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− | <poem>I remember you was conflicted | + | <poem>I remember you was conflicted, |
− | Misusing your influence | + | Misusing your influence, |
− | Sometimes I did the same | + | Sometimes I did the same, |
− | Abusing my power full of resentment | + | Abusing my power, full of resentment, |
− | Resentment that turned into a deep depression | + | Resentment that turned into a deep depression, |
− | Found myself screaming in a hotel room | + | Found myself screaming in the hotel room, |
− | I didn't want to self-destruct | + | I didn't wanna self destruct, |
− | The evils of Lucy was all around me | + | The evils of Lucy was all around me, |
− | So I went running for answers | + | So I went running for answers, |
− | Until I came home | + | Until I came home, |
− | But that didn't stop survivors guilt | + | But that didn't stop survivor's guilt, |
− | Going back and forth | + | Going back and forth trying to convince myself the stripes I earned, |
− | Trying to convince my self the stripes I earned
| + | Or maybe how A-1 my foundation was, |
− | Or maybe how A-1 my foundation was | + | But while my loved ones was fighting the continuous war back in the city, |
− | But while my loved ones was fighting | + | I was entering a new one, |
− | A continuous war back in the city
| + | A war that was based on apartheid and discrimination, |
− | I was entering a new one | + | Made me wanna go back to the city and tell the homies what I learned, |
| + | The word was respect, |
| + | Just because you wore a different gang colour than mine's, |
| + | Doesn't mean I can't respect you as a man, |
| + | Forgetting all the pain and hurt we caused each other in these streets, |
| + | If I respect you' we unify and stop the enemy from killing us, |
| + | But I don't know' I'm no mortal man' maybe I'm just another mortal man. |
| </poem> | | </poem> |