| These distraught thoughts of a single mother in a homeless shelter
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| About pain and heartache, ain’t nothing you can tell her
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| The case worker says that she should find a job
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| But does this worker know what kind of jobs that there are?
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| Degrading things like cleaning up people’s vomit
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| For a little bit of dough, and plus your brain gets nothing from it
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| I’m smarter than that this girl thinks to herself
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| I’m worth more than that, she thinks to herself
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| She pours a drink for herself while she stares out the window
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| This guy says he got work for her, maybe she should go to him yo
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| The money’s good, and plus he’ll dress her up nice
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| She left her baby’s daddy cuz he beat her up twice
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| She don’t really like sex
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| But she hates welfare checks
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| And where there’s money, that’s where she thinks there’s respect
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| And what’s this girl’s purpose? |
| Will she self-destruct?
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| When this sisters about to go down, who’s there to help her up?
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| Qui prendra soin de moi, quand dans mon coeur il fait trop froid
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| Quand dans la nuit je traîne ma peine;
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| Dans l’indifférence générale, je taille ma route
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| Qui prendra soin de moi, quand je serai au plus bas
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| Qui me dira lève la tête
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| Tu vaux mieux que ça. |
| Who’s there? |
| Who’s there?
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| These distraught thoughts of a young man in a rooming house
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| This messed up life, this poverty, he could do without
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| But what options does he have when all hope is gone?
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| A brother gotta eat, plus all the Henny and all the smoke is gone
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| All it takes is one quick stick
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| Gotta fill his belly now, which vic should he pick?
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| He does his dirt all by his lonely, forget his homies
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| He doesn’t fell like splitting any loot, them suckas be acting phony
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| So much potential but all gone to waste
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| Now he lurks in night, with a loaded gun on his waist
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| Too late for this lost soul, his life’s in a chokehold
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| Mentality is weak, and doing crime is all he knows
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| Never caring who he hurts, as long as he’s taking money
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| Forget an education, and legal ways of making money
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| And what’s this kid’s purpose? |
| Will he self-destruct?
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| When a brother’s about to go down, who’s there to help him up?
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| Who’s there for my people on the streets? |
| (Who's there? Who’s there?)
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| Who’s there for my people who got nothing to eat? |
| (Who's there? Who’s there?)
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| They build more prisons, and close down schools
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| Who’s there to teach the children the golden rules?(Who's there? Who’s there?)
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| Who’s there for my people in the streets?(Who's there? Who’s there?)
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| Who’s there for my people who got nothing to eat?(Who's there? Who’s there?)
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| They break our family, neglect the elderly
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| Who’s there to bring a cure? |
| Where’s the remedy?(Who's there? Who’s there?) |