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It's The Game Of Life. Do I Win Or Do I Lose? One Day They're Gonna Shut The Game Down. I Gotta Have As Much Fun And Go Around The Board As Many Times As I Can Before It's My Turn To Leave.

After A Long Day Of Trying, To Make My Songs Pay, Making Love All Day Against The Wall In The Hallway.

It Was Tough Sitting In Jail Listening To Jay Leno And Rush Limbaugh And Everybody Making Jokes About Me Getting Shot. And Watching The Media Report All Kinds Of Lies About Me, Like That I Got Raped In Jail. That Never Happened. But At Least While I Was Locked Down, All The Inmates Gave Me Props Encouragement, And So Did Lots Of Mothers And Kids, Who Wrote Me Letters Of Support.

I Don't Want To Be A Role Model. I Just Want To Be Someone Who Says, This Is Who I Am, This Is What I Do, I Say What's On My Mind.

I Got Love For My Brother But We Can Never Go Nowhere Unless We Share With Each Other.