Intro
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It's just a dream
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It's just a dream
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It's just a dream
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It's just a dream
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It's just a dream
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It's just a dream
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It's just a dream
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It's just a dream
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[Verse]
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Down on the courts in Bed Stuy, a legend rose from the streets
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Just a poor kid with no use for what the others called gravity
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People came from all around to see young Connie Hawkins do his thing
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When the hawk went up against the best at Rucker Park, oh how the choir would sing
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High flying kid, do you know what you just did?
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And it's just a dream love, it's just a dream love, what do you know
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Hey pa, I think I'm gonna make it, I'm going away on a one way ticket
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And it's just a dream love, it's just a dream love, steady you go
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Round here those are always sinking, folks will say, Connie, what were you thinking
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He lead the team in High School, he never lost once two years in a row
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Got a scholarship to Iowa and knew that he had to go
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He sent a letter home, to his papa, said, papa, I'm going to the NBA
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But then out of nowhere his name got dropped into a scandal, always someone got to pay
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High flying kid, do you know what you just did?
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It's just a dream love, it's just a dream love, what do you know
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Hey pa, I think I'm gonna make it, I'm going away on a one way ticket
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And it's just a dream love, it's just a dream love, steady you go
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Round here those are always sinking, folks will say, Connie, what were you thinking
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So I got to, got to, got to get going now, pap, there's a detective here from the D#A
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And he's telling me they'll lock me away, if I don't say what he wants me to say
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So to all the kids on the back home lots, I swear it isn't like they say
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The investigators pushed me around, and then I was blackballed by the NBA
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That playground legend, who could dunk when he was eleven, with super natural abilities
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Long before MJ, before the Doctor
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And his Dreams were stolen, stomped on and thrown in, he never got his day in the sun
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And now here lies High Flying Hawkins, the greatest player that never was
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So to all the kids on the back home lots, I swear it isn't like they say
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The investigators pushed me around, and I was blackballed by the NBA
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His dreams were stolen, stomped on and thrown in, he never got his day in the sun
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And now here lies High Flying Hawkins, the greatest player there ever was