[Hook:]
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I just want to get these dreams out,
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So hopefully I'll stop having these nightmares
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And if you wanna know what I dream bout'
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It's that one day you might care
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[Verse 1:]
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15 years old
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Sitting in my bedroom
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Watching my baby sister
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And praying Mom's will be home soon
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Burning my arms
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The pressure hit me like typhoons
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Cause' I'm the only black kid in my homeroom
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I felt the power of words that day
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When I was called coon
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Sharp as any sword
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When they cut, it scar you
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You know the pain when people seem to ignore you
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I grab the teacher like "I just want to be heard!"
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I went home, and put it all inside a notebook
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Poetry is molding me
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Look, this how hope look
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My father is in Michigan
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My step-dad addicted and
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My mom's out at working all her fingers to the bone
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And I feel like I'm worthless and hurting beneath the surface
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It's clear that I am broken Lord,
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I need you in my home
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And that day
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A dream was born
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That in 16 bars
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You can hear my pain in this song.
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[Hook]
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[Verse 2:]
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I see some doctors and lawyers
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With a person to cure cancer
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And they don't even know it
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It's a voice in they dreams, it drowned out
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By the loudmouths
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Dreamkillers screaming for God to quiet down
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So if they say that you are nothin'
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Tell em' thank you
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Cause' God created this whole universe, that is proof
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Meaning, we're expressions of the greatest artist
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Brushstrokes of The King's speech, greatest masterpiece
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So why you let em' take your purpose? (Huh?)
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(It's the dream that he gave you)
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Why you believin' that you worthless? (Huh?)
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(There's a reason why he made you)
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Fly higher, inspire,
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You were wired to be The Lord's greatness
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Naysayers are liars
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And this what He designed me to do
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I'm living my dream
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You better live yours too.
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[Hook]
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[Bridge:]
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Now, all my dreamers say...
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(OoooooooOOoooo)
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Don't let em' ever take your dream away
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(Ooooohhhh)
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Now, all my dreamers say...
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(OoooooooOOoooo)
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Don't let em' ever take your dream away
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(Ooooohhhh)
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They can never take your dream away
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Sweet Dreams
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Derek Minor |