| I hear thunder
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| Looks like the rain
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| Is gonna start falling
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| Rain, falling from the sky
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| Rain, rain, rain, a wicked rain
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| Falling from the sky
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| Down, down, down, pouring down
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| Upon the night
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| Well there’s just one chance in a million
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| That someday we’ll make it out alive
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| Rain, rain, rain an evil rain
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| Falling all the time
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| Sun, sun, sun, sun
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| Don’t you ever want to shine
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| Well there’ll be no light in the morning
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| Till some peace at last we find
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| Like travellers in the darkness
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| Can’t see our way
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| Trying hard to make it through
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| Another day
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| Father, father, father
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| Why do you let your sons go astray
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| Brother, brother, brother
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| Why must we go on this way
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| There’s a storm off in the distance
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| And it looks like it’s here to stay
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| I was the third brother of five
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| Doing whatever I had to do to survive
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| I’m not saying what I did was alright
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| Tryin' to break out of the ghetto
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| Was a day to day fight
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| Bein' down so long
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| Getting' up didn’t cross my mind
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| But I knew there was a better way of life
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| And I was just tryin' to find
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| You don’t know what you’re doin'
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| Till you’re put under pressure
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| Across 100 and Tenth Street
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| Is a hell of a tester
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| Across 100 and Tenth Street
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| Pimps tryin' to catch a woman that’s weak
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| Across 100 and Tenth Street
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| Pushers won’t let the junkie go free
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| Across 100 and Tenth Street
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| A woman tryin' to catch a trick on the street
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| Across 100 and Tenth Street
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| You can find it all
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| Hey Brother, there’s a better way out
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| Snorting that coke, shooting that dope
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| Man, you’re coppin' out
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| Take my advice, it’s either live or die
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| You gotta be strong if you wanna survive
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| The family up on the other side of town
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| Will catch hell if I don’t get around
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| In ev’ry city you’ll find the same thing goin' down
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| Harlem is the capital of ev’ry ghetto town
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| Across 100 and Tenth Street
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| Pimps tryin' to catch a woman that’s weak
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| Across 100 and Tenth Street
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| Pushers won’t let the junkie go free
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| Across 100 and Tenth Street
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| You can find it all
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| Across 100 and Tenth Street
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| Let the sun, let the sun shine down
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| Across 100 and Tenth Street
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| Like travellers in the darkness
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| Can’t see our way
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| Across 100 and Tenth Street
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| Trying hard to make it
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| Make it through another day
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| Oh, stop the rain
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| Somebody stop the rain
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| Across 100 and Tenth Street
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| A little more love and a little less pain |