*featuring Bono (U2)
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[Wyclef]
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We're gonna take ya back now, come on
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I like the way this is going down
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Ladies and gents
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Yo I'mma do this for the kids check it out
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Here we go, yo
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[Wyclef]
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We don't need no education (yeah)
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Says a young man sitting in class (yeah)
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School is out 3 o'clock on the dot (yeah)
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Beef with some thugs, he got shot (yeah)
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Turn on your television (yeah)
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Martin Luther King just had a dream (yeah)
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Take this dream and apply it to your life (yeah)
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Shorty's selling crack, is a talking job
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[Wyclef]
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To all my refugees, enough respect
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To all my juveniles, enough respect
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To all my war children, enough respect
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Now Bono won't you sing the hook, come on
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[Bono (Wyclef)]
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Keep your head up
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(Uh keep your head up)
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Cause a new day's gonna come
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(Every country got a ghetto, come on)
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And look towards the sun
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Some got the darkness all around
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(Everybody sing this part right here)
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[1 -Wyclef]
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Mama, mama
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You know you raised me with no father figure
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I wanna take this time to thank you
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Even though I'm doing Life
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Alright
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Mama, mama
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You know you raised me with no father figure
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And taken by machine gun trigger
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Out for giving me life
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[Wyclef]
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Yo, yo turn the page ready the news today
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People getting fired, some getting wild
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Looting on the streets cause the dogs gotta eat
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(Grrr!) By any means necessary
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Turning over the hour glass
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Gotta get it straight before it's too late
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Cause I don't wanna be behind that gate
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Now everybody sing the hook
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[Bono (Wyclef)]
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Keep your head up
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(Your head up, your head up)
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Cause a new day's gonna come
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(For the new millennium)
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And look towards the sun
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Some got the darkness all around
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(Everybody sing this part right here)
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[Repeat 1]
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[Wyclef]
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My people in the front, everybody in the buck
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Hey yo raise the roof up in the air, come on
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And just raise the roof for all my people trying to eat
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Stomp your feet on the floor come on and just stomp
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Stomp, stomp, stomp
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Introducing Bono, straight out of Dublin
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[Bono (Wyclef)]
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Midnight she's on the street, she can't sleep
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She's afraid to dream
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Ten years old, my Spanish rose
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You see things you never should have seen
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Midnight she's on the street, oh she can't sleep
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She's afraid to dream
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Ten years old, my Spanish rose
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You see things you never should have seen
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(Let me do the guitar solo right here)
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(I want all you kids to stand right now, come on let me hear y'all)
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[Bono & Children's Choir (Wyclef)]
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Keep your head up
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Cause a new day's gonna come
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(Ha, ha)
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And look towards the sun
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Some got the darkness all around
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(All my broke people sing this part right here)
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[Repeat 1]
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[Wyclef]
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Hey, hey, hey, hey
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Wyclef and Bono
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Jerry Wonder in the back
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I let the DJ cut the wax
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Y'all need to stop it with the violence
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True Refugee combination
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Dublin, Brooklyn, New Jersey, ya hear
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Trying to find a new year
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New Day (Pop Radio Edit)
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Wyclef Jean |