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And I promise if I take you home, I'll sing you a song
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Never leave me alone
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Said c'mon baby throw me a bone, I'll sing you a song
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Never leave me alone, and I promise if you take me home, I'll sing you a song
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Never leave me alone
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Said c'mon baby throw me a bone, I'll sing you a song, never leave you alone
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I'm a tell you something about me
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That's my favourite subject, I don't know whether you picked up on that yet or not
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[Verse 1:]
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I never said I had a business mind
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I just don't believe that quitting time exists, ain't no finish line to this
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You got to give me mine, I really shine, my given time is this
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Live and die by the grind driven by the fist
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Where do you place my name if I never played your game
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We don't race the same, I don't run inside no painted lane
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Plus ya'll pace is strange, ya'll either stop or you sprint
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Run if it's sunny and hide if it change to rain
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I would be half the Ali that I am
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If I slowed myself up and tried competing with these people fam
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I'm every bit as unconcerned as they are unprepared
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Market flooded needles to say I wasn't scared
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Let's all drop they same day, I don't fuckin care
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Put listening stations in the store and let the public hear
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Better yet, let's have an instore performance
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Make it oranges to oranges, me dwarfing your indurance
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After that we'll shoot the shit with our supporters
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And see how many more discs of yours the Indy stores order
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Shit you already knew I out rap em'
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On the low we out work, out think, and out class em'
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Nobody's doing this thing exactly like we do
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They do it, they just ain't doing it like us, you know what I'm sayin'
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Sucker ass mother fuckers
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[Verse 2:]
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My personal pedigree's so bonafide
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Cause a man of my stature ain't born overnight
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The undisputed king of where poor folks reside
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Because everytime I speak it be hope vocalised
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And you sit and bitch with your chickens about it isn't fair
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The sound system ain't shit but I was crystal clear
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We first name basis, sound men - we give em' beer
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Plus I tipped em' 50 last semester when the click was here
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Listen here, I ain't gonna give you all my secrets
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Just these few examples help me illustrate my pretense
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Our strength is unrelated to your weakness
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Cause you'll never be a worthy pool of peers to be competed with
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I see my shit with Son House and Syl Johnson
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And always loose, I done lost face too but I'm sporting their shoes
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So let me remind you, them little kicks you trying to fit, we out grew
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Them shits in high school man
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I don't think I'm arrogant man, I think I just
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You know, I do's what the fuck I does man if that's just...
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Kiss my ass for all I care
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[Verse 3:]
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It's of foremost importance there is none like unto the brother
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Out this mother fucker regardless
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So stop all the nonsense, you seem me lounging - call the Rhymesayers office
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I've officially lost it
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They say my reputation precedes me
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I don't know the meaning of off season, I ain't taking it easy
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Ain't taking a day off, never had an off night
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Never been laid off, I live on the job site
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It all pays off though when I squint in the spotlight
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And see your lips are moving to the true shit that I write
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And we gon' be alright every night of my life
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It's my night cause I view the future like it's hindsight
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I ain't waiting, I'm patiently persevering
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I see greatness in the person in the mirror very clearly
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And that's why I take this seriously
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Baby come near to me and truly, truly hear me
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Take Me Home
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Brother Ali |