Clarity Levine – Nala’s Pride [Video]

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Clarity Levine, performing at WoWPS 2020 in Dallas, TX.

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i love telling the story of how i found
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simba
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i was just pouncing around minding my
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own fur
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and here come his majestic ass looking
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good
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grown man all luxurious
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he made me feel like a cub again i got
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to nuzzling all over him
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gazing deep into his eyes under the moon
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lighting all that corny [ __ ]
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so i started talking to him about him
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coming back right
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he started talking like he didn’t forgot
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where the [ __ ] he came from and i
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shouldn’t have been surprised
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male mammals always been good for roman
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turning their back on you when they see
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something that requires less effort in
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the opposite direction i’m like simba
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you know we thought you was dead right
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you know we’ve been mourning your ass i
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was just comforting zazu
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remembering you finally sarabi sobbing
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on the side of me then lost her king
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and her prince i wonder how she feel if
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she could see you now
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see how you rose yourself from the dead
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just to steal
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be dead to us i wish i buried you
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called forth the stampede saw to it that
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your body got trampled for real this
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time because dan simba
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felt worthy of my respect it’s funny how
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when you was lying down that’s when it
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felt like you stood for something
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what you standing for now simba looking
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real
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wobbly on your paws to me looking real
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tale between your legs you cowering in
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fear you cowardly lying you kidding
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look at your goofy ass overheating water
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bugs like even lost your goddamn mind
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mufasabita slapped you in the face right
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about now
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rafiki should have threw you off that
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cliff before you got a chance to
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disappoint all of us
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disappoint me it was me and you simba
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the strongest voices win could carry i
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was all the backup you needed and i hear
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you go
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having these three-part harmony lip sync
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sessions with meerkats
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and warthogs it’s cold cause timon and
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pumbaa can have your stinking ass
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you ain’t looking too much like king no
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way more like peasant
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pauper squire knave jester speaking of
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things that ain’t like they used to be
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let me tell you about the home you left
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behind how your uncle gifted us a new
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world and now we fight for scraps
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alongside savages the home you left was
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one with colors it felt like you took
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all the colors which you all we got is
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blacks and grays now simba
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i left him behind to sit in the mess he
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made and like anyone who realizes what
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they lost them are returned right
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scar is gone so we all heal the color is
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back the king
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is back to pride feels like order is
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restored they all blissful and [ __ ] i
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ain’t blissful
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cause how can i rest easy not knowing if
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i’m gonna wake up to some new tragedy
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how i know he ain’t gonna hakuna matata
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his ass the [ __ ] up out of here again
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i close my eyes when i drink cause i
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can’t face my reflection in the stream i
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can’t stomach
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what i have become a dead thing
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desperately clinging to the circle of
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life a lioness
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distrustful of lions a queen with no
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faith in her king it still feels like
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famine here
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there is always rumbling in my belly i
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hoard meat until it rots fearing the
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feeling of not
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having but still during all this
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i still love telling the story of how i
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found simba
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it’s a good story a story of hope a
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story of the last time i had
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hope was the last time i knew the
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feeling of having
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something to look forward to
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[Music]
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[Applause]

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