The light
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The light is worth the wait, I promise
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Wait, why can't you do it?
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The light is worth the wait, I promise
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Wait, screamin', "Please don't do it"
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The light is worth the wait, I promise
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Wait, why did you do it?
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The light is worth the wait, I promise
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Wait, screamin', "Please don't do it"
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Sick of these niggas givin' me false info
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Like I ain't grow up on MTV, Boondocks and The Chapelle Show
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Bitch, I can handle the truth, that's how I enter the booth
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Look at these bruises I got
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It gave me so much confidence
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Back when I was making songs at my mama's crib
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The candles lit, the temperature risin'
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What type of man can find the right time to fly in?
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Especially when my cousin dyin'
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Should've never sold my soul, should've protected all my pay-ins
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To see the world move without you feel like a daydream
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Kool-Aid stands, Band-Aids wrapped around your beautiful hands
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Protect me from the city, couldn't save me from the world
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Back then, had Yeezy on repeat in your whip, no peace in my streets
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And these days no license
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Only take the Jeep if my boyfriend is drivin'
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Plus he got the kinda skin that make the police like him
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Ever since I was a kid I always felt so frightened
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My mama from the ghetto
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Her vote go to any nigga that keep Jesus in the convo
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Me and her just get on good terms
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Thank God for them unexpected turns
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Breaks her heart when she see my city burn
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Thank God for teaching me how to learn
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Have empathy even when it burns
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But I hate that she got me in this box
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Expectin' me to see the light
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See the light, see the light
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All my niggas to the right, right, right
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You see the light, light, light, light
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And all my niggas to the left-right, left-right, left-right
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You see the light, light, light, light, light, light
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When that hammer pulled back, did you think of me?
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You were the one that taught me how to be
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Look at me now in all my glory
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Overcame a lot, that's a different story
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Abandoned by the life-giver
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Lookin' back at my life different
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Deep cuts in the dusk of the final gasp
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Before your life flashed
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What happens when you die? Does it fade black?
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I seen't you in my skin and the trucker cap
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Miss it when we laughed
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Didn't trust my intuition when I saw the cracks
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I'm sorry, all I ever wanna do is make you proud
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Fleetin' moments, always found a way around the frown
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Set aside the pain to celebrate the now
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Couldn't kick me out the house, I was f*cked up
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Nothing to prove without doubt, if I'm man enough
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What's the use? I could use you, 'cause I'm scared as f*ck
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Tuck me in, always young enough to feel loved
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And share some, are you lookin' down?
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And a child reachin' out, brittle boned, crying now
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The past does not define you
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The past does not define you
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The burden was too much
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Couldn't save you from yourself when you'd self-destruct
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Couldn't save me from myself when I pushed my luck
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To tell the truth, I am just like you
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Left it all in the pistol that you used
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Always be a little man, follow in your footsteps
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Even though I'm mad, even though you're gone
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You live on, and the day I have kids
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And tell 'em 'bout Grandpa and how great he is
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And the grandkids' grandkids you'll never meet
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If it weren't for you I wouldn't be, neither would they
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It's safe to say I find a way out the darkness
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The way you left ma hits me the hardest
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What a shame, things change in the blink of an eye
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Fade away, fast break to the depths in the sky
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And permanents turn permanent with a nine
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That's life, that's life
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The light is worth the wait, I promise
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Wait, why did you do it?
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The light is worth the wait, I promise
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Wait, screamin', "Please don't do it"
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The light is worth the wait, I promise
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Wait, why did you do it?
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The light is worth the wait, I promise
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Wait, screamin', "Please don't do it"
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