| You’re either on the offense
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| Or defense
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| You’re either on the offense o
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| Or defense
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| I think a lot of people think they’re in the middle
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| In a transit
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| You’re only on the offense
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| Or the defense
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| I’ve realized that
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| I’ve been on the offense my whole life
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| Because I never felt entitled to anything
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| An incredible thing happens
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| When you’re born with very little
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| You know, I was born in the Soviet Union
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| We come to America I live in a studio apartment in Queens
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| My parents bought me six toys
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| In my entire life kind of thing
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| We took one family vacation in my entire life
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| When I wanted Nintendo
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| My mom looked me dead in the face
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| And said, «Good, go buy it»
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| On the flip side
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| She reinforced things that came natural to me
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| And made them the most important things
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| While I was getting Ds and Fs
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| And every other immigrant parent
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| Was making their kids get
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| 'Cause they thought that’s what mattered
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| My mom was accelerating any time that
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| I showed compassion
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| Any time that I showed empathy
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| Any time that I showed gratitude
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| You’re either on the offense
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| Or defense
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| You’re either on the offense
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| Or defense
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| I think a lot of people think they’re in the middle
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| In a transit
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| You’re only on the offense
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| Or the defense
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| I once opened a door
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| And I will remember this for the rest of my life
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| I was eight
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| I opened a door for a woman
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| You would have thought
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| That I won a Nobel Peace Prize
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| My mom made such a big deal about that
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| You have to understand what she did
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| No matter how bad you have it
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| Millions, billions have it worse
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| And so, for me
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| The mindset that I pulled in this whole game
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| Is nobody cares
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| Nobody cares
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| And not that they don’t care, people have compassion
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| But they can’t
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| Think about how much you even care
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| Even for people you love the most
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| It’s just a human thing
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| And more importantly
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| We have it ridiculously good
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| You’re either on the offense
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| Or defense
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| You’re either on the offense
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| Or defense
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| I think a lot of people think they’re in the middle
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| In a transit
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| You’re only on the offense
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| Or the defense
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| This Internet thing
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| This Internet thing
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| Is the most important invention
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| In the history of the human being
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| All the things that you worry about
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| Of like the man stopping you
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| Or something stopping you
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| All these things that we envision
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| That are the reasons why you haven’t been successful
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| This Internet thing is taking away
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| The Internet
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| The Internet is the middleman
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| It’s true
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| You have to understand
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| How ridiculous
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| This thing is
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| The ability for you to create content
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| Videos, pictures, and written words direct to the audience
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| Eliminates any excuse you come up with
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| I could literally spend the next month one by one
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| Systematically going through this big room
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| And no matter what excuse you come up with
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| The answer’s gonna be, «And?»
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| We have to eliminate complaining
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| And dwelling
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| We have to
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| And that’s what she did for me
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| She instilled the right positive things
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| And most of all, she eliminated fucking excuses
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| She eliminated entitlement
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| She eliminated fucking excuses
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| She eliminated entitlement
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| 2x (Chorus)
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| You’re either on the offense
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| Or defense
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| You’re either on the offense
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| Or defense
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| I think a lot of people think they’re in the middle
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| In a transit
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| You’re only on the offense
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| Or the defense |