| I hope (I hope)
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| I hope with the highest of hopes
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| That I never have to go back to the trap
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| And my days of dealing with dope
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| So I, I only spit fire and dope
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| So later on you can go quote
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| My lines to your people and folk
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| And they say damn (damn)
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| That boy be spitting that pressure (pressure)
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| And he be smoking that pressure (pressure)
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| And he smart as a professor (yessir)
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| 25 lighters on dresser, pound of that pressure
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| Sittin right next to (next to)
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| Next to a book and a gun
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| Ballot or bullet, you better use one
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| One time for the freedom of speeches (speech)
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| Two time for the right to hold heaters (heaters)
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| Just skip to the fifth with the cops in the house
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| Close your mouth and pray to your Jesus
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| Ask why cause the Devil a lie (lie)
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| So I stay holy and high (high)
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| May never get rich, but I never bitch
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| 'Cause I made it here by and by
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| My, my, y'all
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| I coulda died, y'all
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| A couple times I took my eyes off the prize, y'all
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| I know a few people pray for my demise, y'all
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| But like cream, I had to rise, I had to rise, y'all
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| Oh my, y'all
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| I coulda died, y'all
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| A couple times, I took my eyes off the prize, y'all
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| I know a couple people pray for my demise, y'all
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| But even birds with broken wings want to fly, y'all
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| You're gonna need a bigger boat, boys, you're in trouble
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| Gonna need a little hope, boys, on the double
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| You muckin' with a G here, see talk to me
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| Or maybe listen to the man that barely dodged his own lobotomy
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| Pop the tape in baby, we got shit we wrote for you
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| Came from feeling what a pure absence of hope can do
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| Only to leap through flaming rings and break the nose of crews
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| Still in their wings'll be them darlings of hope they've broken you
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| (Yeah, they better hope that) I'm a full force and a cold fact
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| See the cold floor, where I licked dirt when the dough dried and pride died
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| Had a bud max, had to shop right
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| Gimme two meals and the lights on
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| Imma do right, get a new crew
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| Make a new life, never boo hoo
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| Never lose sight, I'm true dude
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| With a burst heart from a old soul
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| Better stop drop when the squad's hot, we don't stop a lot
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| We don't talk a lot about it, we just pop it off a lot
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| I'm high, man, I'm a cosmonaut
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| Scream, "Fuck 'em," 'til they lop our bloody noggins off
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| I promise y'all
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| My, my, y'all
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| I coulda died, y'all
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| A couple times I took my eyes off the prize, y'all
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| I know a few people pray for my demise, y'all
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| But like cream, I had to rise, I had to rise, y'all
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| Oh my, y'all
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| I coulda died, y'all
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| A couple times, I took my eyes off the prize, y'all
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| I know a couple people pray for my demise, y'all
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| But even birds with broken wings want to fly, y'all |