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A man pays dues, do this become an angel |
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Good and evil, a man stays true |
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There are other ways to win |
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Good and Evil, it's the same thing |
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[Canibus] |
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A decade after my debut, the game changed; I got the same views |
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To me it's just baseball and I'm Babe Ruth |
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Bambataa from Planet Rock, trade op commander Hip Hop |
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What? We grimlock smash Spitbox |
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You can never be the best, until you complete the competency test |
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With Rap pattern parameters I set |
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Are you deaf? Do you need me to repeat what I said? |
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I said you'll never be the best unless you pass this test |
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Okay, fill out registration form 88, |
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Name, social, date of birth, address, city and state |
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When the form is complete pass it on to Angela Clark |
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To determine your eligibility and get you insured |
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Every morning the board panel assembly judges man by his bars |
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Courage of heart and what he offers the cause |
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If he's accepted he'll be sworn in tomorrow |
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If he's rejected he's recycled and retested on stage at the Apollo |
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I had to and so do you, are you solid or hollow? |
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Depression is normal, a challenge to climb out of your sorrow |
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Forget about the world around you, the truth is |
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They are nothing without you but you will be nothing without the truth |
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[Chorus: Canibus] |
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A man stays true, a man pays dues |
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If a man can do this, the man become an angel |
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There are other ways to win, a consequence for every sin |
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But we are blind because Good and Evil is the same thing |
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[Canibus] |
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Do not be confused by the choice of words used |
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For every battle we win, there's something we lose |
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But you still have to choose and choosing not to choose is still a choice |
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Sometimes silence is a powerful voice |
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The body is of no use if the mind is enslaved |
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But theses slaves can not bind your light or your sound waves |
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However, we must to train to increase our strength |
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The final test is presented when we least expect |
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We look forward, we see 180 degrees, what's left? |
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We eyeball right to left but see nothing, what's next? |
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180 degrees of regret, what's that? |
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It's everything we left behind unchecked, it wants revenge |
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They want revenge against us because we fight for our freedoms |
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Die for what we believe in and they know we don't need 'em |
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I know you disagree, you think it's fortune cookie shit |
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But I guarantee you this, our future was prefixed |
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[Chorus: Canibus] |
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A man stays true, a man pays dues |
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If a man can do this, the man become an angel |
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There are other ways to win, a consequence for every sin |
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But we are blind because Good and Evil is the same thing |
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A man stays true, a man pays dues |
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If a man can do this, the man become an angel |
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There are other ways to win, a consequence for every sin |
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But we are blind because Good and Evil is the same thing |
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[Canibus] |
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I look towards the sky for the answers to why |
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I analyze the great divide and saw God on both sides |
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God didn't do this, we did this to each other |
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So keep his name out your mouth, you fucking cock suckers |
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How could you own all of it, when we are all apart of this? |
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The Earth belongs to every living thing that walks upon it |
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We are all perfect creations, with imperfect justifications |
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But just the patient fuck the subject of Satan |
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The Universe is too huge, does Satan live out their too? |
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Or is he just after me and you? |
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Believe what you perceive |
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Look at the Sun, tell what do you see? 360 degrees of light beams |
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Illuminating Hip Hop, Spitboss'll bag your pops |
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You ain't ready for the shit that I got |
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It's called Hip Hop homey, that's the only way that you know me |
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And knowing people can still be lonely |
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At the Maharaji spa for the whole week |
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I just go to sleep because when I wake up I am not an emcee |
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I get back on the clock when I hear the next beat |
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I'll write about another century of heat, I'm a beast |
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[Chorus: Canibus] |
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A man stays true, a man pays dues |
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If a man can do this, the man become an angel |
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There are other ways to win, a consequence for every sin |
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But we are blind because Good and Evil is the same thing |
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A man stays true, a man pays dues |
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If a man can do this, the man become an angel |
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There are other ways to win, a consequence for every sin |
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But we are blind because Good and Evil is the same thing |