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this is a video made by myself and other

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members of the second wave performance

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group we meet regular each week to gain

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acting experience and to share our own

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ideas sometimes we work on our own

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material other times we'll work on

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finished pieces what you're about to see

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our extracts taken from dead proud a

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book written by young women playwrights

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I hope you enjoy the video and that it

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shows you what can be done

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so you come back she want me know after

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she hope and come up me horse you want

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independent so now you got it what you

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want from me now

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I'm Sami child where's my key

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mum this is Mikey Mike easily is a

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good-for-nothing mama this is Mikey

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Mikey and me want independent we want

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independent with Mikey please mom can we

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talk what you want money and I have

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known I know what you want

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she won't come home cause she pregnant

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in it girl you pregnant you want from

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your home mommy no you see them breasts

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a dumpster not two mile she can't look

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me in the eye you spreading that girl I

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know you are free talk please ma'am no

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no you bring me trouble trouble girl

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always trouble is Mike original

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it's my key which you know he chucked me

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out he says he don't want me you know

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want you mum this is my key she says and

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come up with us she can't cook or clean

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you want independent independent

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Tarantino aren't you and so you come

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back you saw all the milk from the

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breast I know you want more when me say

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no you can't have no more you took it

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I'll come up my house you will not

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welcome you hurt me I don't want you in

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my house last night he was angry he hit

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me he says he don't want me it's

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different he's changed my key he got

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what he wanted and no he don't want you

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frightened I don't know what to do

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mom telling me what to do you left here

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like a big woman and your comebacks

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never like a child he won't take

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responsibility well you will have to

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take his responsibility and your

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shoulders and let me tell you something

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you need big strong shoulders for that

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and you not have it so now you want to

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know what to do I told you independence

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is hard you have to fight for it you do

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not learn your back and get it not know

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freedom child but no you heard none of

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it so now all I can say is the ball is

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in your court

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alright now I know feel like playing

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tennis

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she goes murdering I'm late what's the

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time

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Tim posting let him hug got another ten

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minutes yet oh don't go Matt's got to

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stay yeah I can't it's a double s so so

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she'll miss me I gotta go

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boring I don't face it sending it for

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double listen anyway they check the lose

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off the braids you wanna go down to the

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boiler room I've never been down there

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for court last time can I come in

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what for a went gotten a I could

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smell him there's no room Pinocchio I'll

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open the door there's no room there's

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six of us in it

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unless you want to stand in the bar

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there's no room in the end is that you

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Maureen na qui open it does someone

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under on toilet Oh

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let me know let me about this toys elves

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who say we did

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I'll go girlfriend Yosh okay we'll stay

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here

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let's all go then do you want to go down

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to the boiler room then yeah I'll tell

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it to watch the play before you go

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anywhere you have no time needs this to

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spend time with your mother just a weary

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life you hear what time's the internet

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no your mind just let chief like you

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have all the world problems on your head

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where mine is

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when he study should study to pass at

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school is money I study I was 14

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catching up on last year's fashion

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boring my sister stiletto heels and

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pencil skirt or my first bra elasticated

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pink and pointed didn't feel shame to

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take off my vest dinosaur in buff

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changing rooms I followed my sister to

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parties then blues inside hot and dark a

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blazing coal fire ganja burning my eyes

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my sister dance move her fella and me

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stand-in there like a shadow-sm nothing

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made sense then I fought that by

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grown-up fireside find all the answers I

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was naive I had a crush on my sister's

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boyfriend friend he was nice-looking

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reminded me of a black version of Clint

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Eastwood

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Cole he said that I looked 18 so I told

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him that I was I couldn't talk about it

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to anyone made love for the first time

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at my sister Joy's party when everybody

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had gone home Eddie left early before I

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woke up I knew then that there'd been no

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time to worry whether he loved me or not

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didn't think you'd come

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sorry to say I'll talk about this child

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isn't he's nothing to talk about

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so I searched half the night for me not

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true love alone I'm pregnant

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look don't get heated up sister what you

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expect

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me neither nothing wrong you know may

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have misspelled lyric to vote for me Lea

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I was there when you tell me your age

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thinks I would mess with a school girl

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spoil my image look go home girl go home

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your mother will never know just go home

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I forgetting the whole team

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I was feeling sick all the time thrown

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away my studies it panicked me I just

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couldn't think straight I tried to

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figure out the best way to tell mum I

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fought about it over and over I signed

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the papers

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it hurts signing I needed to talk to

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someone but there was no one who could

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have possibly understood so I kept my

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secret anyway to change their minds that

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can do it yeah give me five just cause I

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don't want no world guy yeah when we get

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excited feel good you topless I think

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we're gonna find that when we catch them

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they must fit we hate each other guy

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just your comments yeah yeah were you

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gonna do with me I'm gonna take the

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first slow boat to jam down beautiful to

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make don't be stupid what you're gonna

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do

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I'm not sure that I'm leaving yet well

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after today you're joking it yeah well

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you stand on for all of us is leaving so

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we were all born together well pardon me

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for breathing you're not a well

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depressive guy I think I might try

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University University a slow boats to

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make us earn sweets me cool sounds

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subtle alcohol meet a nice guy through

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lucky if you're lucky you know would

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have to be what are you gonna do Mex

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I'm not sure there's so much to do tell

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me about it

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maybe an artist I can't draw you suck

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Tommy I can drop all Monsieur I would

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like to draw your outline why not yeah

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but that means going to college

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don't let this place or the people hold

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you back too many black people get

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caught in that trap I want to go further

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yeah my mum reckons that as you get

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older that gets always there there all

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the time oh yeah tell me about it

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what does that say not if once black has

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to play the fool listen yeah I'm gonna

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do for me she tall fella fashion what

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about you pair

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no I ain't getting involved with no guy

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that uses me though it's true not the

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way life so art you live life already it

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means you know well Eve there's hope for

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you after all you said like an old wise

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woman to me funny ok you two keep it

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down what it says two salads two peeps

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and I suppose your jars I'm personal

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lawyer yeah you got an answer for

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everything yeah hey mom on record all

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the good men have gone in their

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generations then wear them day but go

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look for them now when I was really

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little I wanted a toy Fran I wanted one

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so badly I pestered me mum and dad to

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give me one for Christmas they couldn't

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afford it and told me not to be so

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selfish but I couldn't stop I cried

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because all the other girls in the

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estate had won on Christmas Eve I went

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to bed thinking I wasn't going to get

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one but secretly hoping still I woke up

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at 5 the next morning it was really dark

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I couldn't see properly so I stuck out

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my hand to feel for my presence I was

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rummaging around when I touched

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something like a metal bar I knew it

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inside I knew it I switched on the light

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and there it was a bright yellow pram

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well it weren't exactly what I wanted

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but I didn't care I was dead proud and

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you know what I found out later my dad

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got off the back of a lorry what a joke

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watch you're sure to watch this

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I'm not turning a flirty I'm trying to

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listen to my records a while it's a real

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music nope style

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why don't we only carry almond on our

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white people for the neighbor its music

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miss merry music and them love it love

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what how anybody could unlock that they

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banged around I'm always bumming

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underwire when we start Miss Mary stop

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your foolishness boy that's it music

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won't bring down the price a madhouse if

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you don't watch your step

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hello Miss Mary mom's gone shopping she

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can't buy a pair of shoes shoes again

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but don't certainly last much by noob

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ampere I can't understand how one

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somebody need so much shoes I don't tell

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her she can wear a top foot bottom

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before she went a montage shoe she have

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any way Church having convention on

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Saturday and I would call her if she

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interested now Miss Mary style what

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you're talking about picnic we're not

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talking boot ancho's is Jesus Christ in

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heaven me talk emote miss Mira I think

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so surely me say mummy were witnessed a

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bit more life before she give it your

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job over witness she's going to a club

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on Saturday anyway club but then

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lettings not for young people wanting to

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blossom in our or leage she carries her

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old bones no she don't know it's time to

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protect the hand of the Lord

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mommy said the best place to rest our

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bones is inside a satin cuff him with

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two birds and cattle up on our chest so

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she said she no no that said when she

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dead it will be too late that she need

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to take the hand of the Lord before him

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Carla to the judgment get call him

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blossom rickets

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call him blossom rickets you have two

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minutes to get to judgment get Liat

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commas will be disqualifies you guan boy

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is a serious thing this no no we know

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when a good light going out the light

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and because none we know we must be

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prepared long time before drop

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everything and follow the way of the

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Lord

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you see you you could be resting in your

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bed it could be sitting on the toilet

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seat you could be putting up Christmas

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tree it could be washing your foot but

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um you could be buying to ponder tribe

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you could even be stand up here talking

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to me strong strong

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um the man out every blessed light in

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your body

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no man you must always be prepared this

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to me let me soak kids ready pack up

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underneath my bed with new clothes why

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them don't have clothes shopping hello

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Miss Mary Cheryl are you doing the

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school run child the Lord know how you

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go I need all the level you can get what

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level you doing no well I'll just scrape

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for my old levels and now I'm doing my

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a-levels but I'm getting stuck on the O

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level part of course mm-hmm here level

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and/or level yes that's what I did tink

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I lied you what you do with yourself in

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boy not much don't stand in front of me

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and telling me say you doing nothing

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much what you doing with your under eye

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itself now you take upon yourself elite

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school making music traffic turning a

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superstar making music me back foot if

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you did stop talking be the bad English

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call me head and fling but the France is

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hot I'm sure you'd find work next time I

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call me I want piercing you're working

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in here in the bar yes miss Mary

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anything you Sammy smear

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phylidia each one

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