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[Chorus: Pras Michel]

He who fights, runs away, lives to fight, ohhhhh

Another day, some would say, one monkey don't stop a show

He who fights, runs away, lives to fight, ohhhhh

Or he'll fight, one more day, one monkey don't stop a show



[Pras Michel]

Aiyyo the ghetto's red hot, hotter than the summer day

Goin on a quest to the thick Milky Way

Walk many miles like my man Isaac Hayes

Wheel up, wheel up, don't start the gunplay

Easy with the feezy let the boy down easy

Keep the hands clean so I won't get the greasy

Believe me moms said there'd be days like this

Where they'll, spit in your face and, take a piss

Betray the son of man with a, double kiss

But you a shootin star and you'll, never miss

Cause life ones big road with lots of signs

So when you ridin through them rocks don't complicate your mind

And I have learned, every rose has a thorn

And every cowboy sings a sad sad song

And the playback's long and you may lay back long

But if you don't watch your back 'til November you'll be gone



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[Pras Michel]

Aiyyo ambush in the night, guns pointed at me

Square me off, dey open fire on me

But Lord knows one monkey won't stop the show

Six feet under, baby kissed me from head to toe

Can't keep a good man down, y'all know how the story goes

I suppose there's no difference between friend or foe

My nigga Frank Sneed said what's known need not be said

I'm a man on the run and they all want me dead

Monkeys on my back with a bounty on my head

But I got nuttin but love homey, let's break some bread

You see I been accused, of many a-things

Like the real hip-hop and the fame it brings

Respected, I'm connected

From the bottom to the top of the food chain

I'm real bank money, mentally you're loose change

I do thangs; while y'all get tied up like shoestrings



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[Pras Michel]

Sometimes I feel like my vision's, been distorted

And my cry for help, has been prerecorded

Lord don't abandon me to the will of my foes

When the time comes, only you know my highs and lows

So help me surf over all my daily troubles

Cause yesterday seems so far away in bubbles

I pray to you Lord, and ask for forgiveness

Even when my heart is hard and the soul is restless

See I love few, and I can't trust none

So this time around I'ma load up the guns

Hope my enemies don't become, prisoners of war

Cause my gangster is mean and I'm back for an encore

I'ma take what's mine and give nothin back

When I move with my niggaz I'm the leader of the pack

Feet, please don't, fail me now

I'm on a journey, and I gotta cover these grounds



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