[Nelly Talking]
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Free City
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This is a shout out to every young brother ya know
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Thats doin his thing right now
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Keep ya head up...
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He's walkin the yard wishin he had wings
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Ya know so he could fly up out that joint
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Man
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[Intro]
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If I could, fly away
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Ooo and I wouldn't come back no more
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I, I'd turn around,
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Just to see you for the last time,
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See, now I know
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Hey, that it won't be easy
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I done fought in a battle, and I done made it this far
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I gotta few more feet, but its still the longest yard
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[Verse 1]
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Man, it's the longest yard I ever had to get in my life
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And see my life ain't right, if my wife don't write
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My niggas cant eat if the fish don't bite
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My raise the gross sales, like Mike and Ike
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Now big brother almighty
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I keep a gamma ray, i'ma G-5 G
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Take a G-5 jeep, G-5 deep
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Too some of their bare feet
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And that jeep don't speak
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Listen mayne they lock it down round herre
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See body bag and gag and your found round herre
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This as serious as it sound round herre
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The guards guard the ground, 4 pounds round herre
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And they ain't playin, they're just lettin you know
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That anything they want to happen, nigga happen real slow
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Get the word from upstairs, put you in that hole
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I cant take it, I'm just ready to go
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[Chorus]
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If I could, fly away
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Ooo and I wouldn't come back no more
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I, I'd turn around,
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Just to see you for the last time,
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See, now I know
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Hey, that it won't be easy
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I done fought in a battle, and I done made it this far
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I gotta few more feet, but its still the longest yard
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Yeah yeah, its still the longest yard
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Uh uh, its still the longest yard
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Um um, its still the longest yard
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I done fought in a battle and I done made it this far
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[Verse 2]
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I'm in my cell 20 hours a day
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And doin push-ups ever hour a day
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Cause im tryin to keep the cowards away
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Thats why im markin off the calendar days
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Tryin to get it out of the way
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And im just tryin to keep a piece of mine
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And im gon shame a motherfucker with a piece of mine
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Cause he tryin to take a piece of mine
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So im gon slice his ass a piece at a time
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But now that they close the door
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Lock me in and cell 30 deep but its built for 10
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Tell me what kind of world they got you in
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With the barbed wire fences, box u in
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From now, til they turn off the lights
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I'ma read anything in sight
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Its kinda hard tryin to read at night
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But I'ma change my life
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And hope another brother take this flight
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[Chorus]
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[Verse 3]
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(Oohh no) I gotta make it out this place some how
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(Oohh no) Man I really believe that I done turned it around
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(Oohh no) You see, all I need is that second chance to show,
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since I crossed the ration, my obligation of rehabilitation
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(Oohh no) They can punch me high, and they can kick me low
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(Oohh no) Spit on me, it's gonna take more than that for them to break my soul
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(Oohh no) Man its hard for people to understand what its like to be,
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gated, incarcerated, I just cant take it, but I'ma make it man to see better days
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[Chorus]
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[Hook]
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If I could fly away,
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If I could I turn around,
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If I could fly away
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Fly Away
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Nelly |