First things first, Ima say all the words inside my head
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Im fired up and tired of the way that things have been, oh-ooh
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The way that things have been, oh-ooh
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[Verse 2]
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Second things second, dont you tell me what you think that I could be
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Im the one at the sail, Im the master of my sea, oh-ooh
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The master of my sea, oh-ooh
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[Pre-Chorus]
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I was broken from a young age, taking my sulkin to the masses
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Writing my poems for the few that look at me, took to me, shook at me, feelin me
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Singing from heartache from the pain, taking my message from the veins
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Speaking my lesson from the brain, seeing the beauty through the
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[Chorus]
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Pain! You made me a, you made me a believer, believer
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Pain! You break me down, you build me up, believer, believer
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Pain! Oh, let the bullets fly, oh, let them rain
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My life, my love, my drive, it came from
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Pain! You made me a, you made me a believer, believer
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[Verse 3]
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Third things third, send a prayer to the ones up above
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All the hate that youve heard has turned your spirit to a dove, oh-ooh
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Your spirit up above, oh-ooh
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[Pre-Chorus]
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I was chokin in the crowd, building my rain up in the cloud
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Falling like ashes to the ground, hoping my feelings, they would drown
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But they never did, ever lived, ebbin and flowin
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Inhibited, limited til it broke open and rained down
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It rained down like
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[Chorus]
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Pain! You made me a, you made me a believer, believer
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Pain! You break me down, you build me up, believer, believer
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Pain! Oh, let the bullets fly, oh, let them rain
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My life, my love, my drive, it came from
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Pain! You made me a, you made me a believer, believer
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[Verse 4]
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Last things last, by the grace of the fire and the flames
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Youre the face of the future, the blood in my veins, oh-ooh
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The blood in my veins, oh-ooh
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[Pre-Chorus]
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But they never did, ever lived, ebbin and flowin
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Inhibited, limited til it broke open and rained down
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It rained down like
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[Chorus]
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Pain! You made me a, you made me a believer, believer
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Pain! You break me down, you build me up, believer, believer
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Pain! Oh, let the bullets fly, oh, let them rain
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My life, my love, my drive, it came from
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Pain! You made me a, you made me a believer, believer