This K'naan
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This goes out to anybody that's ever had to leave their home
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I came out of a killer, neighborhood called River
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Where life expectancy is shorter than a caterpillar
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I was once a guerrilla, Mogadishu was my cage
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My trainer was the gauge, AK was my baby sitter
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While we be out and looting, the whole city was shooting
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I know it's fucked up but somehow, that sound became soothing
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Niggas heard African rappers and thought about them foofoo
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You superman, tell the real soldier boy come to shoot you
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Sexual intercourse what you in nigga
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Fuck what you heard, yeah nigga
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Come walk in the dark no fear nigga
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It's a dry in my eyes no tear nigga
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Working malaria, your hood can't really compare here
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Got keys, they really love barrier
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Come near here, I'm daring you
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I'll shoot you not being afraid
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Life gave me a rock and a lemonade
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Blew up my school in the 8th grade while playing catch with a hand grenade
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Yeap, that's a true story, this ain't Hollywood glory
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I ain't the prince of Zamunda, dog, my life is too gory
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I'm tired of always going through barriers
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I just wanna live a good life
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So I'm coming, coming to America,
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I hope we gonna have a good time
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Baby thanks for letting me marry ya
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A green card sure looks fine
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So I'm coming, coming to America,
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I hope we gonna have a good time
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Now my second home city, what can I say
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It took my fucking heart from me
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I played the judge part pardon if I'm larceny
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Oh yeah, that mean it never got no bars for me
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T-dot O to the motherfuckering dot B
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And the Rexdale project [?]
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Fuck puck but it ain't no hockey
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When the cops came, they knocked me, they got me
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I had to flee, they said to bargain, I had to plea
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So I crossed the border while they put a warrant out for me
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I'm tired of always going through barriers
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I just wanna live a good life
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So I'm coming, coming to America,
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I hope we gonna have a good time
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Baby thanks for letting me marry ya
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A green card sure looks fine
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So I'm coming, coming to America,
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I hope we gonna have a good time
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I know, everywhere in the world, got his problems
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Everybody got a dream, of the green, to dollars
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But some of us are dying in the streets can you figure out
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Even in America the hoods need a ticket out
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I know, everywhere in the world, got his problems
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Everybody got the dream, of the green, to dollars
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But some of us are dying in the streets can you figure out
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Even in America the hoods need a ticket out
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I'm tired of always going through barriers
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I just wanna live a good life
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So I'm coming, coming to America,
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I hope we gonna have a good time
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Baby thanks for letting me marry ya
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A green card sure looks fine
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So I'm coming, coming to America,
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I hope we gonna have a good time.
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I hope we gonna have a good time.
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I hope we gonna have a good time.
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Coming To America
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| K'naan |
