[Hook:]
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In the darkest of days
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Men become kings and still die of old age
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While the children become gods
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At last the whole world begins to play
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[Verse 1: Pearl Dragon]
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My body is adorned with thorns
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King with a crown of thorns
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I wash my feet and kiss the ground I'm on
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I wash my feet kiss the ground I'm on, I'm on
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Jump niggas cause they thought I was a pawn
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But knowin' I'm a king I'm about to get on
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This the sirens for the quiet of the storm
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Ring that alarm, R-r-ring that alarm
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Yo her body was adorn adorned,
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And I adored her, so much that I had to ignore her
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Her body I explored it, like an explor-her
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Her first name was Dora, her first name was Dora
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I opened up the door and saw
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My queen getting raw, getting raw
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So like me beatin Resevoir Dog
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Had to hit it raw, no not raw dog
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I was a, hog, but I don't eat the pork
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She was a swine, crippling' my time
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On the cast of my pearl, yo she wasn't my girl
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This wasn't reality, this wasn't my world
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Like Jimi or Kurt before
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King with a crown I shall be adored
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Even if I have, always been ignored
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I was not the norm I will not be ignored
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[Hook]
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[Verse 2: Thomas Gray]
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Young world this the story of the kings
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A nigga couldn't decide should I rap or should I sing
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And since God blessed me with my wings
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I'm like a lil' nappy-head Bill Russell with the rings, feel me?
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Lately globetrottin' through a lotta traps
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Friends become rats, I'm talkin Judas in expensive slacks
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Fuck em, to tell the truth now I'm over that
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Sucker 'I'll be suckers, it don't matter that you roll with pack
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I steady grab my nuts and you can roll with that
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Pardon my back, and the weight on my shoulders black
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History's on my side, these niggas hard in they cars
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But in the streets they can't look me in the eye
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(Look me in the eye, look me in the eye)
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(Champagne Champagne)
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[Verse 3: Macklemore]
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(Can I get em?)
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Stand like a man, move like a legend
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Talk but with action, that's how you'll be remembered
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The greats learned that humility is a weapon
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Sever ties with the part of you too big to learn a lesson
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Sit in silence, to fight the mind and try to find the present
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Cause we only get a couple chances to be epic
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And I'm connected, like God plugged my headphones
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Directly into heaven and told me to go and get em with this
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Mic cord, I am, nothing you can tell me
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They bark when they talk but they walk like the legless
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The purpose of my art, is for people to respect me
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I'm not a king I'm a servant to the desires that tempt me
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Only way to escape the cage in a valley of roots
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Be a mirror to the people when they're searchin for truth
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Only way to escape the cage in a valley of roots
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Claim the mirror, my people, keep searchin for you
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[Hook]
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Kings
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Macklemore |