Heart-Shaped Box

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With the cards in my heart you can't call the bluff,
I'm workin hard on my part, still starvin... What,
can you say about a person when thats all he does?
I'm OJ with the verse and leave a wall of blood.
You can't say I'm not determined, you can call the bluff.
Music's like churches to all of us.
Problems will surface in all of us.
So come out with your purpose and a start a fuss.
And I might not know the people you do,
or hang in crowds you might expect me to.
So please excuse this, my need to do this
trumps all else so I pump the music.
And I'm not just here to blow my own horn
And I'm not just here to make my money
I'm just here cuz a heart don't fit in a box
and that's what you can't take from me.
Take a turn like your blinker's on.
From the burn and learn to forget the storm.
Whether you're curds or serbs, rooks, kings or pawns.
You deserve to get hurt for the things you fought... yup, yup
For the things you sought,
You deserve to be certain in the things there are
You can serve to a sermon to pimp your car
Long as you determine the things too far
I can make like a raven and watch,
All the fakes as I prey on the flock.
I'm in a place I can say what I want
All within this heart shaped box...
All within this heart shaped box
This is livin' the right verse, writin' to live. Where...
fit'n in the finish is the name of the biz.ness.
Heart's the reason I don't give up and quit.
Its all to stop me from not givin' a shit. So...
I play the hand thats been handed to me. Got...
to hold it down or I can't set it free. Not...
gonna sound like the next emcee,
rest in peace,
you see the crest within me, yah
Tim McGraw's ...?
Singin' songs 'bout my life and my girl in the bar.
In the middle of a song I got the world in my palm.
And I eat it bit by bit, 'til I...? Yeah
More spit than the mouth of a dog,
on the couch with a ball, chillin after the haul.
Yo an anthill to most is a mountain to crawl.
Cuz us Americans will never get outta our cars
Here's proof of a pulse,
A movement a cause.
A room with a view for you to view all.
He's got troops in the gulf while we cruise in our cars.
Little loops like a belt, there we go, here we are
This is grass roots for fast food
and I just can't think at the take of a spot.
So whether I make it or not
I'm gonna take up space in this heart shaped box
I can make like a raven and watch,
All the fakes as I prey on the flock.
I'm in a place I can say what I want
All within this heart shaped box
Not afraid to play the hand that I got,
When I'm facin' a straight on the flop.
Go against the grain, claim ya spot,
All within this heart shaped box...
All within this heart shaped box
Never did I once think,
that life amounts to one thing,
but when you die, it's one thing
that turns your life into nothing.
And lookin' back on the past through the rear defrost.
Never thought I would last so I peered across.
And now with? in the clear, now the fear is lost.
Cuz what's happenin' here is the beat of hearts.
So, until somethings proven I'm losing,
faith in whatever they're doing.
Won't take two steps in the movement,
if my two cents is useless.
What's bent can't bent in my juices.
Not content with the trends in my music.
Got my pen that's my friend and I move it.
To make sense outta all the confusion.
Yea, we need to start a revolution.
Dedicated to makin' major improvements.
Dedicated to flaggin' fakers as foolish.
Dedicated to takin' down the rulers.
Dedicated to seein' through illusions.
Dedicated to beein' who you is.
Dedicated to makin' the new blueprints.
That are forever depicted as trueness.
I can make like a raven and watch,
All the fakes as I prey on the flock.
I'm in a place I can say what I want
All within this heart shaped box
Not afraid to play the hand that I got,
When I'm facin' a straight on the flop.
Go against the grain, claim ya spot,
All within this heart shaped box...
All within this heart shaped box