| Yeah I hear you fool…
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| Well let me get up outta here, my ride out here waitin' for me
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| (Alright cat daddy, take it easy baby)
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| You stay up fool
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| (Peace)
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| He greets his father with his hands out
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| Rehabilitated slightly, but glad to be the man’s child
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| The world is different since he’s seen it last
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| Out of jail, been seven years and he’s happy that he’s free at last
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| All he had was his mother’s letters
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| Now he’s mobile and he’s gotta make a change and make it for the better
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| But he’s black so he’s got one strike against him
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| And he’s young, plus he came up in the system
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| But he’s smart and he’s finally making eighteen
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| And his goal’s to get on top and try to stay clean
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| So he’s calling up his homie who done came up
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| Livin' lavish, now they dealin' with the same stuff
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| And had that attitude that who he was was worth land
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| And with that fucked up attitude he killed his first man
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| Now it’s different, he done did dirt
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| And realized killin' men meant comin' up but it still hurt
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| And can’t nobody change this
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| It’s 1994 and we up against the same shit
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| I never understood why
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| I could never see a man cry 'til I seen a man die
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| Imagine life at it’s full peak
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| Then imagine lying dead in the arms of your enemy
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| Imagine peace on this Earth when there’s no grief
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| Imagine grief on this Earth when there’s no peace
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| Everybody’s got a different way of endin' it
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| And when your number comes for souls, then they send it in
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| Now your time has arrived for your final test
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| I see the fear in your eyes and hear your final breath
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| How much longer will it be 'til it’s all done?
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| Total darkness at ease be at all one
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| I watch him die and when he dies let us celebrate
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| You took his life, but your memory you’ll never take
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| You’ll be headed to another place
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| And the life you used to live will reflect in your mother’s face
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| I still gotta wonder why
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| I never seen a man cry 'til I seen a man die
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| I hear you breathin' but your heart no longer sounds strong
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| But you kinda scared of dying so you hold on
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| And you keep on blacking out and your pulse is low
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| Stop trying to fight the reaper, just relax and let it go
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| Because there’s no way you can fight it though you’ll still try
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| And you can try it 'til you fight it but you’ll still die
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| Your spirits leave your body and your mind clears
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| The rigor mortis starts to set, now you outta here
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| You start your journey into outer space
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| You see yourself in the light but you’re still feeling outta place
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| So you standing in the tunnel of eternal life
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| And you see the ones you never learn to love in life
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| Make the choice, let it go if you can back it up
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| If you ain’t at peace with God you need to patch it up
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| But if you ready, close your eyes and we can set it free
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| Here lies a man not scared to die, may he rest in peace
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| I still got to wonder why
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| I never seen a man cry 'til I seen that man die |