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People called me the scandaliser
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The world was my appetiser
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I turned gangs into fertiliser
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King of the New York streets
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I broke hearts like window panes
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For breakfast I'd eat nails and chain.
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To my kingdom I'd proclaim
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King of the New York streets
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I floored my accelerator
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All the way to the equator
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Just a local gladiator
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King of the New York streets
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Well. I was only 16 years old
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So what could I have known?
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in my mind these passing years
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The legend sure has grown
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People come from miles around
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To see. my royal tenement sound
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Always up and never down
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King of the New York streets
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Schools gave me nothing needed
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To my throne I proceeded
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Every warning went unheeded
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King of the New York streets
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I stood tall from all this feeling
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thumped my heed on heavens ceiling
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Shooting dice and double-dealing
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King of the New York streets
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Each time I jumped behind the wheel
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Of ?pin-striped custom Oldsmobile
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The guys would bow and the girls would squeal
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King of the New York streets
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Local bullies I deflated
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Back street jive that I translated
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Top Ten girls were all that I dated
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King of the New York streets
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I didn't need no bodyguard
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I just ruled from my backyard
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livin' fast. livin' hard
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King of the New York streets
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Well I was. wise In my own eyes.
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I awoke one day and I realised
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You know this attitude comes front cocaine lies
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KING Of THE NEW YORK STREETS
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Dion Dimucci |