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Believer

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Believer

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Really would like to see the light shine

Water run down from my eye (light shine)

All day

There's main stream with the main dreams

But waterfalls start with a little stream

Even Kubrick started with a small scene

Before it became The Shining

If your coming from the hood work on getting knowledge

If your from the front line then you wanna survive

I didn't choose the battles but the battles choose me

When the bullet first hit my cousin Willsie

I been in the game now 5.3

Little shorty but got shorties after me

I stay humble cause the shit I see

Cos I already know there's only one me

I really would like to see the stars shine

But I like getting covered up in hard time

I need to let loose

And the water ran dry, and we got no juice

All day, I need a believer

There's more means or more mean

Every tree started with a little bean

Everything you go through at 17

Will it still count at 70?

If I'm coming from the street then I'm getting money

But my ideas in the bank are worth plenty

I didn't choose the music but the music chose me

The art of hitting your speakers making it bleed

I been thinking bout what affects me

The will to survive is always in me

Every glass of water grows, what I be?

And every glass of liquor gets me tipsy

I really would like to see the stars shine

But I like getting covered up in hard time

I need to let loose

And the water ran dry, and we got no juice

All day, I need a believer

It's about people, not money

Light up a parliament, turn a car key

I could be a genius, I could be a cheat

It's a thin line and I'm fucking with it

I didn't choose a struggle but the struggle chose me

I'm dancing on the rubble permanently

I'm cut from the cloth that you made me

When I'm driving down the alley these cats know me

If It's not cool, then we bring heat

If there's no heat then it's discreet

If it's got your feet, then it's on NEET

Anything on NEET has got that beat

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