| Sat at attention
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| You’re always late
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| Can’t pay attention
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| 'Cause there’s a light on your plate
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| You’re missin' the school so the teachers quit
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| Oh, what you gonna do?
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| When you’re just a kid
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| Well, they don’t know 'bout your story
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| Your life has only begun
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| No, they don’t know 'bout your story
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| Don’t let them say how it ends
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| They took away your cousins and your daddy, too
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| You can’t get a job
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| And the rents all but due
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| Your mother got a lawyer that she just can’t afford
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| You think you’re grown, but you’re
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| Still a boy
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| Well, they don’t know 'bout your story
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| Your life has only begun
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| No, they don’t know 'bout your story
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| Don’t let them say how it ends
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| One day
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| You’ll grow in, and
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| One day
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| They’ll know just how hard it was to say no
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| To a life under street lights
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| Running from street fights
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| Its hard to leave your friends on the roads
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| One day
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| You’ll grow in, and
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| One day
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| They’ll know just how hard it was to say no
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| To a life under street lights
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| Running from street fights
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| Its hard to leave your friends on the roads
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| No, they don’t know 'bout your story
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| Your life has only began
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| No, they don’t know 'bout your story
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| Don’t spend your life in the end
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| Yo, what’s up Ray, I hope you’re amazin', sis
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| I’m sending so much love, ifs dynamite
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| I just want to take a second here
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| To reach out to all the young people out there
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| You know, far and wide
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| Life can be so challenging
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| You know? |
| But whatever may be throwing of your way right now
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| I would love to remind you of your strength
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| To remind you of how far you’ve come
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| To remind you to check your own history
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| Check all the things you’ve overcome thus far
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| For those of you that are sufferin' or strugglin'
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| You know, please don’t suffer in silence
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| Find someone to support you
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| You know, there’s so much pressure
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| So much pressure out there, but you know what?
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| Ifs a new day
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| Ifs a new day, and the thing is
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| You are the new day
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| You are the new day
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| You’re the gift |