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Now you've been gone in these streets for like, three weeks now |
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I'm startin to worry myself, so come on back now |
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Don't want you dealing with a life like me |
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Don't want you strung out, don't want to be like me |
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Only fourteen and you've been with one child now |
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Pregnant with no shoes is where you'll end up now |
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You're fourteen, you've got your whole life ahead of you |
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What's that twenty year old man got to do with you |
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I wish-I made a better life for you |
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I wish-there was someone you could look up to |
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I wish-you did what I say not what I do |
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I wish-you'd see the future but I know you |
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I know-that you want to be in these streets |
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I know-you think you gotta hustle to eat |
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I know-money doesn't matter to me |
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I just want you home |
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I know-that you've got to do what you do |
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I know-what's that life really doin fo you |
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I know-that's no way to live your life |
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I need you to survive |
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Little shorty and you want to be a baller now |
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Want to ride on twenty-fours like a big timer now |
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The respect of your crew that's around you |
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On your way to getting kicked out your high school |
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Thinking drugs will get you where you need to be |
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You might get there but only temporarily |
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Before you get there you might be under about 6 feet |
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Or behind bars at least five fifty deep |
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I wish-your daddy was here to help raise you |
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I wish-you could see that that life ain't gon' save you |
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I wish-you could meet God and He could change you |
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I wish-get in your head and rearrange |
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I wish-there was someone you could look up to |
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I wish-you could see there's another way to get through |
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I wish-use your mind and that can't stop you |
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I wish-see the future but I know you |
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God has got to hear me |
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(hear me when I pray) |
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It's heavy on my shoulders |
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(make it go away) |
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Carrying my babies |
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Praying for my brothers |
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Carrying for my sisters, my fathers, my mothers |
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Hoping that one day soon you'll see |
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All you're meant to be |
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Come to know the things that are true |
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And live the life that's meant for you |
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