My life is in the same house with 10 people who migrated from the village with hope.
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started
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Istanbul, here is the stone, the soil is gold
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Like most of our grandparents, mine also believed in it.
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from Istanbul
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I was born at Şişli State Hospital for 10 months.
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Yes, I was a little lazy
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Maybe I was a rebel when I was born
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Maybe I wanted to say no to this false world from the very first day.
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The streets where I grew up were pretty rough
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We were slums, many places were treasury land
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We were the lower class, families built other buildings during the day.
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If it was night, it was the deed of your own house.
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Feudal society, poverty and city life abroad
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Instead of village lords, bullies and bourgeois bosses
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Revolutionaries who believed that humanity is the strongest
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And a neighborhood they built, namely Nurtepe
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So bravery, so real struggle
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So love, honesty and sincere smile
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And the junta and the coup
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Killing people with beautiful faces and scraping the corrupt system with blood
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We used to go to school, we used to come, we were on the street every day
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10, 15 people gathered and we played all kinds of games.
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Sometimes we were bored, we used to raid the neighborhood
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And most of the time we used to rush into the opposing team in neighborhood games.
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I'm a man of truth but
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I'm the street of the street aga
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I'm the cross country of your city aga
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I'm the pro of the poor aga
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I'm a man of truth but
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I'm the street of the street aga
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I'm the cross country of your city aga
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I'm the poor man's pro
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I'm a man of truth but
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I'm the street of the street aga
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I'm the cross country of your city aga
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I'm the poor man's pro
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Growing up was playing football in the mud
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When it snowed in winter, it was skiing like a luxury sled with a bag.
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It was because my mother was afraid of events in the neighborhood
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And it was to be kidnapped to my grandfather's summer house where we took refuge.
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Growing up was meeting a platonic love
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So it was getting used to living with a hope that you hold on to.
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Succeeding in a shitty education system
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And it was always, for some reason, always being competed with the other
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If a torpedo favors when you don't get e points
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If the right wingers at school because you're a rapper
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If the left-wing youths in your neighborhood think they are Americans
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Your whole life's a rap if everyone opposes it
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Music and life conditions that I dream of
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The world I grew up inside and the cards of truth
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Go to work as a 17 year old dreamer
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Wash plates all summer to buy a computer
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And growing up, blinded by the ideal of my ambition
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I can't find my way somewhere between tuberculosis sleep and reality
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It's like petty bourgeois in summers and yellow in winters.
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It was like being friends with a poor man with a torn shoe.
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Dreams say: «Happiness is to remain a child»
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So to enlarge your dreams is to shrink yourself.
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If it's real, when your yellow shoe is torn, it's like the first day you bought it.
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be aware that you will not
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(Truth is awareness)
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I'm a man of truth but
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I'm the street of the street aga
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I'm the cross country of your city aga
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I'm the poor man's pro
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I'm a man of truth but
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I'm the street of the street aga
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I'm the cross country of your city aga
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I'm the poor man's pro
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I'm a man of truth but
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I'm the street of the street aga
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I'm the cross country of your city aga
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I'm the poor man's pro
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I'm a man of truth but
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I'm the street of the street aga
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I'm the cross country of your city aga
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I'm the poor man's pro |