| My mommy told me that I was a shining star
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| A bright light sort of a beacon amidst the dark
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| She stood me in front of mirrors and made me look at myself — not at what they
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| said I was but what I truly are
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| I couldn’t see the beauty i just saw a jagged scar
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| A high yellow short nappy headed flower wall
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| I meant to say wall flower pardon the slip of the tongue
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| Bearing your soul has never been a gift of the young
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| So i remain alien never inside the margins
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| Navigating treacherous roads without a compass
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| Hard for ghetto children to survive the world concious
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| They fairy tales is filled with poisonous apples and monsters
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| We shrink so we wouldn’t be the next set of targets
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| And thats how a diamond dulls after starting flawless
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| Absolutely flawless
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| PIERCE DARK SHADOW PIERCE THROUGH SOLID ARMOUR
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| VOCAL STREETS SWEEP A BUCK SOUTH THROUGH THE SPEAKER
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| STEP INTO MY ZONE MAD RHYMES WILL STIFLE YA X2
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| As innocence fades we bitterly age
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| Our days of youth are sentimentally praised
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| To soothe our memories of abuse
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| We came through the barrage
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| Our skins a little harder
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| Our pride was wounded
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| Our hearts totally guarded
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| My generation X became the living martyrs
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| Dodging — bullets and police department sergeants
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| The same time we claiming our sovereignty from the fraudulent
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| Do wicked rich have blindfolds or see us clearly starving
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| Sometimes our souls get lost up in the bargain, can’t you see the problem?
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| But every soldier that’s still fighting for freedom inspires yet another child
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| to keep believing
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| That heroes exist with black skin and full lips and dreams can be reality if we
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| can just persist
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| The wall thinks the strong can prevail if we learn as we grow to just resist
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| VOCAL STREETS SWEEP A BUCK SOUTH THROUGH THE SPEAKER
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| STEP INTO MY ZONE MAD RHYMES WILL STIFLE YA X2
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| PIERCE DARK SHADOW PIERCE THROUGH SOLID ARMOUR
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| VOCAL STREETS SWEEP A BUCK SOUTH THROUGH THE SPEAKER
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| STEP INTO MY ZONE MAD RHYMES WILL STIFLE YA X2
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| The roads clearer now, the way is nearer now
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| I see the beauty looking back inside the mirror now
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| Her light shines without shame and a nap strong
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| Her small frame a powerhouse born a warrior
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| We black diamonds, never stop shining
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| Just so used to suffering we stopped even trying
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| As cycles shift and dark clouds are lifting
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| We ride through the storms, shields up, no slipping
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| We are wiser now, stakes are higher now
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| Knowledge leads to wisdom understanding locks the cipher down
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| Then we free our culture, refine our power base
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| Level the playing field, peep the god inside our face
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| Destroy our weakness build a nation from a higher place
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| Born again as shining stars beaming from the light of space
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| And that’s cipher
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| PIERCE DARK SHADOW PIERCE THROUGH SOLID ARMOUR
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| VOCAL STREETS SWEEP A BUCK SOUTH THROUGH THE SPEAKER
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| STEP INTO MY ZONE MAD RHYMES WILL STIFLE YA X2 |