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Built-In Best Friend

Big sis! (Hey!)

Baby bro! (Hey!)

Fight all day! (All day!)

Still won’t let you go! (Won’t let you go!)

Blood line! (Blood line!)

Same soul! (Same soul!)

Love you, dummy! (Dummy!)

That’s how we roll!

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I was the oldest, thought I ran the house

You was the baby with the biggest mouth

Always in my room touching my stuff

Break it, blame it — boy you was rough

Mama said “Watch him,” I’d kiss my teeth

But you was right there stuck to me

Acting like you wasn’t scared at night

Still crawled in my bed when they cut the lights

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Backyard days, dirt on our jeans

Making big dreams at thirteen

You’d dare me first, I’d call your bluff

Electric fence — yeah we was tough

You’d jump back yelling, I’d laugh too hard

Five minutes later, back in the yard

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I was the oldest sister, you was the baby

Crazy how you still my favorite maybe

Love-hate vibe but it’s ride-or-die

Say I’m done — but that’s a lie

We fight, we clown, we prank nonstop

Hide your keys, switch your lock

But if the world ever steps to you

They gotta see me coming too

Ooooh — built-in best friend

Ooooh — with me till the end

Ooooh — ain’t nobody else

Know me like you know me

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Daddy’s delivery truck, hot outside

We saw that back seat like dollar signs

Cases stacked up, we had a scheme

Two little bosses chasing a dream

You said, “Sis, we finna be rich!”

Till you told everybody — couldn’t resist

Ruined our hustle in one whole day

Couldn’t keep a secret to save your pay

We got caught, had to sit real still

Tried not to laugh through that whole ordeal

Even grounded, side by side

You my partner in every crime

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From scraped up knees to grown-up scars

You seen who I was before it got hard

You know the tears I never show

You knew my heart before it broke

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I was the oldest sister, you was the baby

Still get on my nerves but you still save me

Love-hate bond, yeah that’s our thing

You my headache and my king

We fight, we clown, we prank nonstop

But nobody else get this spot

If I lose my way somehow

You the one that pulls me out

Ooooh — built-in best friend

Ooooh — with me till the end

Ooooh — ain’t nobody else

Love me like you love me

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Now we grown and the world feel cold

Life moved fast, we both got older

But when I hear your laugh on the phone

I swear I don’t feel alone

You remember who I was

Before the hurt, before the love

Before the nights I cried myself to sleep

You were there — you saw all of me

Even when we drift apart

You still got the map to my heart

No matter how far life sends

You my first and forever friend

You know me…

You really know me…

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I was the oldest sister, you was the baby

From backyard dares to acting crazy

From little bad plans in daddy’s truck

To growing up when life got tough

Love-hate bond but it won’t bend

You my bloodline, my built-in friend

If I had to choose this life again

I’d still choose you — again and again

Oooo