| Dear self
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| It’s me in the mirror I wanna help
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| And every time that you’re in front of me
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| I worry about your health
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| You ain’t getting any younger
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| I see the lines under your eyes
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| And how you fluctuate with weight
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| And how to layer up in disguise
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| I see you fix yourself up for the public
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| And try to find your place
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| I see the other sides emotional
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| Behind a painted face
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| I see a kinda faded trace
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| Of a kid who wanted to make it
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| And animosity for everyone
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| In line who tried to take it
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| See the hunger and the pain
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| In the lost blank stare
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| But you never focus solely
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| On the ones that really care
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| Say that you don’t make sense
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| But you make bucks
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| You been about it since the first
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| And you still don’t give a fuck
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| I be seeing when you brush yo teeth
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| Rapping in the mirror
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| Hoping that I repeat
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| I can make a change
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| If only in me
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| I can strive to be the person
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| That I really wanna be
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| I can make a change
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| If only in me
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| I can strive to be the person
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| That I really wanna be
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| No excuses gonna hold me back again
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| See You were for me now
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| See You were there for me then
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| We can do it if we focus on change
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| Let it flow like the blood in the veins
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| We can do it
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| If we keep it on track
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| Only get one life
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| Time to take it all back
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| I been down to hell so I know where the devil’s son is at
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| Told him like Chappelle on the real we ain’t comin back
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| And we been on a trail ever since like a couple ants
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| Watch it all prevail in the face of the struggle can’t
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| Even get a flail outta us for your trouble that
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| Has to put the nail through the heart of your bubble
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| I never been afraid to fail I’ll just crawl through the ruble
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| Turn a single to a double, on nothin but hustle
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| Got the Blade under ya stubble don’t even mumble
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| Is what it could of been if the plan had stumbled
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| Had to be more than a drip in a land of puddles
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| Quarterback the huddle fuck a deal let the cards shuffle
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| Life’s a hard puzzle
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| With ya bark muzzled
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| Bunch of dark tunnels
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| Not at all subtle
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| Sometimes you gotta think for yourself
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| And let all the mistakes fall to somebody else
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| I know There ain’t many breaks
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| We can all use the help
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| If all I’m givin is hate
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| Then I’m right back in hell
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| I can make a change
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| If only in me
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| I can strive to be the person
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| That I really wanna be
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| No excuses gunna hold me back again
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| See You were for me now
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| See You were there for me then
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| We can do it if we focus on change
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| Let it flow like the blood in the veins
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| We can do it
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| If we keep it on track
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| Only get one life
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| Time to take it all back
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| We can do it
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| If we keep it on track
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| Only get one life
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| Time to take it all back
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| We can do it
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| If we keep it on track
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| Only get one life
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| Time to take it all back |