| Yeah, uh, look
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| The older I get, the more I realize
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| Almost everything that I believed
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| In my life was a lie
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| It started as a child, first was Santa Claus
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| Then I believed that a brawl would never come between my dawgs (wrong)
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| My sister Mary filled me in when I was 7
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| Told me Hulk Hogan only existed on television (what?)
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| The Stone Cold Stunner and the Leg Drop?
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| All scripted, N.W.O and X-Pac? |
| Dang
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| I used to walk up to them automatic doors
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| My momma told me that my finger was the power source
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| So I pointed with my pointer, then pow
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| It was open, then come to find out she was joking
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| Had to let it soak in, my mind as a boy
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| Didn’t wanna believe that McGwire or Barry were on the 'roids
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| But uh, when I was young, I thought the world was alright
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| It’s funny, I even thought that Jesus was white, but yo
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| All that glitters ain’t made of gold
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| It’s the thing you’ve heard a million times before
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| It took a lot of time, now I realise
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| Now I know better
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| It’s better late than never
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| Now I know
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| Over the years you get more accustomed to pain
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| Used to believe my dad when he said he’d come to my games
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| Even believed my mother was a saint and could do no wrong
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| And then she sat me down and told me how I was born (shoot)
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| Mind-blown, but now it all makes sense
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| Why she didn’t spazz on me when she caught me having sex, uh
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| I was perplexed but now I get it
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| I used to think America was finished with racism
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| How could I miss it?
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| I’m mad so many people don’t get it
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| Holding this list of black names but now I’m blacklisted?
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| Got older, it’s like it got no different
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| I found out these independent artists isn’t independent
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| Cause major labels fund them quietly to keep perception
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| That’s deception in the game
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| Used to believe I wanted fame
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| Plus my name written in them lights
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| Now I know it’s so much greater cause it’s written in the hand of Christ
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| And I used to say the radio would play what the people wanted
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| Now I know they playing what’s payin'
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| Feeling jaded, but somehow I still believe in God
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| I even thought a college education got me a job, man
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| All that glitters ain’t made of gold
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| It’s the things you heard a million times before
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| It took a lot of time, now I realise
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| Now I know better
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| It’s better late than never
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| Now I know better
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| Yes I know better
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| Now I know better
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| Yes I know better
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| Now I know better
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| Yes I know better
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| Now I know better
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| Yes I know better
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| Now I know
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| Too many times before |