Speak Life

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    I pray thee, I pray thee      
once again
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I wonder to be surrounded by ones 
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with such talent...
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  you know?

[Refrain]
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Speak life
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    Live a humble and meek life
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  Ordinary day of the week life
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     Try to search and seek life

[Chorus]
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Way up
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   Keep your head up and stay up
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    Even when you sore and pain love
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   Never giving up 'til it's game up
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Keep your aim up

[Verse 1]
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And focus
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    Don't concentrate on what's 
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bogus
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    Never sell out for a bonus
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     Handle your biz like grown up
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   Own up

[Chorus]
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It's amazing
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   The way Jah fire keeps blazing
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    That's why I constantly praise 
him
Continues after the ad
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    For some of them it's a phase 
thing
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So they're gazing

[Verse 2]
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On the street lights
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    'Til dem catch up in street 
fights
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    'Cause are pretending they 
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streetwise
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    And put to end to a brief life
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I feel like

[Chorus]
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It's a mystery
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    How we can keep repeating our 
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history
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Making the same mistakes as our 
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ancestry
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Seems like all of life lessons 
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missed with
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It's risky

[Verse 3]
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So give praises
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   One day you may find your oasis
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   Rise up to the challenge 
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you're faced with
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   Be a pool and creative
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You'll make it

[Chorus]
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It's basics (Wo-Oooah)
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   People been doing it for ages 
(Wo-Oooah)
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   Many other cultures and places 
(Wo-Oooah)
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   On the regular basis (Wo-Oooah)
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They're so many cases

[Verse 4]
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Let's face it (man)
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     Way too much time has been 
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wasted (man)
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   Building military bases
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   Fighting our war with no basis
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[Chorus]
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   Life is sacred (Wo-Oooah)
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   And every baby born naked 
(Wo-Oooah)
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   Some of 'em nah like raise big 
(Wo-Oooah)
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   And don't care what they're 
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making (Wo-Oooah-oh)
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They can't take it

[Refrain]
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So speak life (man)
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    All this darkness don't feel 
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right (man)

[Instrumental]
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Wo-Oooah
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Wo-Oooah-oh
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Wo-Oooah
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Wo-Oooah-ooh

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