[00:13.44]I want you to close your eyes
[00:16.74]And vision the most beautiful place in the world
[00:19.68]If you in the hood on the ghetto street corner
[00:22.85]Come on this journey
[00:26.65]The best journey
[00:30.30]Acres of land and swimming pools and all that
[00:33.63]Check it out
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[00:34.59]I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings
[00:37.61]To fly like does over the streets watchin' many things
[00:40.42]Kids walkin' home from school on drug block
[00:42.80]Missionaries pass out papers that read: Love God
[00:45.87]I see faces, cases, judges, juries, masons, lawyers and cops
[00:48.97]I watch because every thugs face is my mirror
[00:50.88]But this was one in particular
[00:52.58]This kid he was the vintage stick em up pro
[00:54.54]16 years old, did his jail sentence, nowhere to go
[00:57.59]Every mornin calls his comrad to come and get him to smoke
[01:00.38]He insane, already gone mad
[01:01.98]Blames himself for his setbacks
[01:03.63]Dangerous street corners where his sets at
[01:05.77]Slang from dust to dawn, detectives act like they maniacs
[01:08.77]Chasin' him, his ass was flarin'
[01:10.52]Smokin' like a chimney, on really, of course he not carin'
[01:13.31]He need a place to go to keep his mind expandin'
[01:16.16]I give him a helpin' hand, bring him out to Thugz Mansion
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[01:18.51]Every corner, every city
[01:20.74]There's a place where life's a little busy
[01:23.39]Little Hennessy, laid back and cool
[01:26.01]Every hour, cause it's all good
[01:28.72]Leave all the stress from the world outside
[01:31.60]Every wrong done will be alright
[01:34.27]Nothin but peace, love
[01:37.27]And street passion, every ghetto needs a thug mansion
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[01:40.54]Dear momma don't cry, your baby boy's doin good
[01:42.83]Tell the homies I'm in heaven and they ain't got hoods
[01:45.51]Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook
[01:48.77]Drippin peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke
[01:51.56]Then some lady named Billie Holiday
[01:53.76]Sang sittin there kickin it with Malcolm, 'til the day came
[01:57.04]Little LaTasha sho' grown
[01:58.70]Tell the lady in the liquor store that she's forgiven, so come home
[02:01.20]Maybe in time you'll understand only God can save us
[02:05.41]When Miles Davis cuttin lose with the band
[02:07.57]Just think of all the people that you knew in the past
[02:09.99]that passed on, they in heaven, found peace at last
[02:13.17]Picture a place that they exist, together
[02:15.90]There has to be a place better than this, in heaven
[02:18.53]So right before I sleep, dear God, what I'm askin
[02:21.43]Remember this face, save me a place, in thug's mansion
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[02:24.10]Every corner, every city
[02:26.31]There's a place where life's a little busy
[02:28.80]Little Hennessy, laid back and cool
[02:31.62]Every hour, cause it's all good
[02:34.08]Leave all the stress from the world outside
[02:36.88]Every wrong done will be alright
[02:40.12]Nothin but peace, love
[02:42.65]And street passion, every ghetto needs a thug mansion
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[02:45.81]A place where death doesn't reside, just thugs who collide
[02:48.63]Not to start beef but spark trees, no cops rollin by
[02:51.30]No policemen, no homicide, no chalk on the streets
[02:54.32]No reason, for nobody's momma to cry
[02:56.53]See I'm a good guy, I'm tryin to stick around for my daughter
[02:59.10]But if I should die, I know all of my albums support her
[03:01.76]This whole year's been crazy, asked the Holy Spirit to save me
[03:04.72]Only difference from me and Ossie Davis, gray hair maybe
[03:07.54]Cause I feel like my eyes saw too much sufferin
[03:10.01]I'm just twenty-some-odd years, I done lost my mother
[03:13.08]And I cried tears of joy, I know she smiles on her boy
[03:15.52]I dream of you more, my love goes to Afeni Shakur
[03:18.13]Cause like Ann Jones, she raised a ghetto king in a war
[03:20.89]And just for that alone she shouldn't feel no pain no more
[03:23.62]Cause one day we'll all be together, sippin heavnly champagne
[03:27.35]What angels saw, with golden wings in thug's mansion
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[03:29.45]Every corner, every city
[03:31.86]There's a place where life's a little busy
[03:34.42]Little Hennessy, laid back and cool
[03:36.99]Every hour, cause it's all good
[03:39.84]Leave all the stress from the world outside
[03:42.44]Every wrong done will be alright
[03:45.79]Nothin but peace, love
[03:48.12]And street passion, every ghetto needs a thug mansion