Maria (feat. Andrea Bocelli, Wyclef Jean)

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[00:15.06] Ave Maria, I hold on to my rosary
[00:17.23] We come and go like we leaves
[00:18.66] As it was written, shall it be done
[00:20.62] I was born in the Croix-des-Bouquets slums
[00:22.45] Light a candle, it's my birthday
[00:24.15] No velvet, just a dirt cake
[00:25.98] Cemetery was my play pen
[00:28.07] Come meet my imaginary friends
[00:29.66] My daddy, he Haitian like Basquiat father
[00:31.67] So every time I write, I'm paintin' a picture
[00:33.36] Some family took a boat to get to Brooklyn
[00:35.52] But they never made it, I cried me a ocean
[00:37.22] I went from boys to men overnight
[00:39.05] So hard to say goodbye on a flight
[00:40.84] Two twins look like God pillars
[00:42.78] First time seen the skyscraper
[00:44.55] Tall woman with a big torch
[00:46.39] Welcome to Liberty, New York
[00:48.12] God city with the devil's alley
[00:49.98] Keep the crucifixion 'cause the demon on me
[00:51.73] Headed to the projects where we made it
[00:54.08] We don't gotta walk to the well
[00:55.25] Got a faucet, a toilet, a bed, and a sheet
[00:56.93] Crowd around a oven just for the heat
[00:59.87] Though life could be bittersweet
[01:01.47] I'm Kool G with the symphony
[01:02.95] Best friend standin' next to me
[01:04.77] Soul shift, watch him quantum leap
[01:06.56] Mikhael with the angels
[01:08.75] Deep sleep like he Michael
[01:10.46] Never knew he was mental
[01:11.62] 'Til the Joker put one in de Niro, yeah
[01:13.89] Things change, stay the same
[01:15.94] Stand still as the Earth spins
[01:17.95] Cold world, codeine
[01:19.64] Prom queen, prom fiend
[01:21.68] She leans, party girl
[01:23.43] Wake up in the underworld
[01:24.92] In the City of Angels
[01:27.34] Demons, lovers
[01:29.00] Killers, sinners
[01:31.08] Tell me who you are
[01:42.27] Uh, uh, mm
[01:50.22] Uh, Ave Maria, hold on to my rosary
[01:52.43] I'm keepin' it close to me
[01:54.02] Workin' my sorcery
[01:55.21] I need love like Courtney, most importantly
[01:57.39] Santa Maria, got blood on my rosary
[01:59.61] But that's how it's supposed to be
[02:00.73] Birth of a culture
[02:01.97] I walk outta the delivery room with blood all over me
[02:03.95] I love you, Miss Cita, like Mother Theresa
[02:06.22] And every time I pray, I never forget her
[02:07.82] My daddy a heathen, he beat on my mama
[02:09.58] So every time I see her face, I kiss it
[02:11.39] They love you this evenin', they hate you mañana
[02:12.90] Can't nothin' come between me and money but commas
[02:14.63] I don't need the drama, you don't need the violence
[02:16.36] Highway to heaven, I'm callin' the driver
[02:18.06] I went from boys to men overnight
[02:19.89] Now ask all these boys who the prototype
[02:21.52] I light up some weddin' cake, smoke a slice
[02:23.29] Got all this weddin' cake with no wife
[02:24.89] Light a candle, it's my birthday
[02:26.86] No party, it's a workday
[02:28.53] Gotta work harder, that's the cliché
[02:30.13] And there's no tomorrow, said that yesterday
[02:31.64] And though life can be bittersweet
[02:33.47] No company for the misery
[02:35.15] I just light me an L'y and cut on Bocelli
[02:37.00] Like take me straight to Sicily
[02:38.48] Feelin' free like a bird
[02:40.44] No words, Kenny G
[02:42.16] Never knew I was mental
[02:43.50] 'Til I shot myself unaccidentally
[02:45.37] But things change, stay the same
[02:47.18] Stand still as the Earth spins
[02:48.91] Cold world, ice cream
[02:50.77] Prom queen, prom fiend
[02:52.30] She leans, party girl
[02:54.05] Wake up in the underworld
[02:55.44] In the City of Angels
[02:57.45] Demons, lovers
[02:59.17] Beginners, finishers
[03:00.97] Tell me who you are
[03:04.44] Uh-uh, uh-uh
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