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Why can't we be friends (4x)

I've seen you 'round for a long long time
I remembered you when you drank my wine

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I've seen you walking down in Chinatown
I called you but you could not look around

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I paid my money to the welfare line
I see you standing in it every time

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The color of your skin don't matter to me
As long as we can live in harmony

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I'd kind of like to be the President
So I can show you how your money's spent

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Sometimes I don't speak right
But yet I know what I'm talking about

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I know you're working for the CIA
They wouldn't have you in the Mafi-A.

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