[Kardinal Offishall]
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Sweet Marie
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CHORUS [Nicole Sinclair]
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So sweet so sweet so sweet
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Oh sweet Marie, Marie, Marie
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So sweet so sweet so sweet
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Oh come on, sweet Marie
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So sweet so sweet so sweet
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Yeah
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So sweet so sweet so sweet
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[Kardinal Offishall]
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Sweetest Marie, it is to thee that I dedicate
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Me, myself and I for all of eterni-tie
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Without you I wouldn't have made it this far, this far
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Tell me how to live right and how to live wrong too
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But it only made me stronger
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Wisest of wise enough, strongest of the strong
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Now who love what I see
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In life, before me, stands a headstrong woman
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Overworked and underpaid, stress ridden
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First class middle class person
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Type rehearsing of your values
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Made an easy path for me to be who I be (let's see)
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One half of my creation, 100% Jamaican
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50% T-dot, 50% not anything mentioned before
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But pure unadulterated love
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Even though sometimes I can't get down with your actions
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I'm passing that, for the positive things that I see in you
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Dedicated to the one sweet Marie
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CHORUS
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[Kardinal Offishall]
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Giving birth to a black man in this land
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Is similar to angels being placed in the palm of the devil's hand
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Corruption all around and surrounded by greed and lust
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And trust (trust), that you will appear when the sun
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But I am not one, all praises due to my mother
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I love my father too, but sweet Marie there ain't no other
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That show me more than you, how to stay out of the devil's reaches
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Pushing me to profit, rocking funky in peaches
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Society's leeches, teachers do yourself
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And all your sister's need, in pursuit of higher wealth
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Sweet Marie regardless of the treatment of your family
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Despite of what you don't have, you'll always have me
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'Cause me and you we're tight, you respect my life's path
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When I'm in a position, in those who deserve it feel the wrath
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Of disrespecting you, we have the highest principles of blood
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It runs thicker than water, but hurts
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That's when eye's blood, sweet Marie
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CHORUS
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[Kardinal Offishall]
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Staying at a friend's house, 'cause Hydro is not paid
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Suffering in the dead of winter left dreaming of a grave
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Or atleast someone to save, is the feelings I remember
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Cold play in the Shakespeare on the Holy in December
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Never lived in the ghetto but suffer the circumstance
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Circumstantial evidence reveals the nature of my residence
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My presence and present, is the love and strength of blackness
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Fibers of a genocide and presence during Mantis(?)
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Because of my Mom, I've experienced parts of life
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My nigga could not relate to, but whose to shay that it's for better
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Couldn't afford to buy me leather, but my body stayed warm
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Couldn't afford to buy me diamonds, but I still had charm
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She could afford to give me knowledge, and teach to speak truth
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She taught me black lies were white reali-tie
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Forever and a day gee, I will bleed for my family
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F-O-S brothers and the one sweet Marie
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CHORUS
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Sweet Marie (featuring Nicole Sinclair)
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| Kardinal Offishall |
