| At school the teacher always stands up, we all sit down
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| Positions of strength, listen at length
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| See the desire for change of placement
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| Write fight poems in the basement
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| There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home
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| There’s no place like anywhere else, let me roam
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| If I find myself between a hard place and a rock
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| That rock better move, it’ll have to mace me to stop
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| I walk my block like a decorated general
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| Talk my talk like I have big genitals
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| Is there any other way for me to do my thing?
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| Yes, but any other way seems to make stress
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| Examine your position, see where you stand (stand)
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| Most want power and never take a hand
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| Land worth money, money worth work
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| Work’s worth blood, sweat, and tears on your shirt
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| Pursue it like a policeman chasing a cop killer
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| Do it all together and make life iller
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| Aspirin' to politics, lie and serve
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| Let the bipartisan car roll in and strike a nerve
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| It’s funding, finding ways of unbinding
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| Power, money, headaches, and resources
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| Is people, people in unfortunate places
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| Want to lash out but don’t know where the fucking recourse is
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| In this system, our system, or any other system
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| There’s leaders, followers, and victims
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| Shift them all around like some pieces from a game
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| It all stays the same
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| Positions of strength
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| The actor on the stage, the teacher at the desk
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| Celebrity, paparazzi, stalker, bum
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| The soldier with the gun, the robber with the mask
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| Leader, follower
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| Go ahead and join the army, what a selfless act
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| Put yourself at the bottom of the chain like that
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| Wait, selfish? |
| Wanna climb the chain of command?
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| What’s it matter? |
| At the top, you will understand
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| Protect the peace, protect my piece
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| I’ve been working on defying my leash
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| At least you’re free to join up; |
| I’m free to go out and play
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| We’re both free to work our asses off any day
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| So you worked against the normal, boring
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| Find alternative ventures and start your exploring
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| Morals imposed, don’t let them stop you
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| From doing what you gotta do to get new clothes
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| And Al Capone thought like that, it worked for a while
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| Enjoyed his 15 minutes with a gun and a smile
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| Shoulda been a Coke but times were too wild
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| Power’s pretty dope, any means anyhow
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| There’s always the small ones, leads to road rage
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| Mad 'cause my cage is uglier than your cage
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| Pave the way for balance and equality
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| Now everybody else, follow me
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| Positions of strength
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| The actor on the stage, the teacher at the desk
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| Celebrity, paparazzi, stalker, bum
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| The soldier with the gun, the robber with the mask
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| Leader, follower
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| Sometimes it’s clear, like a pimp to a whore
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| Sometimes it’s effect, don’t know the cause anymore
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| Big fist, little fist, red fish, blue
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| Power and resentment, nothing’s really new
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| O’er the land of the free and the home of the slaves
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| Many brave souls have changes the old ways
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| There’s still pride in my step, they’re hypin' my rep
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| Which is all you’ve really got these days (these days)
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| Hustler, make your money; |
| mayor, run your town
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| Winners, make your speech and don’t ever fall off (down)
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| Losers, make your peace, don’t ever get clowned
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| The teacher always stands in a position of strength
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| The actor on the stage, the teacher at the desk
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| Celebrity, paparazzi, stalker, bum
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| The soldier with the gun, the robber with the mask
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| Leader, follower |