you were my teacher not too many reached the kid
but you did
in a way that I will always be grateful for
not talkin' ABCs and 1,2,3,4s
I'm talkin' understand what it takes to be a man and more
that if I set my mind to it
I can and I soar
your assurance gives me endurance
times when I can take no more
I think back to the track me runnin' long distance
through shin splints torn ligaments
I still finished
then I think back to the class
either I was cuttin', high, maybe focused on some ass
but alas I still passed flyin' colors
I got a funny way of gettin' there
but this brotha's gettin' there
one way or the other
from the gutter to the butter yeah now i'm on a roll
but I won't forget what got me here I thought that you should know

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you run across the mind from time to time
pushin' forward but sometimes rewind to push it back
you don't know where you're goin if you don't know where you been
you won't find me forgettin' my past
I learn from that so
I find myself thinkin' of you
from time to time you run across the mind and I wonder
do you find yourself thinkin of me
it's you and i just it's you and i blessed

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perpetually single
ever-ready to mingle
spit that game at every dame they were the same until I met YOU
you're something different
couldn't put my finger on it but reasoning be damned
i just know that i want it
first relationship, first true love
yeah it's you love and now that I done grew up
i realized my mistakes
i realized it's too late
to reconcile cause i heard you plan to walk down the aisle with my replacement
you should accept no imitations
and i would preach that to the the choir on that day up at your congregation
but i heard if you love let it go this is me bein patient
see i am waitin' for you to say the word
and ditch the herb and come back quit playin
but if that day ain't
in the card I won't consider it a loss appreciatin'
the time we shared you're part of my education
I learn from my past if we weren't meant to last
i will move past that
these wounds'll heal with the time
but from time to time I might go back into my mind and reminisce

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although we mostly play it out of sight out of mind
on our respective grinds, grind till we're out of time
I, you know I wouldn't have it any other way
and we don't have to see each other every other day
or every week, or even every year
all you gotta do is say the words i'll be right there
that's word bond
see that's the shit we been on since day 1, 2, 3, and to the 4
and those beers got poured
those joints got lit
a couple lines got cut
lost a couple boys to that shit
young and stupid
but grew with passin' days and everyday a glass is raised to their memory
i put em in the rhymes and they'll live on through me
others tell their story they'll live on through them
and we'll have a smile have a cry every time they're mentioned
but keep em in the diction so we don't forget em
no matter where we go we'll always be connected
no place like home
Michigan born and bred don't forget it
won't let it leave the memory
so from time to time my mind is focused on my family in the D and that's REAL

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