[00:02.16]Dear god how can I explain myself
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[00:08.16]Oh god bless me indeed
[00:09.72]When I'm so confused
[00:10.97]Enlarge my territory
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[00:13.02]Place your love and protection over me at all times
[00:15.14]Help me
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[00:16.22]Keep me away from evil
[00:17.26]Somebody answer me
[00:18.43]Allow me not to cause pain
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[00:20.26]Police in the background screaming put the thing down
[00:23.26]That's how hard I was trying to put my thing down
[00:25.50]Si-rens ringing out old ladies screaming out
[00:27.72]All this attention for me and I'm barely sixteen now
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[00:31.07]It's feeling like a dream now
[00:32.28]Handcuffed roughed up I'm tossed in the bing now
[00:34.45]I'm lying next to fiends now that's the end of the story
[00:37.43]Let me bring y'all niggaz back to the very first scene now
[00:40.33]December 4th a child is born
[00:42.03]Before I knew it had my pops trousers on
[00:44.60]That's how we do it when the man of the house is gone
[00:47.18]You either stand or fall I chose to stand
[00:49.63]The hawk outside so I blow my hand
[00:52.15]It's a cold cold world but I overstand
[00:54.62]Trying to stay focused but I feel hopeless damn
[00:57.27]Can't cope with being broke I'm a man come on
[00:59.98]Son don't let these streets get the best of you
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[01:04.31]I will be right by your side when you going through
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[01:09.33]Son just don't let it just don't let it
[01:11.94]Just don't let it just don't let it
[01:14.44]Just don't let it just don't let it
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[01:17.76]Get the best of you
[01:19.55]Late one night I was rolling the streets
[01:21.84]Just thinking about what's going on with me and
[01:24.56]Trapped in this thug life trying to break free but
[01:27.12]This thug life just keeps calling me
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[01:29.77]I'm living life way too dangerously
[01:32.38]I'm drowning in my misery
[01:34.01]
[01:34.61]Looked in the mirror there's my enemy
[01:36.46]
[01:36.98]Cause poppa never was a part of me
[01:38.98]
[01:39.55]Take one step at a time mama said
[01:42.02]Sweet memories still remain in my head
[01:44.49]All of my life been lied to misled
[01:46.75]Voices be like don't you wish you was dead
[01:49.43]No ground to place my feet
[01:51.94]I feel the fire under me
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[01:54.42]A way out is all I need
[01:56.20]
[01:56.91]Somebody answer me
[01:59.17]Son don't let these streets get the best of you
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[02:03.25]I will be right by your side when you going through
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[02:08.86]Son just don't let it
[02:10.19]Just don't let it
[02:11.37]Just don't let it
[02:12.66]Just don't let it
[02:13.84]Just don't let it
[02:15.14]Just don't let it
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[02:17.27]Get the best of you
[02:18.56]Now the only thing left is more spirit to roam free
[02:21.24]
[02:22.00]Cause ain't no going home for me
[02:23.66]It's a cold cold world but I blew my hand
[02:26.15]I drew first cause I knew that man
[02:28.27]I knew what he would do if I didn't draw first
[02:30.74]And I couldn't stand the thought
[02:32.01]Of my momma stepping foot inside a church
[02:33.79]All I try to do is try to get up out the dirt
[02:36.00]Guess he's trying to do the same told me get up out his turf
[02:38.49]I wanted to talk to him but that shit never work
[02:41.06]We was cut from the same cloth and what was under his shirt was his
[02:44.22]Mommas rent his young brother's clothes
[02:46.11]My nephew's food and with that I sqooze
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[02:49.44]And with that I froze
[02:50.46]Now my life is frozen in time behind these iron poles
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[02:53.93]And this story is told for young soldiers
[02:56.60]Who never choose the life we chose
[02:58.51]Son don't let these streets get the best of you
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[03:02.69]I will be right by your side when you going through
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[03:07.72]Son just don't let it
[03:09.77]Just don't let it
[03:10.70]Just don't let it
[03:11.99]Just don't let it
[03:13.21]Just don't let it
[03:14.48]Just don't let it
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[03:16.61]Get the best of you
[03:18.34]Tears in my eyes as I look up I'm trying to
[03:20.80]Hold back my pride but reality is screaming
[03:23.17]Gotta get a job cause momma also screaming
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[03:25.62]Streets are just like drugs and it's like I'm out here fiending
[03:28.43]Forget all the hits in the industry cause
[03:30.81]Ain't no exceptions in this game for me look
[03:33.40]Neither god or my enemies I
[03:35.91]Choose god cause he understands this
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[03:38.46]Young man with a thuggish heart
[03:40.68]Whole world in his hands but still torn apart
[03:43.07]Like I'm so close but it's still so far
[03:45.62]Nightmares of me in a swerving car ohh
[03:48.45]No ground to place my feet
[03:50.24]My feet
[03:50.78]I feel the fire under me
[03:52.61]Hey
[03:53.13]A way out is all I need
[03:55.08]I need
[03:55.60]Somebody answer me
[03:57.92]Son don't let these streets get the best of you
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[04:02.07]I will be right by your side when you going through
[04:06.27]When you going through
[04:07.64]Son just don't let it
[04:08.91]Just don't let it
[04:10.05]Just don't let it
[04:11.32]Just don't let it
[04:12.55]Just don't let it
[04:13.90]Just don't let it
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[04:15.88]Get the best of you
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