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T.I. - Castle Walls Ft. Christina Aguilera |
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everyone thinks that i have it all |
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but it’s so empty living behind these castle walls |
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these castle walls |
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if i should tumble if i should fall |
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would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls |
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there’s no-one here at all, behind these castle walls |
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observing the estate through the gate from the outside looking in |
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bet you would think i got it made, better look again |
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i got buttler, got a maid, and a mansion |
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the belief is that i’m living out a millionaires fantasy |
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with pantoms and ferrari’s in the driveway |
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but you see the pain and the change of the same man’s |
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your vision jaded by the grammy’s on the mantelpiece |
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just switch your camera lenses you would see the agony |
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apparantly it’s damaging the man you see before you |
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on the canvas he may seem alright |
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but all the diasadvantages his family |
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encounters overpowers his extravagance |
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walk in my ? i dare you |
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while it really seem like the kings life aint glamourous |
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as seen through the eyes of untrained amateurs |
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because the camera’s don’t see beyond the walls of the smiles |
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only counts until it falls in the pile |
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everyone thinks that i have it all |
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but it’s so empty living behind these castle walls |
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these castle walls |
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if i should tumble if i should fall |
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would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls |
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there’s no-one here at all, behind these castle walls |
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honestly to me, |
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i think i’d lose every benefit of all that i’ve accomplished |
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if my key is never with it, sh-t |
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me knowing this, why should the verses i have laid |
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be more important to me than the persons i have raised |
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i guess i’m saying that to say that ooportunity |
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but they just don’t equate to all the time they take away |
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from the kids all the sh-t i did right is a mistake |
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if deyjah end up a stripper and major slinging yay |
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how could i ever consider myself a great |
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if messiah ain’t paid and nique nique ain’t straight |
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would your favourite song about the whips, money and sh-t |
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be relevant if you found out, the money wasn’t real, nope |
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so me being the goat shouldn’t mean more to me |
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than see it to a king though |
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from a bad ass kid to man with some dough |
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otherwise i may well have stayed poor |
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so while they stay focused on me beefin with flip, |
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shawty low, gucci or ludacris |
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or if i’m f-cking with a hoe |
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did i snitch when i got arrested or will i die over nonesense |
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internally i’m dealing with this conflict |
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so excuse me if i don’t get the chance to kiss the hand |
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or slap me in the face, ay i,m just the man |
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if they saying i ain’t the best at making hit records |
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it’s cause this my life these ain’t just rapping |
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sh-t, you think of that deep, did ya dawg |
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see you can’t see the castle through the walls till it falls |
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bitch ain’t thinking with the deep, did ya dog |
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cause see you can’t see the castle through the walls till it falls |
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everyone thinks that i have it all |
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but it’s so empty living behind these castle walls |
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these castle walls |
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if i should tumble if i should fall |
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would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls |
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there’s no-one here at all, behind these castle walls |
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nobody knows i’m all alone |
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living in this castle made of stone |
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they say that money is freedom but i feel trapped inside it all |
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and while i sit so high up on a throne |
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i wonder how i can feel this low |
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on top of the world it’s beautiful |
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but there’s no place to fall |
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for the record ay, i give a damn if i never said sh-t again |
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my career was meant for me to come and tell it |
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honest interpretation of how affected i’m faced with |
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matters most rappers used to keep locked away in the basement |
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the day that i walk i ain’t saying that i’m amazing |
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down playing the way i keep fellas from catching cases |
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won’t take into consideration |
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how much it mean what i’m saying |
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and when i say what i mean even |
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when i’m sorrounded by the fakers |
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from one of the greatest centers, |
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blessed with most of god’s graces |
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who made his way amongst the greatest |
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from the grimiest places |
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so next time you rating royalty, |
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i’m always being given to recordings than the level |
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of your loyalty, obvious you’ve been ignoring me |
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who else ya seen make it through the storm, |
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unharmed disjointed |
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while all the critics was looking for prince charming |
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disregarded the king of the south raised doubt |
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even though he made a castle out of used to be a house |
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he did sh-t that all your favourites rappers only rap about |
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but most of y’all don’t see the castle through the walls |
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and the smiles till it falls in piles so while… |
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everyone thinks that i have it all |
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but it’s so empty living behind these castle walls |
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these castle walls |
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if i should tumble if i should fall |
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would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls |
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there’s no-one here at all, behind these castle walls |
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