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[Hook: Tyler Diggs and Tatum Miranda] |
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If a miracle could save us from |
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The travesty that we've become |
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If a million sons would stand as one |
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We will overcome, overcome |
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If a miracle could save us from |
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The travesty that we've become |
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If a million sons would stand as one |
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We will overcome, overcome |
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[Verse 1: Inspectah Deck] |
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The whole world trippin', listen it's still a cold world |
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The other day I had to bury my homegirl |
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Wrong place, caught one in her face |
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Plus her man's on the run and couldn't come to the wake |
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For Heaven's sake, you pray God open the gate |
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In this modern day Sodom, that's their only escape |
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10 year olds are cold, no, they don't hesitate |
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2 up a G pack, he chose the whole 8 |
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Catch a 5 to 10 sellin' 5's and 10's |
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And the police informer was your childhood friend |
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In the real world, gotta hustle for your dream |
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Extend your clips, fit the muzzle with the beam |
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For the love of cream, it's nothin' but routine |
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Swing on the judge, take a couple for the team |
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He's the young Capone, he grew up in a drug home |
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Stranded on the Ave with a blunt and his gun shown |
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[Hook: Tyler Diggs and Tatum Miranda] |
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If a miracle could save us from |
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The travesty that we've become |
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If a million sons would stand as one |
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We will overcome, overcome |
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[Verse 2: Masta Killa] |
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A live scene theme from a Godfather saga |
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A Martin Scorsese classic and I'm the author |
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Drama at the opera, crime story novel |
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Tuxedo suit and silencer on the nozzle |
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Meeting place scheduled at the Broadway musical |
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Bravo, we arrive in bulletproof limo |
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Shotgun, the underboss of our main source |
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Of interest, the black widow cocaine empress |
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A princess rich from her family's inheritance |
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Now let's talk business, begin by addressin' the bricks |
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That was missin' in the last shipment |
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At first, everything nice, everything routine |
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Jocks lining up the food, we blessed him with the cream |
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But on this day he wasn't ready and my God sense keen |
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I noticed that his normal firm handshake shook |
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It wasn't steady when he squeezed |
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[Hook: Tyler Diggs and Tatum Miranda] |
| [02:34.48] |
If a miracle could save us from |
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The travesty that we've become |
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If a million sons would stand as one |
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We will overcome, overcome |
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[Verse 3: Raekwon] |
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He went from prince to a king out of a life of rubbish |
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Wearin' tailor-made suits, Sky Dwellers and clusters |
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To perfection, rags to riches, the evil's done influenced |
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That pushed him off the edge, they said the greed made him do it |
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You're my right hand, damn, he fucked the trust up |
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It's ruined, niggas caught him slidin' on his belly |
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I'm grippin' on my hammer with the silencer twisted |
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Contemplatin' murder now, I'm 'bout to swerve on my biscuit |
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But it's my man at the same time, I don't wanna do him |
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He violated, broke a major code, bar what you stealin' now |
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It's over, in the falls of Niagara, he was soakin' |
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With a shell case stuck in his head, they found him floatin' |
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[Hook: Tyler Diggs and Tatum Miranda] |
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If a miracle could save us from |
| [03:33.45] |
The travesty that we've become |
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If a million sons would stand as one |
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We will overcome, overcome |
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[Verse 4: Ghostface Killah] |
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Allah let me lay in your arms |
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Hold me like a newborn |
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Sing to me the most sweetest song |
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The exalted, the most benevolent |
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The knower of all |
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Keep me safe 'till I return back to your residence |
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This Earth, my place of birth |
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As time went through the ages it got worse |
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Sicknesses, beheadings in Syria |
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Ebola's killin' my people, it's gettin' scarier |
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Most foods ain't even real, the chip is here |
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Deadly fluids bein' released, contracted through air |
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Dear God, it been a minute since I cried out |
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Since mama died, I never wild out |
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We need help like the phone's 'bout to die out |
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Can you hear me? Can you hear me now? |
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We need a miracle |
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Destroy the FDA for holdin' back cures |
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So they can get paid |
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[Hook: Tyler Diggs and Tatum Miranda] |
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If a miracle could save us from |
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The travesty that we've become |
| [04:49.87] |
The travesty that we've become |
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If a million sons would stand as one |
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We will overcome, overcome |
