| Fortunate for me, I couldn’t afford to be fortunate,
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| shit, we’re like the kid and his fortune never missed,
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| according to the landlord I’m poor as piss,
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| Trying to get not as poor as Gordon Hicks,
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| but I know, the only show supporting this,
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| which I really don’t know how to turn against,
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| and I didn’t just come here to moan and bitch,
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| grown folks getting older on kids’benefits, it’s,
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| the return of the poor man’s rap,
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| for those who don’t own homes off coke rap,
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| and the raining and floods, showing that,
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| so them old school cats still broke from rap,
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| most they see the poor, what most MC’s ignore,
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| while most these MCs were born and grew up poor,
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| we’ll be slaves in the old workforce,
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| to pay for a government that don’t work for us.
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| (Oh my) oh, just trying to get by lord I’m,
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| (so tired) fighting to get my, trying to get my,
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| (dough right) no luck for me lately, it don’t phase me,
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| (s'alright) cause I make money, money don’t make me.
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| fortunately, I believe that we can all agree,
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| it is what it is, not what we thought it’d be,
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| and if what i live ain’t what I’m called to be,
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| I must have mistrained my psychology,
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| and it’s mystery, ain’t it, the kids among us miscreated,
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| history is just like a train without a destination,
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| we need food, clothes, and shelter,
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| so we hustle till we’re old and helpless,
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| and if you do only go for the gold and wealth,
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| you’re still alone cause you don’t know yourself,
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| at the end of the day, still gotta eat, still gotta feed your kids,
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| still gotta light and heat their cribs,
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| I understand that, nobody planned that,
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| and single mother’s asking where the f**k the man at?
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| but like the man, we do it for love,
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| from student to dog, from the schools to the clubs, it goes.
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| (Oh my) oh, just trying to get by lord I’m,
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| (so tired) fighting to get my, trying to get my,
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| (low ride) no luck for me lately, it don’t phase me,
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| (s'alright) cause I make money, money don’t make me.
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| (Oh my) oh, just trying to get by lord I’m,
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| (so tired) fighting to get my, trying to get my,
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| (low ride) no luck for me lately, it don’t phase me,
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| (s'alright) cause I make money, money don’t make me.
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| Oh my, oh my, oh my, oh oh my,
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| (fade to end) |