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    "Pay Close Attention"genre: Alternative Hip Hop
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    Broken sample style electronic minimalisim with a spin of street poetics.
    CD: Through the Cracks of Concrete   Label: The Beat Bank
    Credits: Produced by Brother El

    Lyrics
    Times so hard when - dogs eat cat food
    and cats don't eat cause cats can't compete
    It's survival on the streets
    A true raw deal, blame it on feel
    The notion to survive
    Hangin on to barely one life left
    I take a deep breath before I climb the pissy stairwell
    The elevator ain't worked in years
    Painted with the tears of a (?) rape victim
    And stud already out of prison
    so I rely, on my night vision and
    watch out for stick-up, or get stuck up
    Change up my routine I mean
    Bull{shit} ain't nothin but a word, keep my ears to the curb
    Brothers screamin bout, "43rd" but that ain't what I heard (yeah)
    Truancy officer in the parkin lot
    Nickname Mr. Spark-a-Lot, high as hell
    Just checkin off names, as parents walk by
    Don't even question that it's strange

    [Chorus]
    I recognize game
    A master, see and don't see
    Hear and don't hear ("you know what I mean")
    .. pay close attention, I recognize game
    A master, see and don't see
    Hear and don't hear ("you know what I mean")

    .. pay close attention

    [Verse Two]
    I feel the millenium come
    And we'll all become, dumb, deaf and blind
    I wrote this rhyme when I was walkin in the damn rain
    Constant pain, inflicted by injustice
    Don't trust this, I know what it feel like
    to be broke, walkin through the alley
    Contemplatin crimes, I'm, about five seconds off it
    Waitin to start it with barely enough change to make
    one phone call, but call who?
    To pull me through the muck (yeah) stomach pains
    Hunger cramps, my brain headaches exaggerated by
    resteraunt displays all day
    And food smells, lie trapped between my nostrils
    I'm feelin hostile, I vow, not to react black
    And act on the basic instinct and will to live
    I got more to give (yeah)
    But the situation at the crib is a trip, I wanna flip
    and change my whole personality
    Cause I can't deal with reality
    .. it's just way too much

    [Chorus]

    Pay close attention, pay close attention

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