| You’re my darlin', darli’n baby.
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| Someday a change will come, you will see.
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| You’re my darlin', darlin' baby
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| I know that you’ll be free, if you just believe.
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| I see him walking on the sidewalk early morn',
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| backpack, old shoes, no jacket on.
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| Head down, eyes fixed on the ground,
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| you can tell he don’t really wanna take a look around,
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| 'cause he’s living in a war zone.
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| Just passed that spot where his big brother got shot.
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| His mama never tells him «come home».
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| Ever since bruh died, all she ever do is snort «hop».
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| Everybody thinks he’s dead wrong,
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| in the back of the class,
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| don’t nobody really think he can pass,
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| but he’s not a quitter.
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| And he’s scared of the past,
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| so the future is all that he has, gotta go and get it.
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| And he don’t learn quick,
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| and he’s not that smart, but the boy got heart,
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| and that’s all that he needs, with his goals and his dreams.
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| You can make it, if you just believe.
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| (Just believe.)
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| You’re my darlin', darlin' baby.
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| Someday a change will come, you’ll see.
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| You’re my darlin', darlin' baby.
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| I know that you’ll be free, if you just believe.
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| I see her standing on the Ave, in her short dress.
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| 15 years old, maybe a little less.
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| And her so-called boyfriend is 25.
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| He says if she ever leaves, then she gone die.
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| First time was the worse time,
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| might as well get paid for it, that’s what her boyfriend said.
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| Men form a long line,
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| for the piece of the princess,
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| but her soul ain’t dead.
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| Mama got a,
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| little flame and it flickers in the abstract
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| — that's a true North star.
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| She gone make a run for her freedome,
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| all she gotta do is backtrack- and be who you are.
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| Freedom’s in the heart.
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| And her innocence’s gone,
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| and the pain last long, but she will move on,
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| because all that she needs is her goals and her dreams.
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| You can make it if you just believe.
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| (Just believe)
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| You’re my darlin', darlin' baby.
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| Someday a change will come, you will see.
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| You’re my darlin', darlin' baby.
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| I know that you’ll be free, if you just believe.
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| Now the children of the land, they can care less,
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| about the ideologies and the politics.
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| Ain’t no philosophy ever feed me,
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| a kid starving ain’t thinking about chemistry.
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| And we plan so long that we don’t do,
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| and we really wanna help, but we don’t move.
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| And we get gridlocked, and we just stop.
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| But if you listen, you can still hear the bodies drop.
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| So you wanna save the world?
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| Well you better save the block first,
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| it’s a ticking time bomb.
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| And if you come into my hood,
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| understand you gotta knock first,
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| because respect goes long.
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| Right now it’s the time to decide what it is.
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| Can’t do it for yourself, then do it for the kids.
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| Because all that we need, is our goals and our dreams.
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| We can make it if you just believe.
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| (just believe)
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| You’re my darlin', darlin' baby.
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| Someday a change will come, you’ll see.
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| You’re my darlin', darlin' baby.
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| I know that you’ll be free if you just believe.
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| I know that you’ll be free, if you just believe. |