Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down
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and open doors to hurtin people like me
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People like me (4x)
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Is it fair to say that I am stressing out
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I'm stationed in Iraq and they won't let me out
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My homeys said I was stupid for even joining
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My counsoller said that my decision was disappointing
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How she had good for good state colleges
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and with my good grades it wouldn't have been a problem
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but they don't understand the power of significance
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more than brilliance and certainly more than dividends
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and if you ask me now would i repeat it
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Would i fight in a war i don't believe in
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Well the answer is if not me where the cancer is
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they been doing this before Jesus of Nazereth
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and after all this time it is still deadly hazardous
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and bush isn't really being all that inaccurate
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When he says we're winning the war cos its staggering
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but thats cos we're killing everybody that we see
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and most of us soldiers we can barely fall asleep
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and time and time again i'm feeling incompetent
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cos my women back home, we're constantly arguing
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and i must be crazy cos all i'm obsessing with is
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her myspace and facebook and who's commenting
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I swear to god if she's cheatin' I'm doin her ass in
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I can tell with one look and it came to me sounding like something from a song hook, saying
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Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down
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and open doors to hurtin people like me
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People like me (4x)
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Meet Sarah, the proud mother of young sabastian
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suburban professional went to college in ...shton
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In self pity she suddenly cried,
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would my life be important if I suddenly died?
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Neighbours saying what a nice women she was
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keeping mostly to herself ever since the divorce
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and with the compant downsizein and the fall and all
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she really shouldn't take it that personal at all
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It wasn't her boss who had his eyes on her thighs
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and got a rise from her risin off the desk though
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and despite rememberin sayin no plenty of times
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it was still a damn surprise being let go
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and now stuck with a mortgage she cant afford
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and too educated to blame the corporate world
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She got on welfare and hated it case work a power trippin
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and generally being degraded if,
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nothing else she was treated sick
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and ineffective which is the worst thing
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that she'd been left with
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Damn, no magic from david blane,
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no painter to pain this pain,
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No morgan freeman to narrate the shame
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So she took refuge and prayer
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kinda like findin god in the phonebook
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and it came to her sounding something like a song hook, saying
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Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down
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and open doors to hurtin people like me
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People like me (4x)
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I guess I told you about myself to a degree
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just by telling you about people like me
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but people like me they speak politely
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they don't start no beef or piece of white meat
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Everybody gotta eat but everybody doesn't
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which is why i want to tell you about my favourite cousin
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he and I grew up where the sun shines
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and we both partook with the gun crimes
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and we both liked american rap rhymes
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even though we didn't understand one line
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if you remember my line of notes in my last album
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I talked about a close call with a grenade
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I think we both must have been about 7th grade
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but dont panic we both survived without damage
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but we developed a bond like we survived the titanic
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but when the country became frantic
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my mother tried to get us out, planned it
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to the last detail except the plan got derailed
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cos there wasn't enough money for the plane tickets
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how bitter when my mother had to chose who to take with her
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so my cousin got left in the war and thats just hard to recall
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but now i take refuge and prayer,
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kinda like finding god in the phonebook
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it came to me sounding kinda like something from a song hook, saying
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Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down
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and open doors to hurtin people like me
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People like me (4x)
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Heaven, is there a chance that you could come down
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and open doors to hurtin people like me
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People like me (4x)
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People Like Me
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| K`Naan |
