Key: D major
Verse 1
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Please believe that,
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some how, some way
We gotta make it up out
the hood some day
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Some how, some way
We gotta make it up out this life, c'mon
Some how, some way
We gotta make it up out the
Verse 2
Rap metaphors and riddle out
hospital out this motherfucker
Some how we gotta get up
out this motherfucker
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Some day the cops'll kill a motherfucker
I don't always want to be this drug dealing motherfucker,
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damn
Wish I could take us all on this
magic carpet ride
me and my boys we
All poor getting high, I
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Seen the worst of the worst,
I deserve every blessing
I received I'm from the dirt
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I, planted my seed on unfertile land
Myrtle Park, Marcy,
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Flushing and Nostrand, and
Still I grew, some how I knew that
the sun'll shine through
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And, touch my soul take
hold of my hand
Look man, a tree grows in Brooklyn
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Some how,
Verse 3
some way
I gotta make it up out the hood someday
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Some how, some way
Some way, I gotta make it up
out the hood someday
Verse 4
ain't forget you
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Twenty niggas on the block
Nosey neighbors and haters
keep their face on stuck
Moms smoke,
kids can't chase the ice cream truck
Niggas fighting over coke,
the young boys light things up
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All the petty ass wars fuck
the night scene up
Remember Lil' Eddie draw,
man how he light mean up
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Then they wonder why we light green up
Back to back steamers,
trying to relax but I can't, I lean up
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Ain't the L or the refer that steam
up (that steam up)
It's my head and I'm stressed
to the point I get a fever
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Thinking 'bout the block and
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all the mothers and kids
That can't leave and how
the Chinks gotta feed 'em
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For the rest of their life
The fucking wings,
fried vegetable rice (gotta be kidding)
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No breakfast Cap'n Crunch at night
How kids eating lunch at night?
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In their beds all bunched in tight
No less than three or four, know how it go
Two by the foot, two by the headboard
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Man, I'm getting scared for
them (yeah I know)
That's how I feel for 'em
And we gotta grip the shorties on the block
Cop their quarties
Enough to get the latest Roc,
Verse 5
some way
We gon' make it up out
the hood someday
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Some how, some way
We gon' make it up out this life
And some how, some way
We go' make it up out the
Some way,
Verse 6
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Right here another lil' story 'bout
this clique I claimed
Another chapter based on how
I get that game
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Hanging round my neighborhood,
bang my street
Sit and watch the passer-
bys play my sweep
South Park
Niggas all got guns
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Over here we got this code Charlie,
get that there
We know tomorrow ain't a
promise so we get that tnow
Fuck sitting in the living room
guarding the steps
Working inside a smoke house
starving to death
Agents snapping your picture
Neighbors plotting to get ya
Situations is critic
I was out here to get it
Living it like a savage,
'cause nigga I gotta have it
Erase enough to walk it down
and fuck it all y'all
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Lord be willing and the creek don't rise
I'ma be a nigga and these
streets gon' rise
(Some how, some way)
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(Some how, some way)
I'ma be a nigga and these
streets gon' rise
(Some how, some way)
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Some how,
Verse 7
some way
We gotta make it up out
the hood some day
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Some how, some way
We gotta make it up out this life, c'mon
Some how, some way
We gotta make it up out the
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hood some day
Outro 1
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