| My girl wants to buy a house
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| But my credit so bad that I couldn’t get a loan to buy a couch
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| I could tell that she’s disappointed when I pull the bong out
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| Letters from the IRS arriving at mom’s now
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| Man, I guess that’s just what happens here
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| Mid-twenties trying to salvage a rap career
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| Skip doing taxes to grab a beer, haven’t worked out in like half a year
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| Sleep past the aurora, don’t give an iota
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| Can’t afford the aioli, no heart beat how my aorta
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| I gotta stop this shit and be prosperous like a pamphlet, brochure
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| Because my predicament, it’s sickenin', it’s gruesome like a growth spurt
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| On this road to ruin, I don’t see no stop sign
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| But this car works and I’m not dead and it’s sunrise, so I got time because
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| Now’s not too late
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| To start fresh today
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| So I could stop living a lie
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| And I could start living alive
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| Now’s not too late
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| To start fresh today
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| So I could stop living a lie
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| And I could start living alive
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| It’s not too late
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| If it was, I’d give up right now but I could do a lot today
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| I could quit it all cold turkey and I could make a hot soufflé
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| You see, fate is in my pinchers
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| I could reach far like timbers or get feet charred by cinders
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| But I’m living a lie, living a lie
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| Will I win or lose? |
| That’s up for me to decide
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| I’m not infallible, nope, I’m the sum of my flaws
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| And I know my future’s as malleable as gum in my jaws
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| And I know each day is valuable, so I’m taking my chances
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| My insight is that you can’t get enlightened from lampin'
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| Even if you’ve been wrong all your life, you could still get shit right
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| If you’re not at death and you got one breath then you could still see the light
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| I’m pulling over on the bridge, I see a kid
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| The look in his eyes says, «I don’t wanna live»
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| Then I hop out of the whip and I walk through the traffic
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| He says, «I can’t do it» and then I looked right at him, I told him
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| «Now's not too late
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| To start fresh today
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| So I could stop living a lie
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| And I could start living alive
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| Now’s not too late
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| To start fresh today
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| So I could stop living a lie
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| And I could start living alive»
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| Look back at the path, are there puddles of blood?
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| And lakes of tears in the tracks?
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| Is there darkened perspiration in the nook of your arm? |
| If not
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| I expect to see a look of alarm, because you haven’t been tryin'
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| You’ve been maxin' 'n' slackin', you’ve been roastin' 'n' coastin'
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| You’ve been chillin', buildin' sandcastles next to the ocean
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| Man, the seas are risin', I see a diseased horizon
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| You’re gonna be ghost up in that moat if we don’t see you flyin'
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| Everything is swell up in your cerebellum
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| You make so many excuses that it’s too bad you can’t sell 'em
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| You roll out like a dice game, when the fight came
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| Opportunities missed like a light rain
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| You worry 'bout the future while you live in the past
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| I know it’s lonely at the top plus the middle is packed
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| So what I like to do, is trudge from the morning till the night is through,
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| in my hikin' boots
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| And they grip and grind and they slip and slide but every day, my height is new
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| I’m telling you
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| Now’s not too late
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| To start fresh today
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| So I could stop living a lie
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| And I could start living alive
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| Now’s not too late
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| To start fresh today
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| So I could stop living a lie
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| And I could start living alive |