[Intro: Lauryn Hill]
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If you down with the rich man, and that can be rich in anything,
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Don't you take too much,
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If you laugh at a poor man, and that can be poor in anything,
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Don't you laugh too much,
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If you tryin' to be rich man, and that can be rich in anything
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Don't you take too much,
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And if you need to be needed, and you're lookin' for purpose,
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Just remember, don't you need too much...
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[Hook: Shadia Mansour]
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If you take something you, don't need, and keep it
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Then you've stolen from somebody else who's hungry
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Everything that you do, is everything you are
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Everything that I am, is everything you'll ever need.
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[Verse 1: Lowkey]
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Money can buy power, but it can't buy respect
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Money can't buy sleep, but it can buy a bed
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Money can't buy you love, but it can buy sex
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Do you posses money or by money are you possessed?
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Money can buy a house, but it can't buy a home
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So even with money you still feel all alone
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Money can buy you friends, but it can't buy family
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Money can't make you happy, that's just a fallacy
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It can buy a bath, but it can't buy purity
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It can buy bodyguards, but it can't buy security
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While people around the world starve, I eat
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Cause money can buy war, but it can't buy peace
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Some do everything and anything to get the p's
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The society we livin' in, it's a necessity
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It's got the power to turn your best friends to enemies
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It's funny cause money doesn't follow us when we leave.
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[Hook: Shadia Mansour]
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If you take something you, don't need, and keep it
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Then you've stolen from somebody else who's hungry
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Everything that you do, is everything you are
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Everything that I am, is everything you'll ever need.
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[Verse 2: Lowkey]
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Does happiness live in a mansion with a swimming pool?
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I know people with plenty of money that are miserable
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We all need to earn in this world we live
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Most work for it, some steal, but many worship it
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Some sell poison for it, some seek employment for it
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We need it to survive, so some clean the toilets for it
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I need papes to live but never will I live for papes
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Abolish the Queen, I don't wanna see that witch's face
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Many sell their soul for it, no not me
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Some will try to tell you that it doesn't grow on trees
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I heard the sayin' said, many a time, but they were wrong
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Cause if it doesn't tell me where do you get the paper from?
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Most think they will be happy if they only had more of it
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Some wasted, some feel more important because they're born with it
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Some have got the nerve to say you're fraudulent for forging it
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The truth is you don't need a fortune to be fortunate.
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[Hook: Shadia Mansour]
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If you take something you, don't need, and keep it
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Then you've stolen from somebody else who's hungry
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Everything that you do, is everything you are
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Everything that I am, is everything you'll ever need.
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Too Much
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Lowkey |