People Like Me-K'naan

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[00:00.00]People Like Me - K'naan
[00:13.39]Heaven is there a chance that you could come down
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[00:19.13]And open doors to hurting people like me
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[00:24.54]People like me
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[00:36.97]Is it fair to say that I am stressing out
[00:39.78]I'm stationed in Iraq and they won't let me out
[00:42.70]My homeys said I was stupid for even joining
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[00:45.88]My counselor said that my decision was disappointing
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[00:48.93]How she had good for good state colleges
[00:51.82]And with my good grades it wouldn't have been a problem
[00:55.16]But they don't understand the power of significance
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[00:58.15]More than brilliance and certainly more than difference
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[01:01.19]And if you ask me now would I repeat it
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[01:03.96]Would I fight in a war I don't believe in
[01:06.85]Well the answer is if not me where the cancer is
[01:10.44]They been doing this before Jesus of Nazareth
[01:12.88]And after all this time it is still deadly hazardous
[01:16.06]And bush isn't really being all that inaccurate
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[01:19.20]When he says we're winning the war cos it's staggering
[01:22.34]But that's cause we're killing everybody that we see
[01:25.10]And most of us soldiers we can barely fall asleep
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[01:28.05]And time and time again I'm feeling incompetent
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[01:30.90]Cos my women back home we're constantly arguing
[01:33.86]And I must be crazy cos all I'm obsessing with is
[01:37.01]Her Myspace and Facebook and who's commenting
[01:39.82]I swear to god if she's cheatin' I'm doing her a** in
[01:42.79]I can tell with one look and it came to me
[01:45.42]Sounding like something from a song hook
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[01:49.44]Heaven is there a chance that you could come down
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[01:55.04]And open doors to hurting people like me
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[02:12.92]Meet Sarah the proud mother of young Sebastian
[02:16.11]Suburban professional went to college in shton
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[02:19.19]In self pity she suddenly cried
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[02:22.00]Would my life be important if I suddenly died
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[02:25.00]Neighbors saying what a nice women she was
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[02:27.70]Keeping mostly to herself ever since the divorce
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[02:30.99]And with the company downsizing and the fall and all
[02:34.08]She really shouldn't take it that personal at all
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[02:37.14]It wasn't her boss who had his eyes on her thighs
[02:40.07]And got a rise from her rising off the desk though
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[02:43.06]And despite remembering saying no plenty of times
[02:46.03]It was still a damn surprise being let go
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[02:48.83]And now stuck with a mortgage she can't afford
[02:51.79]And too educated to blame the corporate world
[02:54.81]She got on welfare and hated it case work a power tripping
[02:58.52]And generally being degraded if
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[03:01.07]Nothing else she was treated sick
[03:02.99]And ineffective which is the worst thing
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[03:05.99]That she'd been left with
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[03:08.24]Damn no magic from David Blane
[03:11.45]No painter to pain this pain
[03:12.73]No Morgan Freeman to narrate the shame
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[03:15.79]So she took refuge and prayer
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[03:17.97]Kinda like finding god in the phone book
[03:20.60]And it came to her sounding something like a song hook
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[03:25.08]Heaven is there a chance that you could come down
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[03:31.09]And open doors to hurting people like me
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[03:36.46]People like me
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[03:49.24]I guess I told you about myself to a degree
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[03:52.25]Just by telling you about people like me
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[03:55.13]But people like me they speak politely
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[03:57.95]They don't start no beef or peace why me
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[04:01.06]Everybody gotta eat but everybody doesn't
[04:03.81]Which is why I want to tell you about my favorite cousin
[04:07.04]He and I grew up where the sun shines
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[04:09.95]And we both partook with the gun crimes
[04:12.91]And we both liked American rap rhymes
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[04:15.88]Even though we didn't understand one line
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[04:18.80]If you remember my line of notes in my last album
[04:21.81]I talked about a close call with a grenade
[04:24.77]I think we both must have been about 7th grade
[04:27.79]But don't panic we both survived without damage
[04:30.81]But we developed a bond like we survived the titanic
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[04:33.76]But when the country became frantic
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[04:35.54]My mother tried to get us out planned it
[04:37.93]To the last detail except the plan got derailed
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[04:41.40]Cos there wasn't enough money for the plain tickets
[04:44.39]How bitter when my mother had to chose who to take with her
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[04:48.08]So my cousin got left in the war and that's just hard to recall
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[04:52.88]But now I take refuge and prayer
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[04:55.16]Kinda like finding god in the phone book
[04:57.79]It came to me sounding kinda like something from a song hook
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[05:01.40]Heaven is there a chance that you could come down
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[05:06.97]And open doors to hurting people like me
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[05:25.38]Heaven is there a chance that you could come down
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[05:31.22]And open doors to hurting people like me
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