Key: D# minor
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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5:30 in the morning and I haven't been to sleep
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A pair of raggedly ass
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ProWings on my feet
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Ten dollars in my pocket and
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now I'm on the creep
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to the double-up spot spot 'cause
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the shit is comin cheap
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It's 1984 and the rocks is all fat
Southern California, LA is where it's at
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I'm smokin like a mother
fuckin choo-choo train
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Big cocaine inside my brain, aah
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But nobody knows that
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I'm on the hype
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Use to be in CREAM, well
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now I hit the pipe
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Face sucked in, yellow tooth grin
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No bitches, no friends, no ends to spend
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I'm stuck like a rat in a sticky ass trap
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and I sold everything but my
motherfuckin gat
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I got a habit like a rabbit
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and I want to stop it
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but I can't 'cause I'm locked
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'n da closet
Bridge:
Verse 2
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Oh make me want to holler,
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right into my life
Oh make me want to holler,
right into my life
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Oh make me want to holler,
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right into my life
Listen homey
Verse 3
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No re habilitation,
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no wantin to talk to...
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Doin crimes on every fuckin
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place I can walk to
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I still get props in the hood
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when I stroll by
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'cause niggas don't know that
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I'm smokin like Popeye
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Mama's in the kitchen cookin rice
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Daddy's in the pen doin life
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Sis ter gotta husband, she's a wife
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And I'm in the backyard
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hittin the pipe
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It's been three or four months
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since I started usin
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It's a uphill battle and now I know I'm losin
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I go to the spots where my
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face ain't familiar
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and I cook here jack 'cause
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I don't know these niggas
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I'm livin like a peasant
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and it ain't pleasant
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I think I need to change my direction
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I got the five dollar piece now
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I'm all in the carpet
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in the dark 'cause
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I'm locked 'n da closet
Verse 4
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Chorus:
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Someone's knockin at the door,
E
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somebody's ringin a bell
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Somebody's locked n da closet,
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somebody's goin to hell
Do me a favour,
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open the door and let em have it
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Ooh yeah yeah yeah yeah
Verse 5
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One year done passed and
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now I'm lookin dusty
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Disgusted because my own
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mama don't trust me
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My sister's on the trip 'cause she
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knows I'm on the hit
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And I can't take this shit
There's a rumour goin round
that I'm puffin heavily
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and my neighbours is lookin at me crazy, G
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I guess they figured out that I
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broke in they house
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and stole all they shit while they was out
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My sis ter told my aunt
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and my aunt told Pam
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and Pam let it slip to that
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bitch Roxanne
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Roxanne told Bill
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and Bill told Duke
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Now the whole hood knows
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that I play the flute
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But before I lost my respect
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I didda lick your dumb ass on a jet,
SHIT!
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Now I'm back to life,
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yeah I'm back to reality
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Ain't no side effects
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or technicalities
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There's one thing about
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it when your life is fucked
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At the bottom the only way to
go is up, aah
No more cocaine bitches
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I kick the door off the
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motherfuckin hinges
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I'm out the closet
*screaming*
Chorus:
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Someone's knockin at the door,
Verse 6
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B
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somebody's ringin a bell
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Somebody's locked n da closet,
E
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somebody's goin to hell
Do me a favour,
E
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G#m
open the door and let em have it
E
C#m
let em have it
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Someone's knockin at the door,
Verse 7
E
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somebody's ringin a bell
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Somebody's locked n da closet,
E
B
C#m
somebody's goin to hell
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Do me a favour,
E
C#m
open the door and let em have it
G#m
B
Ooh yeah yeah yeah yeah
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