[Intro:]
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Take me as I am
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Or you can have nothing
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Nothing at all
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[Verse 1:]
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Never understood why
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Discrimination existed
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Amongst us people when
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All of us wanted to be
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Taken equal not for the
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Color of our skin or the
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Fact that we fit in criteria
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Should be based of whats in
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The heart mind and soul and where
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We want to go cause if we caught
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In the past how we gonna reach our goals
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People be so concerned about the cons
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Instead of the pros that the preconceived
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Notations be blocking out of my flows
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They be acting like they know so they real
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Quick to throw it out to term about a kid
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Or the numbers in his bank account I'd
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Appreciate it if you listen then open ya
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Mouth feel alot better if you knew what
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You was talking 'bout just a youngin
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Grindin feeling inside that he hasn't
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Got his point across after he moved his
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Tums ? tellin people he's a normal kid
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Following dreams aposed to
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[Chorus:]
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So why don't you take me
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As I am or you can have nothing at all
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So take me as I am or have nothing at all
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[Verse 2:]
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Just looking around at all the people
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That's around no of em was with me though
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Months ago but tellin me now the way
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I should go or the things that I should put
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Out when its expression to me you can't tell
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Me how the ways the ropes or being the
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D- I- double g - Y the little nigga that's known to be fly
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But alot of the time he just gotta swallow
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His pride despite of all the people that's
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Making him feel deprived of a fair shot just
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Because of where he came from labeling
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What I am when you ain't even hear a taste of ?
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I done heard it all so ya 2 cents won't hurt none
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And I know that I'ma keep going with it
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And I know the ridicule I'm rolling with it as long
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As I'm taking for who I am and where I'm going
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That's whats important to my time
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[Chorus:]
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So why don't you take me
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As I am or you can have nothing at all
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So take me as I am or have nothing at all
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As I Am
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| Diggy Simmons |
