Castle Walls - T.I./Christina Aguilera.mp3

[00:00.59]Everyone thinks that I have it all
[00:03.71]But it's so empty living behind these castle walls
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[00:10.45]These castle walls
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[00:14.47]If I should tumble if I should fall
[00:17.81]Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls
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[00:23.80]There's no-one here at all' behind these castle walls
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[00:41.33]Observing the estate through the gate from the outside looking in
[00:45.41]Bet you would think I got it made' better look again
[00:48.23]I got buttler' got a maid' and a mansion
[00:50.84]The belief is that I'm living out a millionaires fantasy
[00:53.49]With pantoms and ferrari's in the driveway
[00:56.19]But you see the pain and the change of the same man's
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[01:00.11]Your vision jaded by the grammy's on the mantelpiece
[01:02.98]Just switch your camera lenses you would see the agony
[01:05.85]Apparantly it's damaging the man you see before you
[01:08.59]On the canvas he may seem alright but all the diasadvantages his family
[01:12.23]Encounters overpowers his extravagance
[01:14.23]Walk in my I dare you
[01:15.94]While it really seem like the kings life aint glamourous
[01:20.81]As seen through the eyes of untrained amateurs
[01:23.74]Because the camera's don't see beyond the walls of the smiles
[01:26.93]Only counts until it falls in the pile
[01:28.86]Everyone thinks that I have it all
[01:31.67]But it's so empty living behind these castle walls
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[01:37.25]These castle walls
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[01:40.45]If I should tumble if I should fall
[01:43.52]Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls
[01:48.45]There's no-one here at all' behind these castle walls
[01:53.57]Honestly to me' I think I'd lose every benefit of all that I've accomplished
[01:57.44]If my key is never with it' sh-t
[01:59.68]Me knowing this' why should the verses I have laid
[02:02.12]Be more important to me than the persons I have raised
[02:05.05]I guess I'm saying that to say that ooportunity
[02:07.98]But they just don't equate to all the time they take away
[02:10.62]From the kids all the sh-t I did right is a mistake
[02:13.50]If deyjah end up a stripper and major slinging yay
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[02:17.10]How could I ever consider myself a great
[02:19.72]If messiah ain't paid and nique nique ain't straight
[02:22.65]Would your favourite song about the whips' money and sh-t
[02:25.29]Be relevant if you found out' the money wasn't real' nope
[02:29.86]So me being the goat shouldn't mean more to me
[02:33.06]Than see it to a king though
[02:34.75]From a bad a** kid to man with some dough
[02:37.24]Otherwise I may well have stayed poor
[02:39.75]So while they stay focused on me beefin with flip'Shawty low'
[02:42.45]Gucci or ludacrisOr if I'm f-cking with a hoe
[02:45.89]Did I snitch when I got arrested or will I die over nonesense
[02:49.50]Internally I'm dealing with this conflict
[02:51.81]So excuse me if I don't get the chance to kiss the hand
[02:55.18]Or slap me in the face' ay I' m just the man
[02:58.12]If they saying I ain't the best at making hit records
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[03:01.34]It's cause this my life these ain't just rapping
[03:03.92]Sh-t' you think of that deep' did ya dawg
[03:06.62]See you can't see the castle through the walls till it falls
[03:09.88]b***h ain't thinking with the deep' did ya dog
[03:13.07]Cause see you can't see the castle through the walls till it falls
[03:15.82]Everyone thinks that I have it all
[03:18.31]But it's so empty living behind these castle walls
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[03:23.88]These castle walls
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[03:27.12]If I should tumble if I should fall
[03:30.17]Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls
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[03:35.10]There's no-one here at all' behind these castle walls
[03:40.23]Nobody knows I'm all alone
[03:42.50]Living in this castle made of stone
[03:45.51]They say that money is freedom but I feel trapped inside it all
[03:50.95]And while I sit so high up on a throne
[03:54.34]I wonder how I can feel this low
[03:57.27]On top of the world it's beautiful
[04:00.08]But there's no place to fall
[04:02.63]For the record ay' I give a damn if I never said shit again
[04:06.25]My career was meant for me to come and tell it
[04:08.87]Honest interpretation of how affected I'm faced with
[04:12.18]Matters most rappers used to keep locked away in the basement
[04:15.24]The day that I walk I ain't saying that I'm amazing
[04:18.05]Down playing the way I keep fellas from catching cases
[04:20.93]Won't take into consideration how much it mean what I'm saying
[04:23.96]And when I say what I mean even when I'm sorrounded by the fakers
[04:27.08]From one of the greatest centers' blessed with most of god's graces
[04:30.26]Who made his way amongst the greatest from the grimiest places
[04:33.06]So next time you rating royalty' I'm always being given to recordings than the level
[04:38.30]Of your loyalty' obvious you've been ignoring me
[04:41.24]Who else ya seen make it through the storm' unharmed disjointed
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[04:45.32]While all the critics was looking for prince charming
[04:47.82]Disregarded the king of the south raised doubt
[04:50.44]Even though he made a castle out of used to be a house
[04:53.50]He did sh-t that all your favourites rappers only rap about
[04:56.51]But most of y'all don't see the castle through the walls
[04:59.65]And the smiles till it falls in piles so while...
[05:01.97]Everyone thinks that I have it all
[05:04.90]But it's so empty living behind these castle walls
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[05:10.54]These castle walls
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[05:13.90]If I should tumble if I should fall
[05:17.09]Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls
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[05:21.76]There's no-one here at all' behind these castle walls