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These seconds, these minutes right here |
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You know who they belong to? |
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Us |
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That's why they call 'em ours |
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It took sacrifice, much loss before the gain |
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Paid a drastic price, misfortune and disdain |
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Framed a shattered life, the forfeits and the pain |
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All the saddest sights, the coffins and the stains |
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On days wish I could save the children that we was |
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We didn't spare they eyes from all the killings and the drugs |
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Steppin' and protectin' them from feelin' any slugs |
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Many ways mediate, the savior healin' any grudge |
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'Cause in and out the lab bouts was bad, so habits grew |
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The steel cold, you don't grow real old actin' new |
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And you can count from all my accounts, the stats is true |
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To think some was tickled pink when we was beat black and blue |
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A knave to say we show it sympathy cause I know essentially |
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All the dastard actions that was happenin', I was meant to see |
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Dug a lot of work when I was broke and inoperative |
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Felt a lot of hurt before I spoke this provocative |
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Heart was ice for that cream, tryin' to scoop money |
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Now breathe for seeds, whether you throw dirt or root for me |
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These seconds, these minutes are ours |
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These seconds, these minutes are ours |
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These seconds, these minutes are ours |
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These seconds, these minutes are ours |
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They ours |
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So do what you gotta do man, cause you dont get no more |
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A finite number |
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Gotta seize every, every moment |
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From crooked boy to honest man, the latter's gone |
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I speak promised land, the common plan - Babylon |
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My thwarted thoughts faced for years probably ran marathon |
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I care to say, if I ever sail away, the plan's Avalon |
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I vent for all the days I spent positioned in the basement |
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Feel I had to heal myself, physician and the patient |
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Was urged home for all the wrong, my riff with immigration |
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I boast to learn my culture 'fore I picked assimilation |
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The dose of lies, up close you'll find raps they wisen |
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At most they rhyme to gross, mine's appetizing |
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Peep the god though, I speak a hard flow of argot |
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To steal for meal but for real, I used to starve though |
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The routes I scored I doubt the Lord ever condone |
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Steps was reckless, reppin' for precious metals and stone |
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But now knowledge power, this assemblance evidence shown |
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Walk with ghosts of close family and friends, I'm never alone |
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These seconds, these minutes are ours |
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These seconds, these minutes are ours |
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These seconds, these minutes are ours |
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These seconds, these minutes are ours |
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So accept this - not for its intrinsic value, but as a token |
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These hours are ours |
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Make a better place |
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Mines, yours |
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It's our time |
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This that good shit, the fly shit, the real shit |
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Build, **** all that destroyin', let's live |
