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Artist: Royce Da 5'9" f/ Melanie Rutherford
Album:  Book of Ryan
Song:   Amazing
Typed by: Nickolye16@aol.com 

[Intro: Royce Da 5'9"]
(Ryan!) I am not tryna be in this store all day
Y'all can play the game one time
Let me go get change for a dollar real quick
Hey my man what's up, you got change for a dollar?
What's up man? You don't remember me, do you? (Ryan!)

[Royce Da 5'9"]
I remember you, I remember you definitely
I remember you took my basketball and wouldn't give it back
cause I dribbled it inside your store, but I was just messin with you
Plus that was my lucky ball, my Dad got it signed by Isaiah Thomas so I kept it with me
Everywhere I went I used to bounce that ball
Everywhere I used to go I used bounce that, bounce that ball
I'm little Ryan from 16650 Baylis
Remember me? I used to buy all the mystery mix Now and Laters
I used to wait for God to come down and answer all of my prayers

[Chorus: Melanie Rutherford]
Never ask for much when I sit down and say my prayers
All I ever ever wanted was to be amazing (Ryan!)

[Royce Da 5'9"]
Same little ol' boy used to walk to the corner store
Who used to get the Funyun chips, who ended up dumb, young and rich
I had young parents but they both were strict
I had a superstitious granddad - wait, scratch that, crazy granddad
I seen him turn his hat around three times
Drive his car around the corner three times in reverse
Just cause he crossed paths with a black cat
Man, you remember Hank?
He used to be a Jitney at the market, my Mom used to do his laundry
He used to have me and my brothers dyin laughin at him
Talkin 'bout, "You know you can't leave them clothes in the washin machine too long
when they get done washin, and still put 'em in the dryer
Doin that makes the clothes stink!"
Damn, being back here bring back so many memories
You sure you don't remember me? You remember the ball? (Ryan!)
Everywhere I went I used to bounce that ball
Everywhere I used to go I used to bounce that, bounce that ball
Nigga e'rybody know little Ryan from 17150 Northlawn
I used to come and cop pork rinds
I used to watch drug dealers come through in cars like, "If I get one of those, it's showtime"

[Chorus]

[Interlude: Melanie Rutherford]
Is that Ryan?
It is always good to see him in the neighborhood
Hey baby! How your momma?
Look at that car, he done done it
I told y'all he was gon' do somethin (Ryan!)
Hell yeah (hell yeah) hell yeah (hell yeah)
Hell yeah (hell yeah) hey, hey hey, hey, hey
Hell yeah (hell yeah) hell yeah (hell yeah)
Hell yeah (hell yeah) hey, hey hey, hey, hey (Ryan!)

[Royce Da 5'9"]
Wow, this is overwhelmin
It feels like it was just yesterday I was watchin "Good Times", wishin I could get ahold of Thelma	
Fightin with my brother over channels, I like watchin movies, he likes stupid shit
like Robin Williams goin, "Nanu nanu" or whatever that stupid-ass show called
I ain't around here bein no attention whore
I need niggaz to look at these whips, for every time we got those extension cords
God, I miss my big brother so much, he went to prison so much
that I don't think I recognize him these days much
But I'ma always know what to get him from the ice cream truck
He used to get the Push-up Pops, I used to get the snow cone
I used to wanna be just like Turbo, he used to wanna be Ozone
I got all the kids wavin at me, all the elderly off they high horse
They wouldn't even let a nigga play twenty-one in the driveway, nowadays the ball is in the my court
(Ryan!) Everywhere I went I used to bounce that ball
Everywhere I used to go I used bounce that ball
Everybody goin, "Ain't that, little Ryan from over there on Marlow?
I ain't seen him since he was a baby"
Well I'm back in town to let the people know that you don't need no lucky ball, you already amazing
And I'm still your neighbor
Little ol' Ryan (Ryan!)

[Melanie Rutherford]
And God bless the child
No matter how long it seems somehow he'll find his way home
It's so important baby
Between the memories and family I don't know which one is more amazing

[Chorus]