| Yo yo
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| Badmon representin'
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| Yo yo
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| They say you never know what you got
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| 'Til it’s all up and away
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| And it’s so lonely at the top
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| Sometimes you wanna throw it away
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| But lately I’ve been talking to God
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| He told me Heaven is a way better place
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| So I’m taking everything that I’ve got
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| And I’m running away, I’m running away
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| I just can’t cope with the pain
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| You just won’t understand
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| Running away (away from here)
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| I’m running away
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| I just can’t cope with the pain
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| You just won’t understand
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| Running away (away from here)
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| Gone like the wind, I can’t seem to win
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| I know the end is near, but I just don’t know when
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| Turn on to CNN, look at what I see again
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| It’s another black man, died at the white hand of justice
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| To tell the truth, man, I’m fuckin' disgusted
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| I fear for the lives, for my sisters, my brothers
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| Less fortunate than I, let’s formulate a plan
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| I’m sick of holdin' grudges, I’m loadin' in all my slugs and
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| Aimin' it at the judges, fuck the cops
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| Fuck the system and the government, you fuckers not
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| Protectin' and servin'
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| You more like damagin' and hurtin'
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| And letting off shots 'til you motherfuckers certain
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| He ain’t breathin', you made it clear
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| «Fuck your breath, nigga,» don’t even deserve air
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| Don’t even deserve shit, don’t even deserve nothin'
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| If black lives really mattered, you niggas would do somethin'
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| Instead we mean nothin', in fact, we being hunted
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| They don’t want us in abundance
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| They know it’s strength in them numbers
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| That’s why they gave you one
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| The time is comin', no discussion
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| If you ain’t got a gun, then you better start runnin'
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| Run to the rock of my salvation (yeah, yeah, yeah)
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| Run to the stone that the builder rejected (yeah, yeah, yeah)
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| I run to aboriginal, Christ, Haile Selassie
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| Hear them call some other name
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| Them other guy nuh qualified
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| A long long time mi see ah idiot a try
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| Tell me America is the land of the free, that’s a lie
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| 'Cause nobody, nuh free 'bout yah
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| Bet how we leave Babylon, and go ah Ethiopia
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| And if you don’t believe we can achieve that
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| Then you is just another idiot or another
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| Motherfucker, it’s the J-O-Z-I-F B-A-D-M-O-N
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| Come on, bring them M’s on in
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| I’m on the upside now, you can turn 'em M’s upside down
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| We 'bout to win, there’s an L for the other side of him
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| Most greats that you lost, I invite 'em in
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| To my soul, don’t you feel the vibes when I’m channelin'?
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| The innermost of my spirit been engulfed with plenty gold
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| 'Cause most of them labels throw pennies so
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| Who you think investin' in penitentiaries though?
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| Same owners as them labels, same owners of your cable
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| Spoon feedin' you fables, tryna keep your mind stable
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| Your eyes blind, and your skin’s hazel
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| The truth is under your nasal but even the air’s all fucked up
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| How we supposed to see stars? |
| Chemical trails above us
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| Plus bunch of other shit that’s undiscovered
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| Detached from the roots since we set sail, my brothers
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| That’s word to motherland, sold us on stolen land
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| Visions from brother man, he seen us all holdin' hands
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| Fifty years later, still see my brothers choked to death
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| R.I.P. |
| to Eric Garner, only right I show respect
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| Nowaday they hangin' us by a different tree
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| Branches of the government, I can name all three
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| Judicial, legislative and executive
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| Lock your pops away, your moms, then next the kids
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| It’s all consecutive, I’m just tryna break the cycle
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| I wonder if I’ll do it all before they take my life, yo
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| Crucify my image, the Lord is my witness
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| If them Heaven’s gates closed
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| I’ma break all them hinges for my niggas
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| Yes, I’ma break all the hinges for my niggas
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| Yes, I’ma break all the hinges for my niggas
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| Yes, I’ma break all
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| They say you never know what you got
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| 'Til it’s all up and away
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| And it’s so lonely at the top
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| Sometimes you wanna throw it away
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| But lately I’ve been talking to God
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| He told me Heaven is a way better place
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| So I’m taking everything that I’ve got
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| And I’m running away, I’m running away
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| I just can’t cope with the pain
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| You just won’t understand
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| Running away (away from here)
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| I’m running away
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| I just can’t cope with the pain
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| You just won’t understand
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| Running away (away from here)
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| As fast as I can to Mount Zion
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| I’m running away (I'm running away)
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| I’m running away (I'm running away)
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| I’m running away (I'm running away)
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| I’m running away (I'm running away)
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| I’m running away (I'm running away)
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| I’m running away (I'm running away)
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| Running away (I'm running away)
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| Away, running away
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| You better start running, running
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| Babylon boy them ah coming, coming yeah
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| You better start running, running
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| Babylon is coming
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| Babylon get jealous of we, of we
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| Just because I walk this way
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| Babylon get jealous of we, of we |