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Like the dead end kids, we used to play in the streets |
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Never worryin' about grief, football spelled relief |
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Ronnie was the coach for us |
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See he taught us to play, almost every single day, OK |
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Now on Evergreen was Larry and Mike and Lon |
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My cousin Boo lived there too just to name a few |
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With Sha-rone, he's bad to the bone, Boo's little sidekick |
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And a bad ass mouth, he used to feist it on Harmon Street |
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With Zach, Leo and Ed |
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Me Jody and Boop by June, Rocky and then comes |
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Tommy and Cedric, Lamont and Greg, unique in our own right |
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At times we'd fight, but that's a-ight |
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Still, not realizin' we had love, it showed |
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When we played, no phony charades against |
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One another, now while I write this song |
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It's like some are still alive and a couple are gone |
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We're born to live, a life to die |
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Life's so damn short and I wonder why |
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We're born to live, a life to die |
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Life's so damn short and I wonder why |
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We're born to live, a life to die |
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Life's so damn short and I wonder why |
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We're born to live, a life to die |
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Life's so damn short and I wonder why |
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As kids, you're overlookin' death |
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It didn't seem important or serious, it just seems curious |
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It was about, wakin' to a bowl of cereal |
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Cartoons on Saturday's, karate flicks, and like |
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Ridin' your skateboard, or bicycle |
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And went as deep as Killa Joe on the corner drinkin' Ripple |
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Plus, Puerto Rican kids on the block were cool |
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We got along, we all knew right from wrong |
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By far, we got a dose that life was hard |
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A Spanish we were close with, was killed by a car |
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Shocking, Alberto was hit, on the block and |
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Death was spontaneous, his moms was clockin' him 'cross the street |
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He just received an award |
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For Little League baseball like an hour before, plus |
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He didn't even get to see the summer set in |
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Dyin' all young at the age of seven |
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It opened up my eyes small that the flesh was weak |
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As a kid, thinkin' shit like that was mad deep, peep it |
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We're born to live, a life to die |
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Life's so damn short and I wonder why |
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We're born to live, a life to die |
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Life's so damn short and I wonder why |
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We're born to live, a life to die |
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Life's so damn short and I wonder why |
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We're born to live, a life to die |
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Life's so damn short and I wonder why |
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Now when somebody is gone, that's when you realize how close you was |
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How close you are, like a star |
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Real deep it takes time to heal |
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And still from time to time you wish you could find the way to forgive |
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And let him know you forgave |
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But they can't feel six feet deep inside the grave |
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What's left, but attend his wake, believin' if it was you |
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He'd do it for old time's sake, damn |
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I'm disturbed, by the news when I was told I was sittin' |
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Knowin' damn well Boo ain't bullshittin' |
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My life flashed like big bills of cash |
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And good times we had, now it's all so sad |
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One of my childhood pals hit the road |
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When you take, to the streets, then you die, by the code |
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But in this case, who knows what went down? |
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Bottom line is wishin' that he still was around |
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Now he found a spot in my heart, or should I say lobotomy |
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Mike, know you're trapped inside of me |
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And every other brother in Bush wick |
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Who rushed to your side thick, all down with the click |
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Yeah, God Bless he laid to rest |
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Call him Mike Boogie, that's what describes the nigga best |
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We're born to live, a life to die |
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Life's so damn short and I wonder why |
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We're born to live, a life to die |
| [03:52.08] |
Life's so damn short and I wonder why |
| [03:54.68] |
We're born to live, a life to die |
| [03:57.25] |
Life's so damn short and I wonder why |
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We're born to live, a life to die |
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Life's so damn short and I wonder why |
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We're born to live |
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We're born to live |
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We're born to live |
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We're born to live |
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Like that y'all |
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