[Intro:]
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I'm only 23 but I feel like I'm older, d'beta [?] I'm a hunchback from carryin the world on my shoulders
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If the world [?] all hold us in the land of tony blair it's hard to BBC my dreams n stay focused
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And I've always been a loner in the form of a trio the three amigos who? me, myself and I aint no [?]
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N' ain't nutin changed but ma size, and the fact I'm on the rise, it's two thousand and five
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[Verse 1:]
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I'm everybody's friend now, I'm everybody's cousin cuz I'm the up n' comer comin up I see him comin
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To eat with the up n' comer
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Sleep with the up n' do songs with and try steal heat from the up n' comer
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The only person I trust is my mother from day dot through all the ups n' coming down she supported me
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She said that I'ma keep it, pregnant in secret, ignoring all the encouragements to have aborted me
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Family cursing me forgettin it coulda been worse remember I chose the beats over the streets
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Kept on tellin me to go to university it's all reversed now, now that I'm tipped to do well commercially
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As for friends? we've moved on and grown up I used to rap with a crew called one,
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We broke up now being solo only shows you who your true friends are when you invite them to shows but they don't show up
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[Chorus:]
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I don't wanna hear the cries no more
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Find your dream I'm chasing mine
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Give it all you got n strive for more
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Life's too short to waste my time n I look up at the sky and all I see; is I can only rely on me becuz at the end of the day I'm still on my own
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[Verse 2:]
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You mighta seen me standin on the streets tryna sell my CD's at five pound a pop it was me, X-I-LEM P
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Back to the studio to make another beat, no whip this was all done by fee then we called up michael merridith to get a good mix
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He put it on a DAP, I put it on a DISC n we give it to the DJ's to throw to put it out and a little bit of DAT a little bit of DIS
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[Verse 3:]
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Life's a bitch, in a relationship with time, sleepin wiv me on the side!
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Lay front of life is death n I'm a young dog tryna stay alive I look at life DOGGY STYLE!
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There ain't no stoppin me now no lookin back to when I was trapped between religions it wasn't simple
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Because I feared bending over backwards to get into heaven only to end up in limbo
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N this is what I'm sayin now...
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[Chorus: x2]
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I don't wanna hear the cries no more
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Find your dream I'm chasing mine
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Give it all you got n strive for more
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Life's too short to waste my time n I look up at the sky and all I see is;
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I can only rely on me becuz at the end of the day I'm still on my own
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N this is what I'm sayin now... [but last line not repeated the 2nd time]
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[Song fades with vocal sounds]
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Don't need nobody... gonna do it on my own.
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Still On My Own
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| Sway |
