[Hook: Dice Raw]
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Homicide or suicide
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Heads or tails
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Some think life is a living hell
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Some live life just living well
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I live life tryna tip the scale
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My way, my way
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My way, my way
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[Verse 1: Black Thought]
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Yo, I'm always early
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I never take off cause I got a job
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Rob Peter to pay Paul
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Now I realize it's the winner that takes all
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Do what I gotta do because I can't take loss
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Picture me living life as if I'm some animal
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That consumes its own dreams like I'm a cannibal
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I won't accept failure unless it's mechanical
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But still the alcohol mixed with the botanical
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I guess I be referred to the owners manual full of loaners
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Full of all the homeless throwaways and the stoners
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Soldiers of the streets with 8th grade diplomas
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And the world awaiting their shoulders as a bonus
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Look, let he without sin live without sin
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Until then, I'll be doing dirty jobs like swamp men
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Counting the faces of those that might have been
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It's like living that life but I won't live that life again
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[Hook: Dice Raw]
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Homicide or suicide
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Heads or tails
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Some think life is a living hell
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Some live life just living well
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I live life tryna tip the scale
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My way, my way
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My way, my way
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[Verse 2: Dice Raw]
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Lot of niggas go to prison
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How many come out Malcolm X?
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I know I'm not
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Shit, can't even talk about the rest
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Famous last words: "You under arrest"
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Will I get popped tonight? It's anybody's guess
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I guess a nigga need to stay cunning
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I guess when the cops comin' need to start runnin'
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I won't make the same mistakes from my last run in
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You either done doing crime now or you done in
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I got a brother on the run and one in
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Wrote me a letter, he said when you comin'
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Shit man, I thought the goal's to stay out
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Back against the wall, then shoot your way out
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Gettin' money's a style that never plays out
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'Til you end up boxin' your stash, money's paid out
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The scales of justice ain't equally weighed out
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Only two ways out, digging tunnels or digging graves out
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[Hook: Dice Raw]
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Homicide or suicide
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Heads or tails
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Some think life is a living hell
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Some live life just living well
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I live life tryna tip the scale
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My way, my way
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My way, my way
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Tip The Scale
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The Roots |