Key: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Surrounded by four walls
His parents give him love and affection
To keep him strong,
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Livin' just enough,
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Am
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just enough for the city
His father works some days
for fourteen hours
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An d you can bet he
barely makes a dollar
His mother goes and scrambles for money
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An d you can bet she barely
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just enough for the city
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His sister's black,
but she is sure not pretty
Her skirt is short, Lord her legs are sturdy
To walk to school, she got to get up early
Her clothes are old, but hardly never dirty
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Livin' just enough,
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just enough for the city
Her brother's strong,
he got more sense than many
His patient's strong,
but soon he won't have any
To find a job is like a haystack mill
Cause where you live,
they don't use colored people
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Livin' just enough,
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just enough for the city
Hey, hey, hey, hey
Livin' for the city
For nothing but the city
His hair is long, his feet are hard and gritty
He spends his time walking the
streets of New York City
He's almost dead from
freezing and pollution
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just enough for the city
Just enough living for the city
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I hope you hear inside
my voice the sorrow
And finally makes me feel
nowhere could be much colder
If we don't change,
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Living just enough, just enough
Living just enough
You see we're livin' for a sin
Just enough to just workin' for the time
Just enough, hey, workin' for the sin
Just enough, huh, just workin' for the sin
Just enough, hoo, hoo
Just enough, workin' for the sin
Just enough, nothing but the same
Looking for a change
We're living for the same
And nothing but the same
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