[Heavy D - Intro]
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Here's to you...
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You have gone through struggles, suffering..
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This one goes out to everybody in the world, but especially on the street level
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Because I know where you comin from and some of the things you do, I can understand
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So through all your travels, I'm wishing you a peaceful journey
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What is a friend for? Through rich and through poor
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Kinda like a marriage balanced on a different floor
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A friend could tell you things that he wouldn't tell another
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So in essence, a friend could be considered a brother
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You laugh and you play a lot, you talk and you say a lot
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But when it's time to feel the pain, you cry and you pray a lot
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I'm talkin about you, you who have the time
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A time to be my friend when no one else would be mine
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Problems were nothing because I had my man to share them with
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Hills were nothing neither, 'cause I had my man to climb 'em with
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I'm really proud to say that I truly really knew you good
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And oh, God's blessing from the entire neighborhood
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And as the days drift, drift into the future
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I laugh a little louder at the times that I was witcha
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This one's for you and I truly hope you hear me
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And through all your travels, I'm wishing you a peaceful journey
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[Chorus 2X: K-Ci & Jojo (Heavy D)]
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You'rrrrrrrre on my miiiiiiiiiiiind (You're on my mind)
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And I wish you a peaceful journey (Peace!)
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Brother I hope you hear me
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[Heavy D]
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In the corner, sits the little girl in tears
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The shadow of a man overwhelms her fears
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"Mommy, mommy, NO!", the words of a battered child
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The wicked, wicked mommy has the sticks swingin buckwild
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"Mister, mister, do you have a dime?
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See, I'm hungry and I'd rather be a begger than do crime"
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Sure - here's your dime, go make a big ten bucks
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Now sneak around the corner, get your joints and go beat him up
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A kid on the streets, doesn't want to be beat
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So he hangs on the block 'til his pop fall asleep
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Missing kids on the milk carton
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A lunatic kills kids for kicks and gets pardoned
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Baby girls run away from home, huh
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and two months later, they're stars on child porn
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Tracks on the arms of a minor
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Suzie ran too, but she'll be dead when they find her
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Kids on the street movin drugs, the thugs' growin up fast
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Wouldn't stop when one gets plunged
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Junior stole a Benz with his friends
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But got caught, now he's doin time with twenties and tens
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For the rest of his life, he learns to lean on the wall
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And prays for the day when his number is called
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This one if for you and I truly hope you heard me
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Through all your travels, I'm wishing you a peaceful journey
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[Chorus 2X]
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[Instrumental for about 19 seconds]
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[Heavy D]
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Pardon me, mister warden, I'm askin for a pass
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to come for some of my brothers who made mistakes in the pass
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It's really not their fault, you see - times are HARD
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and it was probably difficult for my man to find a job
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Before he was forced, forced to make a living
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by lying, stealing, and eventually killing
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No one was born bad, we're all God's Kids
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So who's to really blame for the wrong that he did?
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And speakin about the law, what are they for?
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To beat us with a stick face down on the floor?
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You preach and you preach that you want crime to stop
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If you want crime to stop, stop hiring crooked cops
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So hear me brother man, hear my plea!
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If you want success all you gotta do is suc-ceed
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Love, life, pain, death
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What else is left on the travels of life's steps?
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In life, we lose, get bumped and bruised
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The road you choose not necessarily a cruise
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You giggle for joy, shed a tear for pain
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There's a lot to lose, and a lot to gain
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Though when you walk on the streets, try to walk on street smarts
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When you see your man down, try to have a little heart
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This one if for you and I truly hope you heard me
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Through all your travels, I'm wishing you a peaceful journey
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[Chorus 4X w/ ad-libs and variations]
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[Heavy D]
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Yeah, you're on my mind...
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Peace...
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Hear me now brother
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[K-Ci]
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Stop your killing, stop your killing
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Stop your stealing, stop your stealing
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Stop your killing, stop your killing
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Stop your killiiiii-ehhhhh- |