| It’s all a struggle — and most people’s struggles are doubled
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| You ain’t the only one with a challenge facin some trouble
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| Look at the woman chewed up by the dog with no muzzle
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| Or the workers that got trapped underground in that tunnel
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| Some kids are playin in pools, others in puddles
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| When they listen to the news the propoganda is subtle
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| But it’s time for you to know that the cryin got to go Release the guilt that you built and let it flow
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| Slow and low, that is the tempo
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| Move slow and on the low, this you gotta know
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| You don’t get the muscles without the hard struggles
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| You ain’t the only one out here tryin to get dough
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| From the hustler to the preacher to the government leaders
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| From the airline pilot to the chef to the teachers
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| We linked in the same huddle, in the same tussle’n’bustle
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| Cause at the end of the day, it’s all a struggle
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| It’s all a struggle — but don’t let the challenges bug you
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| Or the government drug you, or the thieves in the street
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| beat and mug you — build your tunnel under the rubble
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| Come up on the other side eye to eye with the trouble
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| Look at the Twin Towers crumble
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| Look at the religious leadership stumble, everybody struggles
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| But not everybody comes through nifty, it’s fifty/fifty
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| The city itself will outrun you quickly
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| Whether you be healthy or sickly
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| Whether you be wealthy or thrifty, ugly or pretty
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| Everybody’s tryin to get 50's and 100's
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| I taught this at UCLA just off Sunset
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| Now run get «Ruminations»
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| It’s a book that I published for the healing of this nation
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| In just a few chapters we run through, some possible solutions
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| Cause at the end of the day
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| It’s all a struggle |