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Have you ever thought about what it would be If woke up and said "fuck work" Webs of small talk, caught up in this thing I try to relax, but I stay shaking the blue flame It keeps coming, this and that, that and Another me, well I add him to the list Flows and flows, the girls with the tight clothes Saying to get off in these back doors Irritating like on them thirties Ain't for no more friends, I got enough buddies A thousand attempts with thirty cents to name I got enough but I can't find the flame Sweet like honeysuckles, country like cha cha on the green Jumping fences and rooms with laughter Original gene grafter, more and more to eat Brews by the astronauts, turn the turn the watts up Listen to I said Cnn all day in your eyes and head
No longer can I ask when I'm in your Now it's hard to tell whether trying to hurt or help me At the bottom of this scraping Next time I to stand for self-determination Instead of always taking from Keeping the same color as you and me, to battle dna Let's to a remote city get back, have mercy Unravel and break the of chemical dependency Plastic can explode bits and pieces of my soul Shattering, just not being put together We can rule, but still brothers use that tool In between their shoulders, cold as bricks, nipples what better way to cripple An entire on the paper chase Getting my toes stepped on, then kicked in my Every time I my mouth I represent the south Dirty red, it was the lifestyle I led Worshipping vanity, fornicating out of Locked in yesterday's trunk of secrets, I Went from sugar to sheet Get rocks, sweet licks turn sour By the hour, over on tiger If that light on that meant go Say what you really mean, I For all the women I abused as a People got fifths out this dumpster
Compositions be able to make the connections From of living Why breath is god-given Appreciating, especially time do the educating In to know and the rain are both needed Or the seed can't It's given me some form of vision How the paragraphs are with precision evidence that this is no coincidence We've been Judge not by my skin color but my character's In no way is this an attempt to claim to be my people's situations, but I have moral obligations See I want to be all with god Long conversations at night god My arms are gonna always be too short to fight god To all this might not be But I can't help the way I do I that my reward won't come from any of you See everybody got a little light under the But I still want to share mine And you choose to do is on you You've got to stand on your own feet cause I got but two I can't knock you for not But I could for you not to learn Nor for asking, but I could for you not to earn No I can't, cause even had to tell me twice So this music is my sacrifice, so be dedicated Determinated and dependable, to demonstrate And use the correctly So forget the gold And uh, and uh Forget the head Forget it country Just remember what I