Intro
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[Verse 1]
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Ya see a man at your liquor store beggin'for ya change
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His teeth are rotten and his eys bloodshot and his covered in mange
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He ask the man for what he could spare with shame in his eyes
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"Get a job, you fucking slob" is all he replies
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God forbid you'd haved to walk a mile in his shoes
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Cause then you really might know what it's like to sing the blues
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Then you really might know what it's like (what it's like)
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Then you really might know what it's like (what it's like)
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Then you really might know what it's like
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Sing the blues
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[Verse 2]
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Knew a girl named Mary met a kid named Jack said he was in love
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He said. "Don't worry baby girl I'm the man you've been dreaming of
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Three months later he said he won't date her or return her calls
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She says "Goddamn, if I find that man, I'm cuttin' off his balls!"
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Go's to the clinic and she gets some static outside the door
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They call her a killer, and they call her a sinner, and they call her a whore!
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God forbid you'd haved to walk a mile in her shoes
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Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to choose
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Then you really might know what it's like (what it's like)
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Then you really might know what it's like (what it's like)
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Then you really might know what it's like (what it's like)
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To have to choose
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[Verse 3]
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Knew a guy named Max he used to roll fat stacks on the corner with drugs
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Use to hang with the players roll with the gangbangers and chill with the thugs
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Until one night there was a big gunfight Max lost his head
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He pulled out his Colt.45 talked some shit And wound up dead
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God forbid you ever had to wake up to hear the news
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Cause then you really might know what it's like to have to lose
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Then you really might know what it's like (what it's like)
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Then you really might know what it's like (what it's like)
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Then you really might know what it's like (what it's like)
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To have to lose...
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