I met the Count of Tuscany...Across the open countryside...I love the way I feel uptight...Winding through the hills...Want to stay alive...This could be the last time you see me alive...Knew it from the moment we arrived...hen viewing through the past...A saint behind the altar...Down the cellar stairs...Like the angel's share...The end is near...All the finest wines...Want to stay alive...This could be the last time you see me alive...Knew it from the moment we arrived...Could this be the end?...Is this the way I die?...You must be confused...The chapel and the Sade...The soldiers in the wine...The fables and the tales...Go and tell the world my story...The Count of Tuscany

The smile of dawn arriv...The night shed a tear t...Death is the first dance, eterna...The both of you will be...I was told if you dream of the next world...Deceit is the second without end...The city's cold blood t...n my eyes and we'll stay alive...The third arrives...Before the leaves have fallen...Before we lock the doors...There must be the third and last danc...When the struggle between...Now the miracle and the...Sleeper know that the third is love...Love is the dance of Eternity

From the beginning of time ...Like the wind on the sea like the sun on the sand ...We've had a dream in our hearts ...That gives us the courage to try ...We must have a song that sa...We must reach for the sky ...We are the daughters of time ...And the sisters of a new da...Born in the labor of love ...And the promise of tomorrow...We are the children of light a...We are here to stay ...The suns and the daughters of time ...Over the water so wide ...at sails on through the sky ...We know the way to be the best we can be ...And look life in the eye ...We are the daughters of time ...And the sisters of a new da...Born in the labor of love ...And the promise of tomorrow...We are the children of light a...We are here to stay ...The suns and the daughters of time ...Just like the lady in the harbor shining brig...Giving her hope in the darkest of the nightJ ...ust like the lady in the harbor standing tal...We're on our way to the stars ...ill survive and our dream is alive of a better day ...Turning away from the past ...We are the daughters of time ...And the sisters of a new da...Born in the labor of love ...And the promise of tomorrow...We are the children of light a...We are here to stay ...The suns and the daughters of time

What the fuck? Shit.. ...The whole house on fire...The curtains and the walls all indulged ...reak full speed to the back door one room...But the faster and harder I ran it seemed like the longer I took ...I gotta get to the back do', gotta get to the kitchen ...ck smoke comin from the kitchen ...Stay my ass here and burn or -- RUN THE FUCK THROUGH? ...ed up shit but this the worst I ever been i..." -- tell them send the fire engine ...Runnin through the fire, and I can't t... had my eyes closed the whole time ...I smashed through the back door like a ra...Out the house but still I g...tarted goin wild on the ground tryin to get the flames out my shirt...Windmillin in the dirt, but nuttin di...See I live right by the river -- THAT'S IT,...e hot footprints in the tar ...Runnin over cars to the 12th Ward wall ...Get out the way cause everythin...I'ma be at the riverfront, tell th...Hello? Somebody get the fuckin fire off me!...e aluminum foil, in the microwave oven ...Don't you see the smoke? Can't you hear the cracklin? ...need your help, I'm the one on fire!" ...But the shit don't seem to ...Damn this must have been a bad dream the whole ? ...ss they finally got the people to me, they must have saw me ... just been put out, the fire went away!"

o, first I snatched the streets then I snatched the charts...I've been here from the start...Seen the rovers roll up wit ...It's the most consistent, Ho...Give you the most hits you can f...At the tender age of 6 she was arrested for the sit in...t to Jacob's and to the dealership...ey don't want me in the damn club...But in the land where niggas p...gotta thank you for the way that she was br...miling when you see the car I bought her...can't complain what the accident did to my ... Aaliyah, now Romeo must die...ls watchin' me from the other side...hat you're apart of the math...I expose my soul to the globe; the world...ain't what gives me the heart of Kunta Kint...If I were on the highest cliff, on the highest riff... if you slipped off the side and clinched o...y breath is felt by the death...ard and confined to the ears of the blind...I too dream in color and in rhy...Built the ROC from a pebble, ...Somebody must have caught him 'ca...More of them on the way, the 8th wonder on the way...Clear the way, I'm here to stay...Y'all can save the chitter chat, this ...Young, the archbishop, the Pope John Paul of y...Hov and Hov's still alive

o, first I snatched the streets then I snatched the charts...I've been here from the start...Seen the rovers roll up wit ...It's the most consistent, Ho...Give you the most hits you can f...At the tender age of 6 she was arrested for the sit in...t to Jacob's and to the dealership...ey don't want me in the damn club...But in the land where niggas p...gotta thank you for the way that she was br...miling when you see the car I bought her...can't complain what the accident did to my ... Aaliyah, now Romeo must die...ls watchin' me from the other side...hat you're apart of the math...I expose my soul to the globe; the world...ain't what gives me the heart of Kunta Kint...If I were on the highest cliff, on the highest riff... if you slipped off the side and clinched o...y breath is felt by the death...ard and confined to the ears of the blind...I too dream in color and in rhy...Built the ROC from a pebble, ...Somebody must have caught him 'ca...More of them on the way, the 8th wonder on the way...Clear the way, I'm here to stay...Y'all can save the chitter chat, this ...Young, the archbishop, the Pope John Paul of y...Hov and Hov's still alive

Too many nights I stay wondering about thi... clutching at every dream ...ngs get better than the way they seem ...hat this love is on the run ...o to keep this love alive ... clutching at every dream ...ngs get better than the way it seems ...elf this love is on the run ...So what must I do to keep this love alive

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Stay with me forever (sh...Keep my dream alive (keep my dream alive)...(Touch with me the sky) There's got to be the reason...You must come along, everywh

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Stay with me forever (sh...Keep my dream alive (keep my dream alive) ...(Touch with me the sky) There's got to be the reason ...You must come along, everywh

Is the city I live in, is ...Cause it's the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K ...L-Y-N is the place where I stay ...The B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K ...Best in the world and all USA ...It's the B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K ...L-Y-N is the place where I stay ...The B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K ...Watch the world go by and my ...I think about the time past and the time to come ...to try and come, to the neighborhood functi... a younging, before the days of thugging ...I must proceed at God's sp...Livin the now space and time, round the nine to five ...Walk the streets like a swee...Bring the marty to your face ...I'm from the slums that created the bass that thump bac...unt that, recurring dream of high stakes ...The fourth largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the place ...Settled by the judge many years ag...it back, reflect on the place that I live a...The home of big gats, d...Where you go to get the fresh trim at ...Four on the Jake got the Timb rack ...ou get caught, rode the white horse and can...Out of towners take the train, plane and bu...Must be something that t...From the treeline blocks to the tenements ...To the Mom & Pop local sho...Travel all around the world in great dist...That's why we it The Planet ...From "sun" to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens ... night out in front The Himalaya goin wild ...The nighties, and all m...rties, forties, and the fifties ...The cats out in Starite...To the Hook, to the East, to the Stuy ...rooklyn my habitat, the place where it happ...Live sway and the sharp balance of the battle axe ...It's where you find the news tool crew came...The crack babies trying...It's off the handle black, wit b...The type of place where... who know where all the hot 'lo gear is at ...The stomping grounds, w...The doorstep where the dispossessed posted...Cause once the young guns notice t...et it snatched like the local tax ...The place I sharpen up ...Where one of the greatest MC's was a

re themes that fill the screen ...re are looks I wear the theater should have...The matinee must end by five ...And I must stagger out into the blinding sunlight half alive ... I were back inside the picture show ...Notice how the screen is wide ...The second role I've sa...Find the world like nothing ...As we walk from out the movie ...Does the orchestra play chor...On the screen? ... expectations are a dream I can't avoid ...ng for a man to say the things ...That I heard in the film last night ...oesn't want to play the role ...Oh let the movie end...

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Is the city I live in, is ...Cause it's the B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K...L-Y-N is the place where I stay...The B-the-R-the-O-the-O-K...Best in the world and all USA...It's the B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K...L-Y-N is the place where I stay...The B-to-the-R-the-O-the-O-K...Watch the world go by and my ...I think about the time past and the time to come...to try and come, to the neighborhood functi... a younging, before the days of thugging...I must proceed at God's sp...Livin the now space and time, round the nine to five...Walk the streets like a swee...Bring the marty to your face ...I'm from the slums that created the bass that thump bac...unt that, recurring dream of high stakes...The fourth largest, first artist, Brooklyn is the place...Settled by the judge many years ag...it back, reflect on the place that I live a...The home of big gats, d...Where you go to get the fresh trim at...Four on the Jake got the Timb rack...ou get caught, rode the white horse and can...Out of towners take the train, plane and bu...Must be something that t...From the treeline blocks to the tenements...To the Mom & Pop local sho...Travel all around the world in great dist...That's why we it The Planet...From "sun" to the ? to the Lafayette Gardens... night out in front The Himalaya goin wild...The nighties, and all m...rties, forties, and the fifties...The cats out in Starite...To the Hook, to the East, to the Stuy...rooklyn my habitat, the place where it happ...Live sway and the sharp balance of the battle axe...It's where you find the news tool crew came...The crack babies trying...It's off the handle black, wit b...The type of place where... who know where all the hot 'lo gear is at...The stomping grounds, w...The doorstep where the dispossessed posted...Cause once the young guns notice t...et it snatched like the local tax...The place I sharpen up ...Where one of the greatest MC's was a