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Yeah my Lord yeah |
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We sell crack to our own out the back of our homes |
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We smell the musk at the dusk in the crack of the dawn |
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We go through Epidodes II like Attack of the Clones |
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Work 'til we break our back and you hear the crack of the bone |
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To get by just to get by |
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Just to get by just to get by |
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We commute to computers |
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Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors |
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We survivalists turned to consumers |
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To get by just to get by |
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Just to get by just to get by |
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Ask Him why some people got to live in a trailer cuss like a sailor |
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I paint a picture with the pen like Norman Mailer |
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Me and Willa raised three daughters all by herself with no help |
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I think about a struggle and I find the strength in myself |
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These words melt in my mouth |
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They hot like the jail cell in the South |
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Before my n***a Core bailed me out |
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To get by just to get by |
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Just to get by just to get by |
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We do or die like Bed Stuy through the red sky |
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With the window of the red eye |
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Let the lead fly some G Rap s**t Livin' to Let Die |
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Background singers |
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This morning I woke up |
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Feeling brand new and I jumped up |
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Feeling my highs and my lows |
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In my soul and my goals |
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Just to stop smokin and stop drinkin |
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And I've been thinkin I've got my reasons |
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Just to get |
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By |
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Just to get |
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By |
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Just to get |
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By |
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Just to get |
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By |
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Ba ba ba ba da bada ba da bada ba da bada ba da badahh |
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Just to get |
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By |
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Just to get |
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By |
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Just to get |
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By by by by by by |
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Ba ba ba ba da bada ba da bada ba da bada ba da badahh |
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Just to get |
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By |
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Just to get |
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By |
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Just to get |
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By by by by by by |
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We keeping it gangster say fo shizzle fo sheezy and stayin crunk |
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Its easy to pull a breezy smoke trees and we stay drunk |
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Yo I activism attackin the system the blacks and latins in prison |
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Numbers of prison they victim black in the vision |
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S**t and all they got is rappin to listen to |
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I let them know we missin you the love is unconditional |
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Even when the condition is critical when the livin is miserable |
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Your position is pivotal I ain't bulls**ttin you |
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Now why would I lie Just to get by |
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Just to get by we get fly |
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The TV got us reachin for stars |
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Not the ones between Venus and Mars the ones that be readin for parts |
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Some people get breast enhancements and penis enlargers |
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Saturday sinners Sunday morning at the feet of the Father |
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They need somethin to rely on we get high on all types of d**g |
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When all you really need is love |
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To get by just to get by |
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Just to get by just to get by |
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Our parents sing like John Lennon Imagine all the people watch |
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We rock like Paul McCartney from now until the last Beatle drop |
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This morning I woke up |
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Feeling brand new and I jumped up |
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Feeling my high's and my low's |
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In my soul and my goals |
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Just to stop smoking and stop drinking |
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And I've been thinking I've got my reasons |
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Just to get |
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By |
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Just to get |
| [02:52.05] |
By |
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Just to get |
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By |
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Just to get |
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By |
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Yoyoyo yo |
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Some people cry and some people try |
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Just to get by for a piece of the pie |
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You love to eat and get high |
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We decieve when we lie and we keepin it fly |
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Yoyoyo yo |
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When the people decide to keep a disguise |
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Can't see they eyes see the evil inside |
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But there's people you find |
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Strong or feeble in mind I stay readin the signs |
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Talib Kweli Get By |
