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[Verse 1 - Blueprint] |
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Ten girls stapped on a collage campus |
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Twenty school-kids gunned down in Sandy Hook |
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A black teenager is murdered over skin color |
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It feel like the chaos is everywhere you look |
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Thirty afghans killed at a family wedding |
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Sixty Iraki killed trying to vote |
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A woman gets gang-raped down in India |
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Five kids' lifes get ended by a drone |
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I don't care if you living in a high-rise |
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You're no different from a man in a hut |
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Every single life is sacred in God's eyes |
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You ain't worth more cause you got more stuff |
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I don't care what the color of your skin is |
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I don't care 'bout your fortune and fame |
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I just want for us to have more perspective |
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And understand that everybody's pain is the same |
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Perspective |
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Bird's eye view |
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It's beautiful up here |
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[Verse 2 - Blueprint] |
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Understand that the empathy for all others |
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Appreciation as a have or a have-not |
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Recognize that people's worth is decided |
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By the content of character, and not what they got |
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I get upset cause it seem so hard for us |
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When we lie to ourselves we sound so crazy |
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We tell ourselves that they don't work as hard as us |
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They could be like us if they just weren't lazy |
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I think it's just an excuse |
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That allow us to treat them as less human |
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Cause once we begin to take it as the truth |
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It justifies all the evil things that we do to them |
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Some people work hard and barely stray by |
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Others work hard and end up rich |
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It doesn't mean you shouldn't celebrate success |
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But understand the systematic hurdles that exist |
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Perspective |
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Bird's eye view |
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It's beautiful up here, might shed a tear |
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[Verse 3 - Blueprint] |
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A man with no shoes stands on a corner |
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Sad about his circumstance of being on the street |
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Then realize it weren't that bad |
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When he was joined by another man that had no feet |
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A woman makes a post on facebook |
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About how she and her brother got beef |
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Unaware it was read by a friend of hers |
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Who's own brother passed away just last week |
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Boston get's hit by a dirty bomb |
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Hundred people injured, three people died |
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Rare for us but for many that's the norm |
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The daily threat of an attack is part of their lives |
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I ain't sayin' what we feel ain't real |
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But understand just what it means to be privileged |
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That's when you ignore the circumstances of those |
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Less fortunate then you, that you don't have to live in |
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Perspective |
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Bird's eye view |
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It's beautiful up here, might shed a tear |
