| I’ve got something to tell you
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| I believe you, I believe you
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| I’ve got something to tell you
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| I believe you really ought to know
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| This is my life
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| (Think about it echoeing in background)
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| It started when my pops moved away from Africa
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| When to college in America, and met my mom in Canada
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| Interracial couple, no one would date 'em double
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| That’s about the time my momma’s stomach grew a bubble
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| I was still inside, I wasn’t black, I wasn’t white
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| But to the world I was still a nigga, just a little light
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| No time for ignorance, I just gotta live my life
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| Treat everybody with respect and hope that they can get it right
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| 'Cause when I was a youth, my parents moved to California
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| Said that I would understand it more when I became older
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| The south was segregated, the East was way behind
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| It’s not the color of your skin, but what’s inside your mind
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| The motto that I kept in every house a nigga slept
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| On every block that I roamed, on every spot I called home
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| I went to Jr. High with all the Asians and the Blacks
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| Learned to give respect and expect to get it back
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| Every time I meet a different race I try to learn somethin'
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| In the Barrio, eat burritos like it’s nothin'
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| Keep an open mind, got a lot left to do
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| Learned to surf from a nigga, learned to rap from a Jew
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| Gotta spread knowledge every time I’m on stage
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| This is the book of life, every day’s another page
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| So when my time is up and I fall over dead
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| I hope I was successful like im gettin in your head.--~~~~PILLZBARRY
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| This is my life
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| (Think about it echoeing in background)
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| I’ve got something to tell you
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| I believe you, I believe you
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| I’ve got something to tell you
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| I believe you really ought to know
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| They wanna keep us divided so that we’re easy to control
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| Color this, color that, there ain’t no color in my soul
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| I don’t separate, nope, I definitely don’t discriminate
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| Fuck David Koresh, and fuck the KKK
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| 'Cause my parents were hippies, teach me peace and love
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| Taught me all people were equal, don’t be mean to no one
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| So I took the information, and when I watched when I was young
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| I lot of kids in my classes acted racist and dumb
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| Only a handful of black kids that went to my school
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| I overheard them being called the n-word by the cool
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| And when my back’s turned, I’m a money hungry Jew
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| I didn’t blame 'em, they just had an ignorant point of view
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| I’m lucky I got white friends, Puerto Ricans, and Indians
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| And do business on a mission with a black dude and Mexican
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| No questions; |
| treat each other like a family is how we livin'
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| So when I rap, understand I wanna reach the children
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| We gotta open up our mind like Cheech & Chong
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| In a world full of Jimmy the Greek’s and Rush Limbaugh’s
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| They’re tellin' lies and they love to generalize
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| I believe don’t believe in nothin' unless you’ve seen it with your own eyes
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| This is my life
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| (Think about it echoeing in background)
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| I’ve got something to tell you
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| I believe you, I believe you
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| I’ve got something to tell you
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| I believe you really ought to know |