Musiq - Womanopoly lyrics

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Yo listen<br />

I met this girl on Baltic Ave.<br />

And you can tell how she steps on boardwalk,<br />

She was park place<br />

I asked what she was doing on this side of town<br />

She said she had some taxes to pay<br />

I figure I'd take a chance and advance to go<br />

And find out more about<br />

Cause there more to know than the way she ways<br />

And the way that she wears her clothes,<br />

Or the way she plays this game (so cold)<br />

She said she came up rough <br />

And one income was not enough<br />

There'd be nights she'd go to sleep hungry<br />

Cause her mom was always short on food and money<br />

See people used to joke a lot<br />

Tease her bout her clothes not being in style<br />

Dressed in dingy skirts and dirty sneakers<br />

From the finest second hand down Oriental Ave.<br />

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But now look at her<br />

She got this game on lock<br />

Anything she ever wanted now she got it<br />

And I've gotta say<br />

And I'm proud to see<br />

That someone like her is in central<br />

Womanopoly<br />

Once she graduated junior high she started working overtime<br />

Scrubbing floors or working on assembly lines<br />

Just so she could help her mother out and<br />

After college they moved into Marvin Gardens<br />

And she got a job working at the city water department<br />

To raise enough cash<br />

In move into community chest condos on Pennsylvania Ave<br />

She fell in love with this dude named ray<br />

Who was a small time hustler from St. Charles place<br />

And he was known for always bein in and out of trouble<br />

But the problem was that he was never on her level<br />

She argued with her mom about ray's work<br />

Til he was sent upstate on the same day that she gave birth<br />

But see the baby never made it, it drove her nearly crazy<br />

And she couldn't take it<br />

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(Listen) see where she came from<br />

Many people find it hard just to hang on<br />

You often find them in the same place complaining<br />

Instead of finding a better way of maintain<br />

She could have balled up and cry<br />

Wished that she would die<br />

And just gave up on tryin<br />

Instead she grind from the bottom<br />

Just to make it to the bottom now she's flying<br />

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