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bowing before god im praying that tomorrow ill awaken/
so much pressure i cant fail, i cant be mistaken/
seeing my friends fall to my left and right, their lives taken/
all i ask is god why i have been foresaken?/

<v1>
starting from birth, im comin up from a broken home/
never could adjust to it, feeling all alone/
i cant change the way i feel, cant change this tone/
i had some good times but never true happiness/
hardened by my childhood, i go on emotionless/
feeling the weight of the world from all of my stress/
success seems improbable, im startin to depress/
im starting to lose touch with this earth and reality/
dont really care anymore, aint asking for pity/
im going through my life going nowhere/
nothing keeping me from wallowing in despair/
if i was to die tonite, would anyone even care?/

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<v2>
see try to grasp what this life of mine is really like/
they only way i can express myself is through this mic/
envision being told since u was a child u had no futura/
through my words i give u a mental image, a pictura/
of what it was like to be told that u were shit/
and by ur god damn own family, thats a low hit/
so i pick up the pen and let u read what i writ/
so u can relate to the shit im saying when i spit/
being rejected, hated upon, my very heart was torn/
couldnt understand y this was a youngin acting forlorn/
but it was broke and cant be fixed for a reason/
my family left me out to hang, committed treason/

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<v3>
but if u thinkin this is the end, thinkin ill surrender/
bitch u dont know me then cuz i aint a pretender/
im a survivor and soldier, i aint gonna let up now/
now im elevating and success is but a step away, i no how/
standing in my way i hold this gun up to ur head and pow/
its over now i cant be stopped, im rising and on my way/
soon enough ill finally succeed thatll be my day/
staying straight battling these tougher times/
ill stay here expressing myself through all of my rhymes/
and eventually ill rise above this earth to a better place/
ill succeed in this life with or without gods grace/
bitch u best get to no me and my face/

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