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Dreams of a winner

from The world is small by Blink

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1) The beginning of story. I’m in Muritala Muhammad airport in Lagos Nigeria. It’s January 2010 and my mother is escorting me to the airport to catch my flight back to Chicago. She watches me walk through security after I wave good-bye. I board the jet and sit somewhere in coach by the window …Dreams of a winner

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Dreams of a winner

I’m ready for blast off/ meet me at the air port/ hope you got your passport ( x 2)

I’m still dreaming like a winner/ and living like a sinner/
But my blessings are more so I thank the lord for forgiveness/
No need to make wishes when you love how you living/
Appreciate what you getting and you love how you giving/
And I aint just spitting that’s my personal religion/ win lose or draw that’s a personal decision/
I take it if I see it f*ck a permit or permission/ I am moving to the top till its my permanent position/
My minds made up and my time’s saved up/ and everything is true it’s not a rhyme made up/
We are products of our dreams so the grind made us/ hustle 24/7 hoping time pays up/
And when life says down? I say up/ when my competition sleeps my ni*ggas I stay up (stay up)/
They drive I fly and i’ma love how I live till I’m killed or I die/
They aint give me a pass but I destined to score/
iv been knocking on the door but they snored and ignored/
It’s all a dream till they see you on the screen/ front cover of magazine with a neck full of bling/ I got

Hook
(Dreams of a winner (X4) So I go wherever my life takes me so just let me run don’t chase me) X2

I’m ready for blast off/meet me at the air port hope you got your passport)( x 2)
No plane planes tickets but we (fly around the world ) (x 3)

Frequent flier miles citizens of the clouds/ and the world is my city the earth is my hometown/
I’m African and proud but I try to get around/ in fact I’m on a jet taking off right now/
And I’m no del negro but I’m on coach…That’s Bull shit I’m tryna ball like rose/
And I should get a visa for all my clothes…cause being fly is all I know/ I got

Hook

Stuck in between my dreams and reality…I’m 21 right now born and raised in Lagos Nigeria trying to live internationals dreams…and I’m a

Bridge…
Rider, rider, twenty plus young getting wiser, wiser/
Never giving up a surviver, viver/
So put your hands up if you riding, if you riding/ telling you a/

Indeed we shall succeed, cause we believe we shall succeed

Hook…

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from The world is small, released April 8, 2011

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