| You have a ball
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| You set alight
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| You throw it up
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| You don’t look…
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| Like what?
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| A trophy next to me
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| An analog, a metaphor, a synecdoche
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| An argument for a snap vasectomy
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| A median that means your hands have atrophied
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| Immediate discourse
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| I mediate six swords
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| A media trick horse
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| In medias res, dorks
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| «Drop right here when you’re ready to bounce
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| Fifteen years, Youngblood, get down»
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| Stay out of sight from the stars and critics
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| I’ve evaded the shit-hitting, fans are with it
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| Guard the color well -- yep, flags, get it?
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| I’m gonna set it off, you go home and shed it
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| I heard you twice the first time you said it
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| Keep rhymes embedded
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| Each guy a veteran pro at murdering shows
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| Burgers and bros
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| Your sentences blow
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| My sentences? |
| Whoa
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| A death: one on my bed for breakfast
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| My best hope: make it hot and forget this
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| Make good on a promise to rep this
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| Make fire by sparking a set list
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| Have a ball, set a light, throw it up, don’t look, do work
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| Just keep walking
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| Cause it’s all just a night in a club in a book
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| Truth hurts
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| Please stop talking
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| You have a ball
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| You set alight
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| You throw it up
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| You don’t look…
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| At the city with the most love for brass bands:
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| NOLA, the Crescent, where cats are playing
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| Tambourine like a Mardi Gras Indian
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| Need a beat? |
| Uncle Lionel, that’s the man!
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| Bring the heat on a motherfucking frying pan
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| Like the world commanded you to hit this here
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| Hoe blade, cowbell, bottle of beer
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| All signs of work turned to fire tonight
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| The kind of symphonies America doesn’t like
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| Who cares, they got a word no one else can write
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| And why does all our good work got to come out of strife?
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| The baddest kid you’ll never hear is in New Orleans for life
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| So here’s a simile, love:
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| I’m like a mic with a cord running from Wisconsin to the 6th Ward
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| Where there’s a drummer in a grave marked «Shavers»
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| And I bet he’s still wearing a Hot 8 shirt
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| The earth’s got a funny kind of paydirt
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| Yo Dinerral, plug me in, I gotta say words
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| Because I missed the funeral and the parade, sir
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| And I’m sorry your memorial’s a lame verse, but
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| Have a ball, set a light, throw it up, don’t look, do work
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| Just keep walking
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| Cause it’s all just a night in a club in a book
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| Truth hurts
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| Please stop talking
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| You have a ball
|
| You set alight
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| You throw it up
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| You don’t look…
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| You have a ball
|
| You set alight
|
| You throw it up
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| You don’t look
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| You have a ball
|
| You set alight
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| You throw it up
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| You don’t look
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| You have a ball
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| You set alight
|
| You throw it up
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| You don’t look
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| You have a ball
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| You set alight
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| You throw it up
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| You don’t look…
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| You don’t look… |