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The things I couldn't I say, the things I couldn't write
The knowledge I didn't have in life made it hard to fight
The journey's endless is something that you must learn
Things that you don't wanna do in life is how you earn, a living
To survive for when the hard times arrive, listen
The world we live in is a prison
And to escape the realism is to free our minds
Stand aside and shine, and let life preservation speed through time
A choice, a thought, no love in this world, you know only business taught
Remember where ever you go you can't be gone too long
But then again most of your parents want you out the blue, gone
Broken dreams in a broken home, thoughts of life after d**h
You picked the stone, up and threw it at the man in the mirror
The next thing you know he goes ahead and pulls the trigger he's gone
[Hook]
You better get up from here and leave this place
What you might is peace and grace...
Just fade away, fade away, just fade away
Fade away, just fade away, fade away
Just fade away, fade away, just fade away...
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Unemployment rising, bills being missed
Repossessor coming in taking over developments
That black frame of mind ain't so hesitant
But were still in the ghetto paying that same old rent
And it's sad to say, sad to see, sad to feel the pain
Black folk, white folk, pain it's all the same
The government is who truly decides our fate
I just wish we all could leave reality and just escape
Fear, depression, and troubled minds
Trying to hide the pain thats inside from showing
Your drowning in the puddle of blood thats growing
Deeper and deeper almost getting caught by the reaper
You try to swim upward to grab the hand of a preacher, you make it
And wake up to a gun in your face, then your wasted
You gotta remember that life's a game man
Humps in the road are like puddles in the sand
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You ever lie awake, thinking about tomorrow
Hope that when you wake you won't drink to drown the sorrow
Or look in the mirror and ask yourself why
Life here on earth ain't worth living you'd rather die
Your the man in the mirror staring at yourself for hours
Thinking who you should be in this world besides a coward
A rich man, poor man, real civilized man
Or an angel above always watching over God's land
Constant d**h lurks around every corner
A man seen two years ago dies as a soldier
A kid named Trayvon was k**ed by a loner
Corrupt cops on this earth should be the d**h doner
I guess it is what it is, but is this who we are even like
Is this even real, is this even life
Thoughts so deep, in a mind a strong, from a man so bright
Learning right from wrong I call these visions from the soul y'all
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