| They don’t understand us, yeah
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| We don’t look down, just up, yeah
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| Rise, we’re fallin'
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| You know the tension is growin'
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| And everybody be hopin' that we just turn to ashes
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| Don’t think we got it, they countin' on us to drop it
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| But we burn bright cause we know it
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| They hopin' we turn back like
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| We ain’t like the world, we just livin' in the world like
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| Just let us do our thing
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| Killin' darkness as we speak, so
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| Ah-oh-ah-oh, we light up
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| Ah-oh-ah-oh, and look up
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| Ah-oh-ah-oh, just love, love, like
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| I’ma rise up in the end, what’s the point of fitting in?
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| Yeah, really started from the bottom, from the bottom (sure did)
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| I told Rey and Marty that we got 'em, we got 'em, yeah
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| HillaryJane over Hillary Rodham, Hillary Rodham, yeah
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| The new school is here to take over the building and rearrange it
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| To re-decorate it
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| They see us, they think that we made it
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| But we keep it humble, save time on a spaceship
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| Used to flip rounds with myself, I was faded
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| Fifteen minutes, I was very creative
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| I knew that one day I would make it, that I would make it!
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| Cause I ain’t tryna 35, broke and naked
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| So this is that flow that be tellin' them rappers that started rapping
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| yesterday that it’s over
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| Mind you we’re north in the month of October
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| And Jersey, they picked us up in a Range Rover
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| Really started from the middle, it’s crazy
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| Cause my flow since day one been amazing
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| But the favor of God is upon us
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| The only reason why we’re killin' it, honest
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| Been like this since I was just a kid
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| And I was runnin' with friends I knew for years
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| By the nickname and not the government
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| We definin' what ugly is, cause I never was a fan of the publishin'
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| All the magazines and the photoshop
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| Defend my city like I’m RoboCop
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| And hear the, bap-bap!
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| And I call the cops
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| And I just respond, I don’t call the shots
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| I just follow God, I don’t think too much
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| Cause if I do, that I might think it’s us
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| And I’m all black in my fitted tux
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| Never been the type just to live it up
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| I want my family straight and my mom good
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| And if we could beat the odds then you should
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| I mean, I know what I’m doin', I know what I’m doin'
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| I know what I need
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| Doin' my thing, I’m doin' my thing for nobody to see
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| Cause nobody cares, nobody cares until they believe
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| Just follow your heart, follow your heart until you succeed
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| We too busy shinin'
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| Like a diamond we never crack under pressure
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| Release us to the sky with the light as our disguise
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| Like a thousand sky lanterns ignite the night like ah-oh-ah-oh
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| Like ah-oh-ah-oh
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| Ignite the night like ah-oh-ah-oh, like ah-oh-ah-oh
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| Ignite the night like ah-oh-ah-oh, like ah-oh-ah-oh
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| Like a thousand sky lanterns |