| I know all the times were hard
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| I know that you’ve been feeling down
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| If you only knew how I’m feeling for you
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| If I could take your pain
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| I wish that I could wash it all away
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| If you only knew how I’m feeling
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| Mommy, I’m sorry if my first letter made you cry
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| To be honest with you, I don’t think that I want to die
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| Sometimes I feel like that I’m cancerous in other’s lives
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| That’s probably why I drink at night and sleep 'til four or five
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| It’s kind of hard walking through life with my distorted eyes
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| When I was younger, I was stupid and I thought I’d thrive
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| I thought a lot about everything I said in the letter
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| And questioned whether or not if I was dead, you’d be better
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| You think my shorty would be happy if I never met her?
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| It’s too late now, mommy, I could never forget her
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| Could never forget how she taught me to love
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| Cause my father and my grandmother is always above
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| It’s glory above, you know that daddy taught me to thug
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| And every time we was with nanny she’d bombard me with hugs
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| Damn, I miss her, mommy, and it’s hard to believe
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| That I’m grown and I don’t understand it, why did they leave?
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| It’s better to die and sleep
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| Than never waking sleep
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| Than linger on and dare to live
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| When the soul’s life is gone
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| You’ve been running around for so long
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| You’ve been hurting yourself too much
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| You keep messing around with darkness
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| You’re the one who’s losing
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| You’ve been running around for so long
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| You’ve been hurting yourself too much
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| You keep messing around with darkness
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| You’re the one who’s losing
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| Mommy, I think that I’mma try to stick around a while
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| I got a niece, and my nephews, they need me around a while
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| I think they need me cause they hitting that age
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| And they ain’t trying to speak to Lenny cause they spitting they rage
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| Yeah, and mommy, speaking to Lenny, I think my brother need me
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| And we Italian, so you know my mother love to feed me
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| And it’s the little things you do for me that make it worth it
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| Like when I play a joint that we did and you say it’s perfect
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| And when Jake got knocked, you knew that I was hurt
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| You told me put all of my heart in the song, and it worked
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| I promised him that I’d be there when he got out the bing
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| You ain’t raise me to be a liar, ma, that’s not my thing
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| I told him that I’d hold him down the whole time that he gone
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| They kept him locked inside a cage, but that’s cool, cause he’s strong
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| So mommy, keep that first letter I wrote you on the low
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| I think I wanna stay alive and see if I can grow
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| You’ve been running around for so long
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| You’ve been hurting yourself too much
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| You keep messing around with darkness
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| You’re the one who’s losing
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| You’ve been running around for so long
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| You’ve been hurting yourself too much
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| You keep messing around with darkness
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| You’re the one who’s losing
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| «You have power and money, but you are mortal
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| You know you cannot escape death
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| But immortality can be obtained
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| The legend is always the same
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| If others have succeeded in conquering death
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| Why must we accept it?
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| I know where the immortals live
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| And how to obtain their secret
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| We too must become wise men
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| The elements of chemistry are many, but finite
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| So are the techniques of enlightenment»
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| I know all the times were hard
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| I know that you’ve been feeling down
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| If you only knew how I’m feeling for you
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| If I could take your pain
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| I wish that I could wash it all away
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| If you only knew how I’m feeling |