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Artist: JAY-Z
Canonical path: /jay-z/twelve-o-clock
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Twelve O'clock
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Twelve O'clock
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You could ask yourself a question, do i feel lucky?
Well do you, punk?
Ladies and gentlemen
Father comes home from work and he's scared to death
Underground …
Father runs to the table he said what's going on?
Mother … desperately, our little baby is gone
Do you know where your children are?
Because it's not 12 o'clock, and they're somewhere out on the street
Just imagine how scared they are
Do you know where your children are?
Because it's not 12 o'clock, and they're somewhere out on the street.
Just imagine how scared they are
She wrote that … use it up
Saying that … while sexually abusing her
Just think that she's all alone somewhere out on the street
How does these girls survive she ain't got nothing to eat.
Do you know where your children are?
Because it's not 12 o'clock, and they're somewhere out on the street
Just imagine how scared they are
Do you know where your children are?
Maintaining this is the same old thang
Little stress, little fault, too much change
I see you kept it moving, you see i kept improving
See now we have an agreement, remember how i used to walk up and down the
Put it down to the streets watching … hood it down
Just to earn … what good is it now
Do you know where your children are?
Because it's not 12 o'clock, and they're somewhere out on the street
Just imagine how scared they are
Do you know where your children are?
Because it's not 12 o'clock, and they're somewhere out on the street
Just imagine how scared they are
Save me from this …
Save me cause i am on a …
Save me cause i am a man
Save me cause …
Save me cause i'm on a debt,
Save me cause i'm at the door
Save me
Now she's on the move, she's off to hollywood
She says she wanna be a star, she heard the money is good
She gets off from the train station, a man is waiting there
I'll show you what the money is, girl just let down your hair
He's taking her on the streets of sunset boulevard
She's telling how … girl that will take it for
The police comes around the corner …
He's arresting this little girl she's only 12 years old
Do you know where your children are?
Because it's not 12 o'clock, and they're somewhere out on the street
Just imagine how scared they are
Do you know where your children are?
Because it's not 12 o'clock, and they're somewhere out on the street
Just imagine how scared they are x 4
Underground …
Father runs to the table he said what's going on?
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