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Eminem - Sing For The Moment - 2003
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These ideas are nightmares to white parents
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Whose worst fear is a child with dyed hair and who likes earrings
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Like whatever they say has no bearing,
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It's so scary in a house that allows
No swearing
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To see him walking around
with his headphones blaring
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Alone in his own zone, cold and he don't care
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He's a problem child
And what bothers him all comes out,
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when he talks about
His fuckin' dad walkin' out
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'Cause he just hates him so bad that he blocks him out
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If he ever saw him again he'd probably knock him out
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His thoughts are whacked, he's mad so he's talkin' back
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Talkin' black, brainwashed from rock and rap
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He sags his pants, do-rags and a stocking cap
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His step-father hit him, so he socked him back,
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and broke his nose
His house is a broken home,
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there's no control, he just let's his emotions
Go
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C'mon! Sing with me
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(Sing)
Sing for the year
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(Sing)
Sing for the laughter
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Sing for the tear
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C'mon! Sing with me
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Just for today,
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Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you
Away
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Entertainment is changin', interwinin' with gangsta's
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In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum
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Holy or unholy, only have one homie
Only this gun,
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lonely cause don't anyone know me
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Yet everybody just feels like they can relate,
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I guess words are a
Motherfucker they can be great
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Or they can degrade, or even worse they can teach hate
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It's like these kids hang on every single statement we make
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Like they worship us, plus all the stores ship us platinum
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Now how the fuck did this metamorphosis happen
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From standin' on corners and porches just rappin'
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To havin' a fortune, no more kissin' ass
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But then these critics crucify you, journalists try to burn you
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Fans turn on you, attorneys all want a turn at you
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To get they hands on every dime you have,
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they want you to lose your mind
Every time you mad
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So they can try to make you out to look like a loose cannon
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Any dispute won't hesitate to produce handguns
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That's why these prosecutors wanna convict me,
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strictly just to get me off
Of these streets quickly
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But all they kids be listenin' to me religiously,
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so I'm signin' CD's while
Police fingerprint me
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They're for the judge's daughter but his grudge is against me
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If I'm such a fuckin' menace, this shit doesn't make sense Pete
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It's all political, if my music is literal,
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and I'm a criminal how the fuck
Can I raise a little girl
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I couldn't. I wouldn't be fit to
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you're full of shit too, Guerrera, that
Was a fist that hit you
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C'mon! Sing with me
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(Sing)
Sing for the year
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(Sing)
Sing for the laughter
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Sing for the tear
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C'mon! Sing with me
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Just for today,
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Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you
Away
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They say music can alter moods and talk to you
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Well can it load a gun up for you , and cock it too
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Well if it can, then the next time you assault a dude
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Just tell the judge it was my fault and I'll get sued
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See what these kids do is hear about us totin' pistols
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And they want to get one 'cause they think the shit's cool
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Not knowin' we really just protectin' ourselves,
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we entertainers
Of course the shit's affectin' our sales,
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you ignoramus
But music is reflection of self,
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we just explain it, and then we get our
Checks in the mail
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It's fucked up ain't it
How we can come from practically nothing
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to being able to have any fuckin'
Thing that we wanted
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That's why we sing for these kids, who don't have a thing
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Except for a dream, and a fuckin' rap magazine
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Who post pin-up pictures on their walls all day long
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Idolize they favorite rappers and know all they songs
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Or for anyone who's ever been through shit in their lives
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'Til they sit and they cry at night wishin' they'd die
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'Til they throw on a rap record and they sit, and they vibe
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We're nothin' to you but we're the fuckin' shit in they eyes
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That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it,
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squeeze it and hold it
'Cause we consider these minutes golden
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And maybe they'll admit it when we're gone
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Just let our spirits live on, through our lyrics that
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you hear in our
Songs and we can
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Sing with me
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(Sing)
Sing for the year
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(Sing)
Sing for the laughter
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Sing for the tear
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C'mon! Sing with me
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Just for today,
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Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you
Away
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Sing with me
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(Sing)
Sing for the year
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(Sing)
Sing for the laughter
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Sing for the tear
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C'mon! Sing with me
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Just for today,
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Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you
Away
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Eminem - Sing For The Moment - 2003
