Didn't take nothing, that I didn't need
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'Cause they didn't offer classes in what I wanted to be
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They didn't offer manhood, responsibility
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Had to learn it the hard way
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Earned my degree in the streets
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Graduated from Hard Knocks
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Got my education
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Hard Knocks
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Out on the street
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Can't bust through that ceiling without feelin' the burn
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And I ain't got nothing that I did not earn
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Chasin' that mighty dollar
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'Stead of hittin the books
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Studying Donny and Stevie
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Learned to sail the hooks
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I graduated from hard knocks
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Got the bumps and the bruises to prove it
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Hard knocks
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Summa cum laude
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Hard knocks
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Hard knocks
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Had a real good teacher named Mr. Life
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Didn't teach no chemistry but he taught me how to fight
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Didn't teach biology but I learned it from the birds and the bees
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Said stay close to your friends even closer to your enemies
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Hard knocks
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Graduated Hard knocks
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Bumps and bruises to prove it
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Hard Knocks
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Hard Knocks
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Got to bring it on home
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Said these streets keep calling me
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Don't know what it is
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Is it the thrill that I seek
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I don't know
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Is it the night
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Or the sound of the city
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Whatever it is
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These streets keep calling me
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Day in and night, can't get them off
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Hard Knocks
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Marc Broussard |