Chorus: GZA and RZA
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I gotcha back, but you best to watch your front
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Cause it's the niggaz that front, they be pullin stunts
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I gotcha back, but you best to watch your front
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Cause it's the niggaz who front (they be pullin stunts)
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Lyrics:
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I was always taught my do's and don'ts
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For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't
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I'm from Brooklyn, a place where stars are born
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Streets are shot up, apartment buildings are torn
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and ripped up, stripped up, shacked up and backed up
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from fiends, cause the bosses on the scene, they got it cracked up
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Kids are slingin in my lobby
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Little Steve and Bobby
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Gettin paid but it's a life-threatening hobby
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Yeah, they still play hide and seek
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The fiends seek for the crack, and they hide and let the cops peep
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Grown folks say they should be out on their own
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Before the gangs come and blow up their mom's home
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Because they lifestyle is hectic, so fuckin hectic
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Blaow! Blaow! Blaow! Bullets are ejected
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My lifestyle was so far from well
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Coulda wrote a book with a title "Age 12 and Goin through Hell"
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Then I realized the plan
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I'm trapped in a deadly video game, with just one man
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So I don't only watch my back, I watch my front
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Cause it's the niggaz who front, they be pullin stunts
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Back on the Ave of Lavonia and Bristol with a pistol
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Stickin up Pamela and Crystal
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You know your town is dangerous when you see the strangest
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kid come home from doin the bid and nuthin changes
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What is the meaning of CRIME (what?)
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Is it Criminals Robbin Innocent Motherfuckers Everytime?
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Little shorties take walks to the schoolyard
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Tryin to solve the puzzles to why is life so hard
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Then as soon as they reached the playground, blaow!
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Shots ring off and now one of them lay down
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It's so hard to escape the gunfire
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I wish I could rule it out like an umpire
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But it's an everlasting game, and it never cease to exist
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Only the players change, so...
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Chorus 3X
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RZA - I gotcha back (8X)
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I gotcha back so you best to watch your front
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Cause it's the niggaz who front, that be pullin stunts
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I gotcha back but you best to watch your front
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It's the niggaz who front, that be pullin stunts
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Outro: (LP version only)
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*old man*
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Your, tech, nique, is, mag-ni-ficent
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When cut across the neck
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A sound like wailing winter winds is heard, they say
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I'd always hoped to cut someone like that someday
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To hear that sound
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But to have it happen to my own neck is... ridiculous
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*man gasps for air*
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I Gotcha' Back
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Genius/GZA |