Chasing the Sky - Empire Cast/Terrence Howard.mp3

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[00:04.89]Open your eyes to what you love to hate
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[00:10.66]You're up in the sky but you ain't flying straight
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[00:16.48]Where do I go when I can't go home
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[00:22.60]Cause you sold it yeah you lost yourself in you are just no more
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[00:28.52]Take every piece every piece of me
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[00:34.44]Whatever you need my mind is changing
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[00:40.50]And I can't hide no but you know where I'll be
[00:46.30]Mother
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[00:51.02]And I know
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[00:54.09]I said I didn't need it I said I wasn't built for it
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[01:00.09]Well no I can see it damn right I really made it for this
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[01:05.18]Chasing the sky trying to fly
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[01:13.75]And now I see
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[01:17.61]Just why you had to be so hard for me
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[01:23.70]You hear my roar then fill your legacy
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[01:29.34]Here to the sky no choice but to fly so high so high so high
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[01:39.42]Love's supposed to be thicker than water is
[01:41.79]Nowadays we can't even stomach the thought of it
[01:44.57]It's like we can't even get along who right and in the wrong
[01:48.05]Too busy pointing fingers like it's politics
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[01:50.60]I tell you shut up you tell me be quiet too much dysfunction
[01:54.02]Cut up like we at a riot kicking and punching
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[01:57.12]Ain't nobody here for me that ain't
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[01:59.65]And you would think that we wasn't even related
[02:02.19]Why are we even throwing blows in the first place
[02:05.08]We fight at cook outs picnics and birthdays
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[02:08.13]I tried to get a benefit but in the worst case
[02:11.14]You keep on talking smack and end up with a hurt face
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[02:14.77]And we tried everything it's time for plan b
[02:17.53]If bloods and crips can reconcile why can't we
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[02:20.58]I guess I'm ratchet like my mama and my poppa
[02:23.27]I'm chasing the sky and I ain't talking 'bout the vodka let's fly
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[02:29.90]Fly for a blessed man if I turn to lies I guess you never understand
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[02:35.73]A mother and father who wanted for you much more than
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[02:41.45]Life is a slight of hand if you hate it today
[02:44.66]I've a lot for you if there's one thing that it's true
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[02:50.32]Going all alone I can't even trust all the people here inside my home
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[02:59.71]And if you weren't my brothers I'd never let it get so wrong
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[03:05.86]That you turn your back when you turn your back on me
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[03:11.31]On your family no
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[03:15.46]And I know
[03:16.54]Said I know
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[03:18.39]I said I didn't need it I said I wasn't built for it
[03:21.88]I wasn't built for it
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[03:24.11]Well no I can see it damn right I really made it for this
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[03:28.55]I really made it for this
[03:29.83]Chasing the sky trying to fly trying to fly
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[03:37.78]And now I see
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[03:41.67]Just why you had to be so hard for me
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[03:46.29]No hard for me
[03:47.76]You hear my roar then fill your legacy
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[03:53.36]Here to the sky no choice but to fly so high so high so high