| He wakes up from his sleep
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| He’s sitting upright in bed
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| He’s gon' get up off his feet
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| He’s gon' smoke a cigarette instead
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| Haunted by the man he wants to be
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| And all the fucking books that he read
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| Shit man, cause even in his sleep
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| He hears the beat in his head
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| It keep on going and going, writing poems
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| And flows 'em, so he can finally feel
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| Like someone finally know him
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| More so long that told him he stands up on that podium
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| People say that he on, they better off try to blow him
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| You’re more likely to catch a man
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| Writing some letters and wearing a gold letterman
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| Some how they let him in
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| Never felt settled in
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| But truth be told the best just kept on peddling
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| Money has never been, one of his best of friends
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| Had to bleed for a dollar
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| But damn, he felt better than in recent memory
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| Shit, more than he ever did
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| Ain’t an even playing field but he gon' level it
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| One more cigarette
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| Just one more, yeah, to set me free
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| Baby, one more cigarette (yeah)
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| Just one more, so I can finally breathe
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| And I’m living out my window
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| I didn’t mean to go so R.I.C
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| Baby, we don’t even hardly smoke (no)
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| Just one more, please one more
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| And I swear it’s the last one
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| And I only need one more (oh yeah)
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| It’s the last one (It's the last one)
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| And I only need one more
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| And I swear, it’s the last one (oh yeah)
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| Timing and timing, it just keep on rewinding
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| All the days he’s missed his father piping a haystack to find him
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| What makes you strong don’t kill you
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| What about that (?) with linings
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| Made of silver mother fucker, you lying, stop lying
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| He tells his son to his face that there’s no cheddar
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| Claims he’s sober, but he grew to know better
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| That ain’t skepticism, that’s defense mechanisms doing they job
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| Now he’s worried if his pops was dead or cuffed by the cops
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| At one point or another he was a bun in the oven
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| His mama love him, he can’t shake the feeling she don’t trust him
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| He said to fuck in the clouds, maybe a dreamer or something
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| The other son his brother sadly the fucker disgusting
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| Got a heart of gold but drowns in the substance
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| Really loves his alcohol, might as well be rubbing
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| Snorting and puffin', cutting and dipping abandoned his children
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| All of this bullshit living under one building like
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| I hop up out the bed to all this fuckin' shit
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| That my intellect can let go with the short end of the stick
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| I’mma write my manifesto sometimes I feel sick
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| Think about the ones I let go just so I can live rich
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| Like that would solve all my problems and minus I’m not brolic
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| If you don’t see that I’m special you can choke upon a dick
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| Here it is I gotta pick, wake up with no regrets
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| Shit he put me to the test and I ain’t seen a day yet
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| Maureen I love your daughter but I turned into a martyr
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| Cause I got to move farther, please I hope it makes sense
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| How my life is so Arthur, tryna outsell the Carters
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| Limelight make me darker and soon I face him
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| Pay me to say I’m angry but angry is what they made me
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| This be the last time you play me, you motherfuckers can’t save me
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| Hate me but learn to pay me even if you think I’m crazy
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| Or maybe you wanna slay me accept the fact that you ain’t me (2X) |