[Ab-Soul]
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What's your life about? Enlighten me
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Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet?
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There's fire in the street, fire in the swisher
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Fire in between the two legs of your lil' sister
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Just get a sip of this elixir
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before they crop us out the picture
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I've never seen a crop circle
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but I've cops circle the block, I puff squares
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But I swear one day I'ma stop, my nerves itch
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On the brink of my career while my peers struggle for employment
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Can you hear these screams? (Uncle Sam ain't no killing me)
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One, two, three, four grams and a fifth of Hennessy
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A bad bitch, fuck the penitentiary
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[sung by female]
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Section 80's babies, blame Ronald Reagan
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We raising hell
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[Ab-Soul]
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Lord forbid
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The homie got wet, so we tryna soak it in
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The president is black, but you can't vote for skin
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You vote for the better man
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Come to our show, you can see the diversity
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Unify the people, they gon' peep it universally
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We might not change the world, but we gon' manipulate it
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I hope you participating
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Aiyyo Dot, won't you let these cats know?
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We knew we'd be here like back in '04
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Started HiiiPoWeR because our generation needed a generator
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and the system made to disintegrate us
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And all we do is assist 'em
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We're not victors, we're victims
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The bigger picture isn't developed yet
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Like, what if kids were celibate?
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Or what is Tammy came across a real man
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who didn't play games like chil-dren?
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My nigga cheated on his girlfriend
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with his girlfriend's girlfriend, let the world end
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And everybody tripping off twenty-twelve
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and the extraterrestrial presence as well
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(Odd Future's aight) but our future's not
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That martial law shit drop, we gon' all get got
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So keep that question mark on your face
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Eat your fast-food, use your fluoride toothpaste
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Hide your feelings from the public, work your lil' nine-to-five
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Don't forget to pay your tithes, and thank God you alive (HiiiPoWeR)
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And on another note
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we focussed like the Hubble Telescope, 'Soul
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[Kendrick Lamar (female)]
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Life is a traffic jam (life is a traffic jam)
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Life is a traffic jam
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Life is a traffic jam
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Life is a traffic jam
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Life is a traffic jam (ready to go)
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Life is a traffic jam (ready to go)
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Life is a traffic jam (ready to go)
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Life is a traffic jam
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Life is a traffic jam
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[Kendrick Lamar]
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I wrote this because I was ordered to
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People say I speak for generation Y
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Why lie? I do
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Section 80, your son will play me if radio won't
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Daughters that just turned one to twenty-one listen to Kendrick
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For instance
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[Ab-Soul]
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What's your life about? Enlighten me
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Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet?
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Take out that student loan and pay off your college degree
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and do exactly what you see on TV
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[Kendrick Lamar]
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True story
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Hmm, can you repeat that for me 'Soul?
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[Ab-Soul]
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What's your life about? Enlighten me
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Is you gon' live on your knees or die on your feet?
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Is you gon' plead the fifth or sound the horn?
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The time is now my child, come on
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[Kendrick Lamar]
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See a lot of y'all don't understand Kendrick Lamar
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because you wonder how I could talk about money, hoes, clothes, God and history
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all in the same sentence
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You know what all them things have in common?
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Only half of the truth if you tell it
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See I spent twenty-three years on this earth searching for answers
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till one day I realised I had to come up with my own
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I'm not on the outside looking in, I'm not on inside looking out
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I'm in the dead fucking centre looking around
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You ever seen a newborn baby kill a grown man?
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That's an analogy for the way the world make me react
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My innocence been dead
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So the next time I talk about money, hoes, clothes, God and history
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all in the same sentence
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just know I meant it, and you felt it
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cause you too are searching for answers
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I'm not the next pop star, I'm not the next socially aware rapper
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I am a human motherfucking being over dope ass instrumentation
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Kendrick Lamar
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Now fuck 'em up Terrace
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('Soul!)
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[Outro]
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I watch this fire that we're gathered around
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and see that it burns similar to the fire that burns inside you
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| Section 80, |
