[Chorus: KRS] + (guest)
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It's all a struggle (tryin to make it day to day)
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It's all a struggle (from my hood to around your way)
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It's all a struggle (single parents all by theyself)
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It's all a struggle (diseases decreasin your health)
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It's all a struggle (fiends swearin that's they last puff)
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It's all a struggle (hustler tryin to avoid handcuffs)
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(No matter what you do, who you are or where you from)
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(Rich poor black white, at the end of the day)
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[Verse One: KRS-One]
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It's all a struggle - and most people's struggles are doubled
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You ain't the only one with a challenge facin some trouble
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Look at the woman chewed up by the dog with no muzzle
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Or the workers that got trapped underground in that tunnel
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Some kids are playin in pools, others in puddles
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When they listen to the news the propoganda is subtle
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But it's time for you to know that the cryin got to go
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Release the guilt that you built and let it flow
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Slow and low, that is the tempo
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Move slow and on the low, this you gotta know
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You don't get the muscles without the hard struggles
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You ain't the only one out here tryin to get dough
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From the hustler to the preacher to the government leaders
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From the airline pilot to the chef to the teachers
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We linked in the same huddle, in the same tussle'n'bustle
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Cause at the end of the day, it's all a struggle
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[Chorus]
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[Verse Two: KRS-One]
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It's all a struggle - but don't let the challenges bug you
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Or the government drug you, or the thieves in the street
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beat and mug you - build your tunnel under the rubble
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Come up on the other side eye to eye with the trouble
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Look at the Twin Towers crumble
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Look at the religious leadership stumble, everybody struggles
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But not everybody comes through nifty, it's fifty/fifty
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The city itself will outrun you quickly
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Whether you be healthy or sickly
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Whether you be wealthy or thrifty, ugly or pretty
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Everybody's tryin to get 50's and 100's
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I taught this at UCLA just off Sunset
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Now run get "Ruminations"
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It's a book that I published for the healing of this nation
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In just a few chapters we run through, some possible solutions
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Cause at the end of the day
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[Chorus]
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[KRS-One]
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It's all a struggle
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It's All a Struggle
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KRS-One |