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I was just a little girl
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Skinny legs, a press and curl
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My mother always thought I'd be a star
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But way before the record deals
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Streets that nurtured Lauryn Hill
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made sure that I'd never go too far
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Every ghetto, every city
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and suburban place I been
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Make me recall my days, in New Jerusalem
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Story starts in Hootaville
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Grew up next to Ivy Hill
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When kids were stealing quartervilles for fun
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"Kill the Guy" in Carter Park
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Rode a Mongoose til it's dark
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Watching kids show off the stolen ones
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Every ghetto, every city
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and suburban place I been
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Make me recall my days, in the New Jerusalem
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You know it's hot
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Don't forget, what you got
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Lookin back.. lookin back, lookin back, lookin back
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You know it's hot
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Don't forget, what you got
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Lookin back.. lookin back, lookin back, lookin back
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Bag of Bontons, twenty cents and a nickel (well that's a quarter)
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Springfield Ave. had the best popsicles
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Saturday morning cartoons and Kung-Fu (wuh-TAH!)
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Main street roots tonic with the dreds
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A beef patty and some coco bread
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Move the patch from my Lee's to the tongue of my shoes
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'Member, FreLng-Huysen used to have the bomb leather
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Back when Doug Fresh and Slick Rick was together
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Looking at the crew, we thought we'd all live forever
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You know it's hot
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Don't forget, what you got
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Lookin back.. lookin back, lookin back, lookin back
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You know it's hot
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Don't forget, what you got
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Lookin back.. lookin back, lookin back, lookin back
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Drill teams on Munn street
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'Member when Hawthorne and Chancellor had beef
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Moving Records was on Central Ave.
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I was there at dancing school
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South Orange Ave. at Borlin pool
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Unaware of what we didn't have
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Writing my friends' names on my jeans with a marker
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July 4th races outside Parker
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Fireworks at Martin Stadium
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The Untouchable P.S.P.
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where all them crazy nig-gaz be
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And car thieves got away through Irvington
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Hillside brings beef with the cops
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Self Destruction record drops
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And everybody's name was Muslim (children playing, women producing)
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Sensations and eighty-eight
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attracted kids from out of state
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And everybody used to do the wop (wop it out, wop it out, wop it out)
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Jack ya jack ya jack ya body
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Nah, the BizMark used to amp up the party
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I wish those days, they didn't stop
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Every ghetto, every city
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and suburban place I been
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Make me recall my days, in New Jerusalem
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You know it's hot
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Don't forget, what you got
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Lookin back.. lookin back, lookin back, lookin back
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You know it's hot
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Don't forget, what you got
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Lookin back.. lookin back, lookin back, lookin back
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You know it's hot
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Don't forget, what you got
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Lookin back.. lookin back, lookin back, lookin back
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Lookin back.. lookin back, lookin back, lookin back
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Lookin back.. lookin back, lookin back, lookin back
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Lookin back.. lookin back, lookin back, lookin back
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Lookin back.. lookin back, lookin back, lookin back
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Lookin back.. lookin back, lookin back, lookin back
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Every Ghetto, Every City
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| Lauryn Hill |
