| And they sayin look at how far we’ve came
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| With all that we know, and I ask where did we come and where do we go
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| Yo on that same path riding, surrender the truth
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| Shawn Bell driving, Emmett l in the passenger seat
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| I got some questions that mind can only naturally speak
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| Like are you enslaved to the ball and chain attached to your feet
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| To have a shallow way of life here, do I have to be deep
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| I’m living in this fuckin nightmare, do I have to be sleep
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| I can feel the rush in my veins when I think of Emmett, livin in the box
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| Keep telling yourself that skies the limit, that shit ain’t convincing
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| All I see is servitude and
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| To attach a fruit from his root too long, it eventually rot
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| I can see the sun on the horizon, yeah right I see an eclipse
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| Born story, perfectly written, without a prefix
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| But I narrate for the niggas that can’t
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| A black warrior representing for the niggas that ain’t
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| Pictures I paint got shades of gray
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| I’m cool on your prays and the amazing grace
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| Fuck your religion, holla address god face to face |
| Now I lay me down to sleep, but I can’t close my third eye
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| I may be like you and succeed on the first try
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| I may attempt to be like you, and succeed on the first try
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| Man, they bash the child’s face for looking at white women
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| Gave a youngin 50 shots, took the nigga life from him
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| If these trees could talk they ask you where’s their advances
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| Still trying shed the flesh and blood that was hung from his branches
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| I speak for Emmett, that’s real
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| I feel like somebody remembers me
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| Landlord, remember me
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| Aye, they say I rap like I got attitude, damn
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| If you young and got wisdom you to powerful
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| They wonder why I don’t stop, and I keep passing through
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| You do what they say, and they still laugh at you
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| They say life is like a box of chocolates, nah
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| Me, I say prison just a box for profits
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| If you ain’t drop up In the trap, then you can’t knock the violence
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| In the hood selling onions, just to stop from crying
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| I’m from where we like fight for fun
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| But I still gotta watch what I teach my son
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| He asked me for a pack of skittles, I told him no |
| He said why, cause they look like a gun
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| Food for thought, yeah that’s cool
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| Give me mine to go, then they force you too college
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| To brain wash you more
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| Then they kill your son, and say it was his time to go
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| If you can’t teach me what I don’t know, what I’m signing for
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| I’m getting tired, I’m exhausted from these slave bosses
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| He want the feeling of the good, look what they gave floss
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| When cap died I seen my eyes up in that same coffin
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| I’m looking around look what the game cost me
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| I guess the devil trying to come for me
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| I got 10 chains and not one can come from me
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| They gave Emmett 50 million just to run around
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| Just so we can forget the Emmett, they not our |