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Artist: Joy Oladokun
Canonical path: /joy-oladokun/taking-the-heat
Related lyric paths: 6
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taking the heat
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taking the heat
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I know what it's like to think about everybody else
And wonder if anybody else is thinking 'bout me
I know what it's like to hold a weight so deep in yourself
You wonder if anybody else could ever carry
The pain of it
The rage of what
It takes to just
Be awake
Nobody ever wonders how the strong stay strong
They get what they want and then they move along
Never think twice about what could be
Does anybody wonder when the legеnds die young
If there's anything that wе could have done
To stop a strong one from taking the heat?
Know what it's like to keep it all in my head
Until my worries like a knife in my chest
Split me open while I'm lying in bed
What else am I gonna have to lose?
What other magic tricks will I have to do
Until I finally have nothing left to prove?
The pain of it
The rage of what
It takes to just
Be awake
Nobody ever wonders how the strong stay strong
They get what they want and then they move along
They never think twice about what could be
Does anybody wonder when the legends die young
If there's anything that we could have done
To stop a strong one from taking the heat?
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh
Nobody ever wonders how the strong stay strong
They get what they want and then they move along
They never think twice about what could be
Does anybody wonder when the legends die young
If there's anything that we could have done
To stop a strong one from taking the heat?
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh, ooh
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh
To stop a strong one from taking the heat
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