| I’m listenin'
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| Caught up in a web of deception
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| From this shit I done learned new lesson
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| So what cha do, you keep on playing, you play on, playa
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| From love to confusion
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| You keep getting but you keep losin'
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| So whatcha find comforting, your boozin', bosom
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| Heart brusin', I’m the one
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| From the high note to the low pains
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| You see destruction but no aftermath
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| Only voices you hear in your head
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| They all laugh, ha-ha, ha-ha, ha, yeah
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| From your denials to your delusions
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| Everything you gain you keep loson'
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| What you not know, this is an illusion
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| So what the hell you’re doin'
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| He’s looking and looking
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| He’s looking and looking
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| He’s looking and looking
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| He’s looking at you, he’s looking at me
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| He’s looking and looking
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| He’s looking and looking
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| He’s looking at you, he’s looking at me
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| He’s looking at us, he’s looking at we
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| Ah shit, he’s lookin' at me
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| You wake up, baby boy, but you’re not sleep
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| You test full but you’re not it
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| You’re running fast but you’re not on your feet
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| And your speed is dead
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| You run along but you not know
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| You climb inside but you can’t grow
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| Faster and faster until you fall to them floor
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| You screamed on but don’t sing along
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| You work and work with no pay
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| You punch a clock but never end your day
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| You take vacation but your not playing
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| What we say by this time, here my friends, drink three
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| You cry, cry, revolution, but what you want is a solution
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| But you’re more content with being a pollution
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| Jump in the motion, and ask the notion
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| He’s looking and looking
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| He’s looking and looking
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| He’s looking at you, he’s looking at me
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| He’s looking at us, he’s looking at we
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| He’s looking and looking
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| He’s looking and looking
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| He’s looking at you, he’s looking at me
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| He’s looking at us, he’s looking at we
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| Ah, looking
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| Self love, self preservation
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| Self love, self preservation
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| Self love, self preservation
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| Take a look at it
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| Self love, self preservation
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| Self love, self preservation
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| Self love, self preservation
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| He’s looking at
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| Self love, self preservation
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| Self love, self preservation
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| Self love, self preservation
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| He’s looking at, he’s looking, looking and looking
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| Self love, self preservation
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| Self love, self preservation
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| Self love
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| L O V E, L O V E, love
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| L O V E, love, L O V E, love
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| Ya’ll say, yeah
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| You know, L O V E, L O V E, love
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| L O V E, love, L O V E, love
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| Ya’ll say, yeah
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| L O V E, L O V E, L O V E
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| Ya’ll say, oh
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| L O V E, L O V E, L O V E
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| L O V E, L O V E, L O V E
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| Ya’ll say, yeah
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| Self love, self preservation
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| Self love, self preservation
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| Self love, self preservation
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| He’s looking at, he’s looking at
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| Self love, self preservation
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| Self love, self preservation
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| If you don’t like your job
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| Maybe, you should quit stop being a bitch and love yourself
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| If you believe things can work out easily
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| I’m telling you if you don’t like what your mama’s telling you
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| Then be a grown man and stand up on your own two and love yourself
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| And if your girlfriend’s on welfare
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| Then baby, walk away, you don’t have to care and love yourself
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| And if standing on the corner and pushing them rocks up in your socks
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| Ain’t what you want to do tonight then, love yourself
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| L O V E, L O V E, yo
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| L O V E, L O V E, yo
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| He’s looking at L O V E
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| He’s looking at L O V E
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| He’s looking at L O V E
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| Love yourself
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| What I’m tryin' to tell you here is
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| Life it passes you by
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| And if you don’t get up off your ass
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| I’m telling you, it’s gonna fly, the time’s gonna fly
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| And you’d find yourself about fifty years old
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| Sittin' on a porch with your grand kids
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| But you know what, man, you ain’t got shit to tell
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| You still live in that same-old bullshit-ass reality
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| That was passed on down to you by your family
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| From generation to generation to generation to generation
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| And you ain’t got shit, man, you sure fucked up
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| All right, it’s real simple
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| I mean, this is for anybody, any age, man
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| Get up off your ass, forget the past
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| And remember that the future is the only thing that you fuckin' got
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| So run with that shit
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| Shit, it’s that simple, ain’t it? |
| Yeah
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| Love yourself, believe in yourself
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| Be true to yourself, be you for yourself, do you?
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| Caught up in a web of deception
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| From this shit I done learned new lesson
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| Work and work with no pay
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| Punch a clock but never end your day, yeah
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| You run along but you not know
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| You climb inside but you can’t grow
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| You cry, cry, cry, revolution
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| But there is no solution
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| 'Cause you’re the pollution, yeah
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| Caught up in a web of deception
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| Nigga, learn your lesson |