[Produced by DJ Hot Day, Rodney Jerkins & Salaam Remi]
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[Intro: Nas]
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DJ Hot Day…
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[Chorus: Mary J. Blige]
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This kind of love is a once in a lifetime groove
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Reach out and touch the love that I have for you, aww baby
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I see you standing there
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So lost and all alone
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I wanna take you in my arms
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And tell you that you’re home
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I look into your eyes
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I said I know you very well
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I see a mirror of my life
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A reflection of myself
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[Verse 1: Nas]
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3:45AM, cant sleep, cant dream
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Im stuck, money problems pop up
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How will I survive?
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Guess its best to decide not to decide
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So thats my decision
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Whatever happens happens, I keep making my millions
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Can see myself in Presidential campaign dinners
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But Im passing blunts, around a bunch of gang members
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When youre too hood to be in them Hollywood circles
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And youre too rich to be in that hood that birthed you
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And you become better than legends you thought were the greatest
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And outgrow women you loved and thought you could stay with
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Life become clearer when you wipe down your mirror
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And leave notes around for yourself to remember
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I like to teach and build
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With brothers about how easy it is to reach a mil
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All you need is some skill, then it’s grind time
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“Imagination better than knowledge,” says Einstein
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It’s all in the mind
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Nasty the nicest, Im somewhat of a psychic
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Just one minute after its heard
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You allll recite it, you allll repeat it
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Youll call me a genius, if you didnt
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Now that I said it, I forced you to think it
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Write in my little vignettes, sipping Moët
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Bitch, when you vision me, you vision the best
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When I was young, they called me Olus son
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Now hes Nas father
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I was the good seed, he was the wise gardener
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[Chorus: Mary J. Blige]
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This kind of love is a once in a lifetime groove
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Reach out and touch the love that I have for you, aww baby
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I see you standing there
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So lost and all alone
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I wanna take you in my arms
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And tell you that you’re home
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I look into your eyes
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I said I know you very well
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I see a mirror of my life
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A reflection of myself
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[Verse 2: Nas]
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Yeah, what yall know about this…?
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Yo, beautiful life, often I dream that I can bring my niggas
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Conservatives don’t understand slang linguistics
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The ‘burbs talking like the hood, will change with quickness
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Love the skinny model chicks, but I prefer the thickness
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So what I rap about my riches and Im ostentatious?
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Get out a gangstas business, seems to me your thoughts are basic
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Try to compare what you live to the life I master
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See the fly shit I wear, you try to rock it after
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Big bracelets, golden Egyptian faces
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White wine spritzers and Switzerland on vacation
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The strip club scene favors Josephine Baker
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Dope fiend neighbors
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Growing up, I seen paper
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I describe it, hope you can visualize it
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This is reminiscent to all the parks in the project
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When my British Knights can rival your Foamposites
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Don’t make me pull my Lottos out the closet
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Ha ha ha
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[Chorus: Mary J. Blige]
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This kind of love is a once in a lifetime groove
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Reach out and touch the love that I have for you, aww baby
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I see you standing there
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So lost and all alone
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I wanna take you in my arms
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And tell you that you’re home
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I look into your eyes
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I said I know you very well
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I see a mirror of my life
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A reflection of myself
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[Outro: Mary J. Blige]
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You remind me, ohhhhhhhhhh
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Yes its true, baby, ahh, yeah
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Oh, baby, oh, baby, you remind…
