[00:00.00]Merry Go Round - Royce da 5'9"
[00:00.85]I have tried in vein
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[00:02.39]Never had success
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[00:05.08]So it seems my life is nothing but a mess
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[00:10.83]I have lost my only friends
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[00:16.35]Now it seems I have to start again
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[00:21.31]MERRY GO ROUND
[00:22.87]My lifes been going around 'n' round since '95
[00:25.24]Went from going where about to die
[00:26.90]Went from callin' my chick a chicken cause she look like she got poultry
[00:29.29]Around her thighs
[00:30.37]To callin' your piece a chicken cause she got no teeth and she got crow
[00:32.72]Feet around her eyes
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[00:34.03]How hard are y'all I got a heart the size of Arkansas
[00:36.44]Count to five these birds gon' hit the ground and they ain't from out the
[00:39.04]Sky
[00:39.30]Went from havin' an outta-this-world-flow to doin' the pity or doin' the
[00:42.04]Coon dance
[00:42.68]To watchin' my good friend Eminem winnin' a moonman
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[00:44.76]I remember cause I was in New York
[00:46.44]With all of my boys to start sh*t
[00:47.51]Lettin' 'em stay with me long story short they tore my corporate
[00:49.86]Apartment
[00:50.37]Went from bein a kid addicted to basketball
[00:52.28]To bein an ignorent ni**a addicted to alcohol
[00:54.65]
[00:55.94]Round and round we go is how this movie would end
[00:57.74]Self-proclaimed King of my city not really just truely the King of losin'
[01:00.85]A friend
[01:01.34]Who would've thought this goof in the park whos true to his ark would lose
[01:03.90]Or win just by givin' his thoughts 'n' views
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[01:06.93]I have tried in vein
[01:08.08]
[01:08.99]Never had success
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[01:11.61]So it seems my life is nothing but a mess
[01:15.55]
[01:17.35]I have lost my only friends
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[01:22.96]Now it seems I have to start again
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[01:27.81]MERRY GO ROUND
[01:29.53]You would hear that Ryan's skilled
[01:30.81]Might even hear Ryan kills
[01:32.16]You will never hear Ryan Stiles
[01:33.64]Here to put the I in I'll
[01:34.89]My mind is still
[01:35.95]Like a merry-go-round spill
[01:37.27]Like leavin' only guns to my kids when I'm killed
[01:39.48]I got an iron will
[01:40.53]Intellect as ion I went from high on pills
[01:42.64]To triumph to hidin' from bills to buyin buildin's
[01:45.27]Then I went from writin' for Dre
[01:46.54]To wonderin' if my head was on straight on the sidelines
[01:48.79]Feelin' I forgot about listenin' to Forgot About Dre
[01:51.53]From there I went to about a bottle a day
[01:53.51]Tellin' who we know Get outta my face okay I know what Kino said about
[01:56.46]Dre
[01:56.99]I look at Kino to this day like that was a stupid mistake
[01:59.47]But if it wasn't for him doing that what would I be doing today
[02:02.48]If it wasn't for Cashis sayin' that he gonna beat my a**
[02:04.77]Then me and Em prob'ly wouldn't be laughing about us gettin past it
[02:08.20]If it wasn't for me bein outcasted I woulda never been on the underground
[02:12.01]Rappin wit SLAUGHTERHOUSE
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[02:13.39]I have tried in vein
[02:14.75]
[02:15.63]Never had success
[02:17.30]
[02:18.13]So it seems my life is nothing but a mess
[02:22.23]
[02:23.91]I have lost my only friends
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[02:29.43]Now it seems I have to start again
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[02:34.43]MERRY GO ROUND