Dear God.. how can I explain myself?
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[J] Oh God bless me indeed
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When I'm so confused
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[J] Enlarge my territory
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[J] Place your love and protection over me at all times
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Help me!
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[J] Keep me away from evil
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Somebody answer me! [echoes]
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[J] Allow me not to cause pain
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[Jay-Z]
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Police in the background, screamin put the thing down
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That's how hard I was trying to put my thing down
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Si-rens ringin out, old ladies screamin out
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All this attention for me and I'm barely sixteen now.. it's feelin like a dream now
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Handcuffed, roughed up, I'm tossed in the bing now
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I'm lyin next to fiends now, that's the end of the story
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Let me bring y'all niggaz back to the very first scene now
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December 4th, a child is born
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Before I knew it, had my pops trousers on
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That's how we do it when the man of the house is gone
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You either, stand or fall, I chose to stand
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The hawk outside, so I blow my hand
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It's a cold cold world but I overstand
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Tryin to stay focused but I feel hopeless damn
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Can't cope with bein broke, I'm a man - c'mon
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[Chorus: R. Kelly]
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Son don't let these streets, get the best of you
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I will be right by your side, when you goin through
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Son just don't let it (just don't let it)
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Just don't let it (just don't let it)
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Just don't let it (just don't let it).. get the best of you
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[R. Kelly]
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Late one night I was, rollin the streets
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Just, thinkin about what's goin on with me and
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trapped in this thug life, tryin to break free but
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this thug life just keeps callin me
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I'm livin life way too dangerously
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I'm drownin in my misery
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Looked in the mirror, there's my enemy
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Cause poppa never was a part of me
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Take one step at a time, mama said
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Sweet memories still remain in my head
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All of my life been lied to, misled
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Voices be like, "Don't you wish you was dead?"
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No ground to place my feet
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I feel the fire under me
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A way out is all I need
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Somebody, answer me!
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[Chorus + ad libs]
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[Jay-Z]
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Now the only thing left is more spirit to roam free.. cause ain't no goin home for me
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It's a cold cold world but I blew my hand
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A true first cause I knew that man
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I knew what he would do if I didn't draw first
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And I couldn't stand the thought of my momma steppin foot inside a church
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All I try to do is try to get up out the dirt
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Guess he's tryin to do the same, told me get up out his turf
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I wanted to talk to him, but that shit'd never work
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We was cut from the same cloth and what was under his shirt was his
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momma's rent, his young brother's clothes
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My nephew's food, and with that I suppose.. and with that I froze
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Now my life is frozen in time behind these iron folds
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And this story is told, for young soldiers
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who never choose the life we chose
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[Chorus + (ad libs)]
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[R. Kelly]
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Tears in my eyes as I look up, I'm tryin to
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hold back my pride but reality is screamin
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Gotta get a job cause mo-mma also screamin
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Streets are just like drugs, and it's like I'm out here fiendin
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Forget all the hits in the industry, cause
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ain't no exceptions in this game for me, look
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Neither God or my enemies, I
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choose God cause he understands, this
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young man with a thuggish heart
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Whole world in his hands but still torn apart
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Like I'm so close, but it's still so far
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Nightmares of me in a swervin car, ohhh
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No ground to place my feet (my feet)
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I feel the fire under me (heyyy)
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A way out is all I need (all I need)
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Somebody, answer me!
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[Chorus + ad libs]
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The Streets
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| R Kelly |
