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Why you wanna tell me how to live my life?
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And who are you to tell me if it's black or white?
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Mama, can you hear me? Try to understand
Is
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innocence the difference between a boy and a man?
My
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daddy lived a lie, it's just the price that he paid
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Sacrificed his life, just slavin' away
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Take a look around you, nothing's what it seems
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living in the broken home of hopes and dreams
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Let me be the first to shake a helping hand
Of
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anybody brave enough to take a stand
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knocked on every door down every dead end street
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Looking for forgiveness and what's left to believe?