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[00:00.83]Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing
[00:01.78]Nothing you could do
[00:03.67](Straight up)
[00:04.55]There's nothing you could do
[00:06.49](Not a boy says)
[00:07.33]There's nothing you could do
[00:08.18](I want to know why you want tot play with it)
[00:10.06]There's nothing you could do
[00:10.95]They say he's a radical, he don't fit the game
[00:14.53]A heart full of glory and a fist of pain
[00:17.25]A couple of battle scars but shit's the same
[00:19.95]Are you not entertained?
[00:21.80]So all the onlookers and the bystanders
[00:24.56]Wait till intermission, run buy your camera
[00:27.27]Record the moment 'cause it'll be platinum
[00:29.01]And you could say you seen
[00:31.78]Common rock the stadium with Gladiator
[00:32.65]I was told by a wise old to come from the heart
[00:34.41]Though I might've did The Light, I don't run from the dark
[00:37.23]The dark knight to spark mics and start fights
[00:38.81]The warrior archetype like Kimbo Slice
[00:41.57]It's strength in the beard, am I loved or feared?
[00:44.29]A beast amongst boys like Paul I'm revered
[00:47.09]Vroof, vroof, vroof, vroof, vroof, vroof
[00:49.79]Well, like Jacob Jewel, I keep clientele
[00:52.42]You frail on the mic like you might break a nail
[00:55.13]I might smoke a joint but I won't take the L
[00:56.98]I knew a fat girl who broke the scale
[00:59.65]Still touched down 'cause I was off Artell
[01:02.44]Had dreams of breaking Mike Vick out of jail
[01:05.10]Took the underground rail to the end that failed
[01:06.99]I rebel, NYSL, here to leave a trail like Nelson Mandela
[01:12.32]There's nothing you could do
[01:16.08](Man, why you want to go against me?)
[01:16.95]There's nothing you could do
[01:17.83](You sing where I fall)
[01:19.61]There's nothing you could do
[01:20.52](You sing what I do)
[01:21.50]There's nothing you could do
[01:22.47]They say he's a radical, he don't fit the game
[01:25.15]A heart full of glory and a fist of pain
[01:27.84]A couple of battle scars but shit's the same
[01:30.51]Are you not entertained?
[01:32.35]So all the onlookers and the bystanders
[01:35.00]Wait till intermission, run buy your camera
[01:37.88]Record the moment 'cause it'll be platinum
[01:40.56]And you could say you seen Common rock the stadium
[01:43.28]My words is the sword, my skill is the shield
[01:45.04]My life is the style, I stay dressed to kill
[01:47.78]A legend like Will Smith with the steel
[01:50.42]I could save the world when shit get for real
[01:53.25]Skinny George Foreman, all in your grill
[01:55.06]My rhyme style is blind, it's all in the feel
[01:57.71]Touch it and watch the blood fall with the steel
[02:00.55]The weak raps you wrote you could call that your will
[02:03.25]My drive, vroom, is how I stay the livest
[02:05.93]Your guys got you gassed, my flow is a hybrid
[02:08.68]Crashed I survived it, gashes over eyelids
[02:10.44]You easy to take out 'cause you hot garbage
[02:13.29]I'm amped like wattage, the truth nigga honest
[02:15.93]Any moment opponents drop out like college
[02:17.75]Kneel and pay homage to the rap Ziggy Stardust
[02:20.48]Stadium hands in the air fists balled up
[02:23.25]There's nothing you could do
[02:25.03](You know what it is)
[02:25.93]There's nothing you could do
[02:27.88](The boys rock)
[02:28.75]There's nothing you could do
[02:30.55](So who next?)
[02:31.47]There's nothing you could do
[02:32.32]They say he's a radical, he don't fit the game
[02:35.91]A heart full of glory and a fist of pain
[02:38.61]A couple of battle scars but shit's the same
[02:42.34]Are you not entertained?
[02:43.26]So all the onlookers and the bystanders
[02:46.02]Wait till intermission, run buy your camera
[02:48.72]Record the moment 'cause it'll be platinum
[02:51.53]And you could say you seen
[02:53.31]Common rock the stadium, the gladiator
[02:54.27]Feet in the dirt, blood on the shirt
[02:56.42]Scars over bars, symbols of the work
[02:58.23]Tight clothes the armor, center of the drama
[03:00.93]Defeat your whole army like this is Sparta
[03:03.68]So don't violate or you'll get violated
[03:06.45]Some of you model bitches is so overrated
[03:08.29]Don't mean to underrate it but damn it, I made it
[03:10.94]In the water I waded, on the corner I painted
[03:13.79]Draw blood like we related
[03:15.57]MCs get de-decapitated
[03:17.38]Syncopated is the style that I fight with, write with
[03:20.08]Mr. Excitement, change your face up
[03:23.70]Like a white chick then light shit
[03:24.73]Up like a dread with the herbs
[03:26.57]Get sex in the city and head in the burbs
[03:29.36]These are the words of a radical
[03:31.16]The crowd applaud, I'm bowed, I'm proud to be the gladiator
[03:34.71]There's nothing you could do
[03:35.64](How could you even question this?)
[03:37.42]There's nothing you could do
[03:38.37](Now you know)
[03:40.21]There's nothing you could do
[03:43.85](The future)
[03:44.78]There's nothing you could do
[03:45.63]They say he's a radical, he don't fit the game
[03:47.49]A heart full of glory and a fist of pain
[03:49.25]A couple of battle scars but shit's the same
[03:52.86]Are you not entertained?
[03:53.71]So all the onlookers and the bystanders
[03:56.58]Wait till intermission, run buy your camera
[03:59.07]Record the moment 'cause it'll be platinum
[04:02.39]And you could say you seen
[04:04.11]Common rock the stadium with Gladiator
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