| Life. |
| Dreams. |
| Work
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| However, Work. |
| Dreams. |
| Life
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| It’s all about
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| Now old Mr. Patterson
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| Had us in his front yard
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| Explainin' all the reasons why his life so hard
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| I took a seat on his porch, right side of his hammock
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| He told tales of mishaps, somebody ever had it
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| That way it made his strong he said
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| I could feel him
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| Destiny shuffled up his cards and had to deal 'em to him
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| Straight up, no second round
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| Second time around
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| No time to half step
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| Man, you gotta put it down
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| What he said made sense
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| He told tales of war
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| Conflicts with men
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| Money, the whores
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| And the women he came across
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| Times he fell in love
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| The children who abandoned him
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| Promised that they would love
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| Him
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| Forever
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| But they never visit
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| Benefits dwindle, holiday visits so spread apart
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| So sparse
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| Loneliness and ghosts of heart wrench
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| But no one, the darkest days start
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| Which enable him to remark
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| His days of the past
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| His old army buddies
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| The trenches
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| The blasts
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| Explosions of memories sent shrapnel to my psyche
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| Explainin' my youth
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| He said, «You started off just like me
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| Got a hard head like me
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| Prepare for mistakes
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| But focus on your future
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| And you’ll make it through the gate.»
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| The gate
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| The gate
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| The gate
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| Building with a man who lived a life I want to grow upon the shoulders of an
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| older stone, I claim to carry
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| Started with a smoking session, in the Arizona desert
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| I deserved a fact, I insert the habits killin' me slowly
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| To prove I’m old at heart
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| To native beings to this continent
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| And compliment
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| The dreaming sequence is seemingly constant
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| In a Living Legendary pattern
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| That’s tattered and broken down, his name Willcro
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| The title (?) a blow to the ego that helped me and shoes
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| And intact, I lose to think I choose my destinal track
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| In simple terms he explained the way I function is wacked
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| The way I think attacks, my true purpose here on the green planet
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| Which is to share this wisdom, game in this life
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| I live under the name of the crow
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| I must know, I be stoked
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| Ancestry dating to ancient times waiting to die
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| I replied «that's not my function»
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| «In life» he retorted «there's no room for assumption, no room for a puncheon,
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| your not a violent person, silence is not the way to stay in the shadows
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| There’s many battles
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| That have to be fought, the man’s math is a tight ass way to be caught
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| Salem’s lot, death is the gateway to the next plateau
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| Life life
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| Almost everything I know and have known I was shown
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| Learned how to innovate but never would have grown
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| To be 23, goin' on 24
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| Knowin' on many more occasions
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| I need to stay in the right mind state
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| To make my impressions felt
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| Like a lesson learned from being punished
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| Blessin' in disguise though really
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| Not wise, so silly to think
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| That momma didn’t know what’s right
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| So when I show I’m tight
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| She gets props
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| And when I deal with a fight correctly
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| Thank my pops
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| He would check me on the art of
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| Being a man
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| And when I thought I was smart
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| I really didn’t understand
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| I really couldn’t see the plan
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| Working
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| Kinda like Dan thought Miyagi was just jerkin'
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| Him around
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| While he painted while the sun went down
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| When truly it was knowledge he was lucky he found
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| I’m on
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| Solid ground
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| Put a dollar down to learn
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| If you got something to share
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| Go head voice your concern
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| Cause who am I to be the U.N.I. |
| Verse (universal)
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| Alright, respect the dark to the light
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| And the young to the old |