Key: F# minor•
Verse 1
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The boy stood in the burning slum
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Better times had to come
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Fate lay in the hands that clap
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and the power that raps
Verse 2
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He went up on money street
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Waving and popping to the beat
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Off his wits and on his feet
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He worked a coin from the cold concrete
Verse 3
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Movers and shakers come on
Verse 4
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Where the highway meets the lights
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With a red bandanna, rapid wipes
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He shines glass and he cleans chrome
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He'll accept what he gets thrown
Verse 5
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This man earns 'cos it's understood
Times are bad and he's
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makin' good
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Down on him but he's got it beat
He's working coin from
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the cold concrete
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Verse 6
Verse 7
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And when I see you down and I say
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that ain't no way through
Verse 8
Verse 9
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Way back in some city heat
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When a friend was anybody with food to eat
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It was lousy life with a leaking roof
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We got up to find that truth
Verse 10
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Make a drum from a garbage can
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When the beat propels you off your seat
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You got it made in the cold concrete
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Verse 11
Verse 12
Outro 1
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