Emancipation (edited) Lyrics - 1996

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Big white mansion
Top of the road
Latest fashion
Happy, don't u know?
Here i am in new york, yeah
See the girl bold and fair ("yo, anita!") {martin sample}
What's in your backpack 2day?
Will it take my blues away?
That's ok, "u gotta run..."
Huh, check it, i don't need u 2 have some fun
Comin' from the land of snow
I guess i'm kinda used 2 cold

But one day i'll have a big white mansion
At the top of the road
I'm gonna wear the latest fashion
I'm gonna be happy, don't u know?

I could use a new guitar
Sing a tune at chazz' bar
Maybe meet a debutante
Be a toy, do what she want (tell me what u wanna do?)
9 o'clock, see john k.
"but u don't rock, come another day" (when?)
Come another day
Spirit so low reachin' up 4 ground (reachin' up 4 ground)
One day i'm gonna make it in this lonely town

Then i'll live in a big white mansion
At the top of the road
I'm gonna wear the latest fashion
Then i'll be happy, don't u know?

Hey there, what's your name? (what's your name, cutie?)
And can u tell me how 2 play the game? ("i am a winner") (listen 2 this)
Do i really have 2 cut my hair? (no)
Now, that's a cross i could never bear (how 'bout them publishing rights?)
Sell my publishing? what a laugh! (ha ha)
I don't know bo, but i do know math (i do know math)
Back 2 minneapolis, there u go
U can't find your house underneath the snow

Cuz u're livin' in a big white mansion (oh yes)
At the top of the road
U're wearin' the latest fashion
Tryin' 2 be happy, don't u know? (tryin' 2 be happy, happy)

Big white, big white mansion (big white mansion)
At the top of the road
U and me wearin' versace, gucci (latest fashion)
Hoochies, they all wanna do me (happy, don't u know?)
But am i really happy?
Big white mansion
Yeah, maybe one day

("yo, anita!") {martin sample}
("yo, check out that ass!")