| Someone get my city on the phone
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| Tell them I’m coming home
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| Spent a different kind of life on the road
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| Tell them I’m coming home
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| Many don’t make it where I come from I
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| Think we should make a toast
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| Come a mighty long way from the road
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| Tell them I’m coming home
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| It’s that motherfuck your couch I’m Rick James
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| They don’t know my story but they didn’t my name
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| Bet they knew my chin way before they knew my face
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| But I’d rather chase money than the stories these days
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| Read all about, re-read all about it
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| Made it from the rubble through the struggle to the mountain
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| Now I’m looking down at all the reasons why I doubted
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| Almost lost my way for a second but I found it
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| Almost lost my way but I’m Moses with the cane
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| Almost lost my brother he got able with the game
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| Still can’t feel my lungs but I’m in love with Mary Jane
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| Now I see the clouds from different kinds of paper planes
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| Never worked this hard to stay the same, I’m different
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| Got a new smile, got a new spirit got a new heart I’m lifted
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| Tell them badman keep their distance
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| Tell them badman keep their distance
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| Someone get my city on the phone
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| Tell them I’m coming home
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| Spent a different kind of life on the road
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| Tell them I’m coming home
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| Many don’t make it where I come from I
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| Think we should make a toast
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| Come a mighty long way from the road
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| Tell them I’m coming home
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| Someone get my mama on the phone she don’t have to miss me
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| Sending all the love I give to you, I go hipster with me
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| Night time from my lowest I get no-one I get demons with me
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| Now I rock the jungle with my pride I got Simbas with me
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| I know they been plotting on my angels
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| But they just can’t put dents in my halos
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| Save a penny save a pound save a peso
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| Hit them all before they lay low
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| Before I lay my crown hope I grow to make a queen
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| Royal from the soil throwing stones don’t make you king (ah)
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| Pray I don’t fall prey to violent things (ah)
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| Even with my back against the ring (ah)
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| Never worked this hard to stay the same, I’m different
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| Got a new smile, got a new spirit got a new heart I’m lifted
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| Tell them badman keep their distance
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| Tell them badman keep their distance
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| Someone get my city on the phone
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| Tell them I’m coming home
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| Spent a different kind of life on the road
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| Tell them I’m coming home
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| Many don’t make it where I come from I
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| Think we should make a toast
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| Come a mighty long way from the road
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| Tell them I’m coming home
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| And round and round and round and round
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| Much reason to celebrate
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| Young black boy dun made it you know
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| Let’s be honest
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| I could’ve flexed boy back when like Shakespeare with the bollocks
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| Fell from grace I don’t need forgiveness till I’m old in age reminiscing on my
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| golden days
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| Teaching wrong from right with my old mistakes hold the page
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| Let me get my mind right
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| These day’s I’d rather listen than talk
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| The wise man knows he knows nothing at all I
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| Put down the club on my evolutionary walk
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| That means I changed my own pathway before I could crawl as if fate decided
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| To let karma take the wheel I’m filled with a beautiful emptiness welcoming
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| You are welcome if I need time to help me then I’ll be it
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| Who’s words reach further
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| The man who whispers peace to find peace
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| Or that who yells his troubles some to exalt his troubles
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| Won’t you help me find the solace you promised
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| Trying hard to forget fleeting euphorias
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| I can’t keep on running if I don’t know what from
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| I can’t keep chasing a moment that’s already gone
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| So if I reach for the stars hope I fall on the moon
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| And if I fall hopefully they don’t forget me to soon
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| Tell my city I’m coming home |