| People everywhere so disillusioned
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| Of the way the world is today
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| Everybody’s talking
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| 'bout who did what to who
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| How and when it got that way
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| I’m looking for an answer
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| Sometimes I want to quit
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| But I still got to try
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| When I see a baby girl
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| Caught up in that world
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| It brings a tear to my eye
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| She may not want to hear what i got to say
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| I was guilty of making that same mistake
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| Standing here trying to tell her what its about
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| Does she hear me
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| I remember his name from back in the day
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| Holding me huggin me loving just the same
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| Used to swear that I was his only one
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| Then I gave him some
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| And it was done
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| I tell it like it is
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| (tell it like it is ooh ooh)
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| Tell it like it is
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| (Oh oH Oh Oh Oh I got to Tell it like it is)
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| OH I got to tell it like it is
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| (Tell it like it is ooh ooh ooh)
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| Tell it like it is
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| OH OH Oh Oh tell it like it is
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| Read it in the paper
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| A young brother
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| With a bright future’s been shot and killed
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| Saw it on the news
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| A brothers been accused
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| How’s that supposed to make me feel
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| Pain deep in my heart
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| God please hear my cry
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| When I see a young brother lost in the world
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| It brings a tear to my eye
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| You may not want to hear what i got to say
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| But I witness the same old things everyday
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| Precious lies, family ties
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| Being thrown away
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| Do you feel me
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| I remember the good times from back in the day
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| Laughing joking thought it would never change
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| Mothers cry, children die
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| This is not the way
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| Now we’re putting flowers at his grave
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| I’ll Tell it like it is
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| (tell it like it is ooh oh ooh)
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| I’m gonna tell it like it is
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| (Oh oh oh Tell it like it is)
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| Oh I 've got to tell it like it is
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| (Tell it like it is oooh ooh oh)
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| I’m gonna tell it like it is
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| Tell it like it is |