Stomach the fact I was my stuck in the past
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| Still after years miss the fuck out my dad
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| And never really talked about that
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| And nah don’t wanna talk about that
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| Haters and commentators asking for favors
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| Patrolman at customs is asking for papers
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| Travel to places, bookers and agents
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| Doing it major around Pretty faces
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| Took a while to see the fruit of my labor
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| Now put my name in a group with greatest
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| Who can debates? |
| who can debase us?
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| Remember I recorded tunes in the basement
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| My momma was yelling I kept her awake
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| I’m a buy that woman a crib by the lake
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| Live what I make every mistake
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| All of the good every evil I face
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| Made me a man from the worst made the best
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| Until the day that they lay me to rest |