Singer: Hamilton
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Song: Wrote My Way Out
Hamilton - Wrote My Way Out Lyrics (LRC Advanced) (04:09-249-0-en) (PARTIAL PREVIEW)
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[00:09.70]I wrote my way out
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[00:11.80]When the world turned its back on me
[00:14.40]I was up against the wall
[00:16.80]I had no foundation
[00:19.00]No friends and no family to catch my fall
[00:21.90]Running on empty, with nothing left in me but doubt
[00:26.50]I picked up a pen
[00:28.10]And wrote my way out (I wrote my way out)
[00:29.30]I picked up the pen like Hamilton
[00:31.50]Street analyst, now I write words that try to channel 'em
[00:34.40]No political power, just lyrical power
[00:37.30]Sittin' on a crate on a corner, sippin' for hours
[00:40.00]Schemin' on a come up, from evening'to sun up
[00:42.50]My man awaitin' trial, misdemeanors we younger
[00:45.20]Courtroom prejudice, insufficient evidence
[00:47.90]Jailhouse lawyers, these images still relevant
[00:50.70]Flickerin' lights inside my project hall
[00:52.90]Sickenin', the mice crawl all night long
[00:55.20]And '87 Reaganism, many pages I've written on
[00:58.10]Writin' songs about rights and wrongs and bails bonds
[01:01.10]Master bedroom, bigger than the crib that I was raised at
[01:03.90]I'm the architect like I wrote the code to Waze app
[01:06.50]I'm driven, black Elohim from the streets of Queens
[01:09.60]The definition of what It Was Written means
[01:12.30]Know what I mean?
[01:13.80]I wrote my way out
[01:15.70]When the world turned its back on me
[01:18.40]I was up against the wall
[01:20.80]I had no foundation
[01:22.90]No friends and no family to catch my fall
[01:26.00]Running on empty, there was nothing left in me but doubt
[01:30.70]I picked up a pen
[01:32.00]And I wrote my way out (I wrote my way out)
[01:33.80]I really wrote my way up out of 6E
[01:35.90]Develop relationships with fiends, I know they miss me
[01:38.50]Before the metrocards, it was tokens, I did the ten speed
[01:41.20]Never had wrote a rhyme in my life, what was a sixteen?
[01:43.80]At sixteen, arrested in housin', trips to the mountains
[01:46.30]Came right back, trappin' off couches, watchin' for mouses
[01:49.00]Only tools we was posed with, had a spot, smoke lit
[01:51.80]The hate is just confusion, pay attention how them jokes switch
[01:54.60]Diadora was my favorite, the Mark Buchanans
[01:57.00]Mama couldn't afford them, I learned everythin' on the border
[01:59.70]That's a big 8, Clicquot parties with private dancers with no mixtape
[02:03.40]Bumble Bee Tuna, now we could get steak
[02:05.30]I persevered, composition, I kept it close
[02:07.70]Competition near, I'm a Spartan without the spear
[02:10.40]Three hundred rhymes, it was written before I wrote it
[02:13.20]Opportunity knockin', might miss it, that window closin'
[02:15.90]This poetry in motion, I'm a poet
[02:17.70]I wrote my way out
[02:19.70]When the world turned its back on me
[02:22.30]I was up against the wall
[02:24.80]I had no foundation
[02:27.00]No friends and no family to catch my fall
[02:29.90]Running on empty, there was nothing left in me but doubt
[02:34.60]I picked up a pen
[02:36.10]And wrote my way out (I wrote my way out)
[02:37.30]High speed, dubbin' these rhymes in my dual cassette deck
[02:39.90]Runnin' out of time like I'm Jonathan Larson's rent check
[02:42.50]My mind is where the wild things are, Maurice Sendak
[02:45.10]In withdrawal, I want it all, please give me that pen back
[02:47.80]Y'all, I caught my first beatin' from the other kids when I was caught readin'
[02:51.30]"Oh, you think you smart? B...........
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