| Put all your men in a average city
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| Had a share of problems don’t you know
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| Just the same the city had too
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| Time after time, my mama told
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| There’s a lotta things that you know
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| But there’s a whole lot more you need to know?
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| Money, have your own
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| Friends, just for fun
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| Drugs, don’t indulge
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| Sex with the right person?
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| Work all your day
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| Crime does not pay
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| Love don’t apply
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| Live, to live you must die?
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| And I can’t be late 'coz I was born not to know
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| Things are getting crazy, I ain’t getting lazy
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| I was born not to know
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| Now since I’ve grown, I’ve learned a lot more
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| The city hasn’t changed a bit since
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| Doesn’t mean I have to live like this
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| I still can recall what my mother told me
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| There was a lot of things that I knew
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| But the ones my mother said were true
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| Money, had my own
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| Friends, we had fun
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| Drugs, didn’t indulge
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| Sex, had the right person
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| Work, all my day
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| Crime did not pay
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| Love did not apply
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| Live, now I live but I gotta die
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| And I can’t be late 'coz I was born not to know
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| I ain’t gonna make a fuss, I like the back of the bus
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| 'Coz I was born not to know
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| I was born not to know
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| I was born not to know
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| I was born not to know |