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Who's to blame for the state I'm in |
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I play my cards but somehow I can't win |
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(Verse 1:) |
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Listen when life leaves you beaten up |
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Don't lay around in it, hurry pick them pieces up |
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Cling closely to the people you love |
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They're your umbrella when the weathers tough |
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See to it that your head is up |
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If not just remember this |
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Just never let your chest and your chin touch in public |
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Those that stand against us would love this |
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Man **** them, something's bugging em' |
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They feel inadequate or something and that's been dug in em' |
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So deep they can't stand someone else making shit |
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Player hatred, same concept created Satan |
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Play em, no never mind let em play their part |
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They're here to make us prove we are what we say we are |
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We say we are the hard hearted |
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Been discarded from everything we've ever been part of |
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They just robbed it |
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Unguarded, tormented and tortured |
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And got nothing but scars and grey hairs to show for it |
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**** that, every stone that's ever been cast or blow that ever landed |
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Helped to build that man that's standing before your bitch ass |
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And back to wreak havoc and never retired, retreated or recanted |
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I, don't expect you to have stood where I'm standing |
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Why, repsect is the only thing I'm demanding |
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Try, you and I could build this understanding |
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You can't honestly shake unless you know where my hand's been brother |
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(Chorus:) |
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This is a piece of my puzzle now |
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Through the years I found peace in my struggle now |
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If we were put here to carry a great weight |
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The very things we hate are here to build those muscles |
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This is a piece of my puzzle now |
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Through the years I found peace in my struggle now |
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(Who'se to blame for the state I'm in - Yours truly |
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I play my cards but somehow I can't win) |
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(Verse 2:) |
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Listen I was taught that mistakes made with great intentions |
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Were never sins but where life lessons begin |
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Now that I'm 27, single father starting over yet again |
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I am who I have to forgive |
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Lost my mumma to cancer, closed a 10 year chapter shortly after |
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Can't deny that was some shit |
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Alone in this life would've been at my throat with a knife chop |
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Were it not for my passion to live |
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Follow my soul, not that I don't know the penalty |
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But that's the legacy that I pass to my kids |
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Heard of shining in the heat of the moment |
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And won my freedom the moment I realised that's what this... |
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(Chorus) |
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(Bridge: x2) |
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I can't believe my eyes Lord |
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I don't know what I'm seeing |
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I done watched them smash into little pieces everything I've been building |
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I can't believe my ears Lord |
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I don't know what I'm hearing |
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I heard they smash into little pieces everything I've been building |
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Who'se to blame for the state I'm in |
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I play my cards but somehow I can't win |
