who would steal on sunday?who’d made them believe make-believe?who’d buy a prayer when you can pray for free?if the way you held your coffee was the way you looked at me,then i could take both my hands off the tv. i’ve been sleeping on half of my bed lately,and thinking […]
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Somebody Put Something In My Drink
Somebody Somebody put something in my drink Somebody Another night out on the streets Stopping for my usual seats Oh, bartender, please Tanqueray & tonic’s my favorite drink I don’t like anything colored pink That just stinks…it’s not for me It feels like Somebody put something Somebody put something in […]
Continue ReadingElection Night
Come around for tea Dance me round and round the kitchenBy the light of my T.VOn the night of the electionAncient stars will fall into the seaAnd the ocean floor sings her sympathy Drive me miles awayEscape the sky that we lay underOf all the dreams we cannot shakeWe’re always […]
Continue ReadingLand Of The Free
Somewhere in the desert of the voidBeyond the wallWe’re the last survivorsWe’re the ones who’ll never fallMen inside the circle leave the night!Darkness all around usNot a single beam of lightAll we have is our faithWaiting for the fightThe time has come to break the outer wall Grab your heart […]
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Somebody tell me who’s that, what’s thatIt’s the man with the silk drawers stuck up his buttcrackDon’t even front and try to ask who is thiscause my name rings more bells than a Jehovah WitnessStronger than Listerine, moppin up rappers like Mr. CleanOh Lord, the Kane just hit the sceneBooyaka […]
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Even on a day like this when you’re crawling on the floorReaching for the phone to ring anyone who knows you anymoreIt’s all right to make mistakesyou’re only humanInside everybody’s hiding something Staring at the same four walls, have you tried to help yourselfThe rings around your eyes they don’t […]
Continue ReadingDrown
No matter where you areI can still hear you when you drownYou’ve traveled very farJust to see you I’ll come aroundWhen I’m downAll of those yesterdaysComing around No matter where you areI can still hear you when you dream You traveled very farYou traveled far, like a starAnd you areAll […]
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everywhere I look I seeexclusive huddleduninviting shelteris privilegeof the same and competentkerosene keeps me warmI’m alone to watch it burnkeroseneexposure is a pitifuland pointless way of dyingbefore it gets meI’ll set a funeral pyrekerosene keeps me warmI’m alone to watch it burnkerosenei’m a man andmy dignity won’t waveTonight buildings rage!kerosene […]
Continue ReadingShow Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely
Show me the meaning of being lonelySo many words for the broken heartIt’s hard to see in a crimson loveSo hard to breatheWalk with me, and maybeNights of light so soon becomeWild and free I could feel the sunYour every wish will be done They tell me… Chorus:Show me the […]
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My mental stability reaches it’s bitter endAnd all mt senses are coming ungluedIs there any cure for this diseaseSomeone called loveNot as long as there are girls like you Everything she does questions my mental healthIt makes me loose controlI just can’t trust myself If someone can hear me slap […]
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[Verse 1:]Yo yall niggaz wit the muscle yall get clapped in the tussleI’mma hustler, not a rapper bitch, rap is my hustleShow a nigga know yo, we the 1st teen millionaires in Harlemsince rich and poor, you don’t know, get to knowAin’t takin shit to left, Jimmy Jones rock and […]
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Verse One: Nas My stripes show like regiments, military intelligenceMurder game, I leave no evidence — credentialsGo ask my pre-school, even talk to my old principalHe’d tell you how you I used to pack a No. 2 pencilStabbin students, grabbin teachers, Catholics, preachersIn the school staircase, cuttin class, passin my […]
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everybody shake ittime to be free amongst yourselvesyour mama told you to be discreetand keep your freak to yourselfbut your mama lied to you all this timeshe knows as well as you and Iyou’ve got to express what is taboo in youand share your freak with the rest of uscause […]
Continue ReadingDon’t Fence Me In
Wildcat Kelley, lookin’ mighty pale,Was standin’ by the sherrif’s sideAnd when the sherrif said "I’m sendin you to jail,Wildcat raised his head and cried Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above,Don’t fence me in.Let me ride through the wide open country that I love,Don’t fence me […]
Continue ReadingIt’s A Beautiful Thing
Sonny went and flipped away and said he had to go How could you ever say he never stayed alone And how could I belong with anyone you know Come on every line’s a line I’ll never know Oh……it’s a beautiful thingOh……it’s a beautiful thing Sometimes I can get along […]
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