| Cancer is like a dark day
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| But how you think the dark comes to light?
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| Affects millions
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| Might’ve affected someone you know
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| Someone close to you, someone you love dearly
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| It does not discriminate
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| Help them to rise
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| Help others to rise
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| My man Star died from bone cancer
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| They couldn’t find an answer
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| Unregulated cell growth, malignant neoplasm
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| Two hundred known cancers
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| I will explain in my stanza
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| To determine what causes it is so complex
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| This time, you get to call X
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| Cancer is detected in various ways
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| Medical imagining and screening
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| Show cells that grow and divide
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| That’s why we need to get outside
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| Exercise is a must
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| Tobacco kills us
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| But sometimes it comes for no known reason
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| Chemo and radiation
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| A lot of people in this nation
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| Fight that battle every day
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| Thirteen percent of all human death
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| DNA mutations reaches all nations
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| Affects generations (families!)
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| Cancer is the great imitator
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| Sometimes it reveals itself much later
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| From a boss to a waiter
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| It don’t discriminate
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| It don’t discriminate
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| Hodgkin’s disease, leukemia
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| Cancer of the colon and the prostate
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| You need to get yourself straight
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| Cancer of the lungs is rising
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| The first thing you do in the morning is buy a loose
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| It feel like a boost
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| It’s a threat in that skinny cigarette
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| Exposed to asbestos in the air
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| In that jail, they wasn’t playing fair
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| Shit was everywhere
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| That’s why I lost two brothers that year
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| Lymphoma, melanoma; |
| this little place in Oklahoma
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| Devoted to the study that killed Rena
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| And Mr. Chin, my neighborhood cleaner
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| Pancreatic ain’t democratic
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| Aspirin helps seven percent
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| Them other medicines? |
| How can I pay the rent?
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| I need to help with breast cancer
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| Hope this bracelet on my wrist brings an answer
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| I’ll walk a thousand miles if it brings forth smiles
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| 3000 BC, the Egyptians described cancer
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| So why we ain’t got an answer?
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| The most common form of cancer’s on the skin
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| It might affected your friend
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| Count Basie, Bob Marley, Peter Falk, Walter Payton
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| I’m waiting for that budget, for them big funds
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| So we can cure our loved ones
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| Save the babies, the seeds
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| That’s what the world needs
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| Let’s explore needs
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| The Race for Life could save a life for your mama
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| I hope this strikes a nerve
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| But in the news we concerned with guns and purp
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| Have you ever been to Ronald’s House?
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| Take your family there |