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RA King Speaks: "Naked"
People judge my actions without first considering my afflictions,
Defenseless in a jungle with half my parentage missing,
No scripts to follow, and no coach led,
Mama tried to beat me right, now I'm violent bred,
Match that with the violence going on outside,
I took it as love, my oath was to ride,
Now bare as I stare with nothing left to prove,
I can finally be myself, they know what I'll do,
Now I don't care about them, it's about US,
But did I wait too late, and miss that bus?
Who can I trust? Most my friends are dead, or dead to me,
All my old girls copped skates and rolled out with the next G,
No more girls for me, it's now a woman I seek,
But who wants to be with someone as crazy as me?
I don't even have the decency to lie about who I am,
The audacity of me not to sugarcoat or run a sham,
The nerve of me maintaining regardless of everyone else,
Having the sense to know that no one knows where
I've been but self.
So I learned myself, naked, baring all to the mirror,
Reflecting on what got me here, trial and error,
How did I survive when so many of my kind passed,
No longer do I live in fear, I've removed my mask.
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