Track 01 – Intro/ Change the World
Track 02 – Same Day
Track 03 – War Song
Track 04 – Paid 4 Love
Track 05 – What do you Need me 4
Track 06 – Pass the Buck
Track 07 – Dance 2 My Poetry
Track 08 – Still a Star
Track 09 – Mr. Newspaper man
Track 10 – NEW DAY
Track 10 – Things Will Look Up

I’m not sure you realize what your about to witness
He’ll tell you what’s on his mind more importantly he’ll tell you what’s in his heart
You can clearly see he has a dream
There’s just something about this young man
You can hear the pain in his voice…There’s hope there
He thinks he can change the world, He thinks he can change the world
You are now entering the mind of

REFLECT

Now who does he think he is, too this too that/ you won’t make it, tuff nut to crack/ wrong side of the tracks, you can’t change the globe/ no, or so I’ve been told/ I got so many goals, I had to put it on hold/ see I took a few blows, and I was tempted to fold/ I got so many goals, I had to put them on hold/ I took a few blows and I was tempted to fold/ I chose to follow my soul, since ten I’ve been grown/ when pops left me alone, I’m back as James Bond/ strong with my armour on, you can hear it in the song/ this is so much more then rappin/ I’m gonna to bring compassion, back into fashion/ I’m so focused Mr. Robertson’s opus/ no hocus pocus, potions or posin/ just emotion, fan base growin/ don’t front you know I got you open/ provoked and I’m feelin as if I’ve been chosen/ for the kids picked on and pissed off/ all the people lost loosin there luck of the draw on the coin toss/ I wanna give em lyrics to sing and beats to bang/ rather then there fists to bricks and these sets they claim/ I’m well aware of the pain maybe I could be the one that’s gonna make a change/

I’m thinking I can change the world, I’m thinking I can change the world
I’m thinking I can change the world, I’m thinking I can change the world

A leader for the down and out, voice for the poor/ gonna touch on topics most chose to ignore/ an artist who can hear that you need help if you listen close/…….you can hear yourself…….the goals to spread hope/ and help you cope with loss when your broke pissed off and wanna choke your boss/ your life reads like a joke at times too difficult just to laugh it off/ might as well put a hand to the pen, pen to the page/ mouth to the mic foot to the stage eyes on the crowd vocals into range/ talent to the test purpose is to change.

Give me your time we’re gonna light up the dark, give me your ear I’m gonna give you my heart
Give me your time we’re gonna light up the dark, give me your ear I’m gonna give you my heart Give me your time we’re gonna light up the dark, give me your ear I’m gonna give you my heart Give me your time we’re gonna light up the dark, give me your ear I’m gonna give you my heart

I’m thinking I can change the world, I’m thinking I can change the world
Maybe I can change the world, Maybe I can change the world

OUTRO

He thinks he can change the world, He thinks he can change the world

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Verse 1
I’m no crook I never stole a purse/ I’ve never seen the ocean never hit the surf/ but my mothers got a brain tumour it’s getting worst/ and I don’t know my father and I’m feelin cursed/ So I bust my ass in school it didn’t work/ cause I’m givin resume’s and they ain’t givin work/ I’m told to have some faith and to go to church/submerse myself in music and I write a verse/ see I flirt with disaster I’m feelin hurt/ But I act as if it doesn’t matter sweepin off the dirt/ tryin to make ends working a dead end/ in the end does it matter how much that I spend/ Workin in this office behind the counter serving patrons/ holding on to my slipping patience/ is it dream chasin or time wasted/ appraising my praises the only thing that can save him/ and well

Chorus
Same shit different day
Nothing to say, no one to blame, and the shit don’t change
just a game that we play
Hey, same shit just a different day

Verse 2
She’s 15 and she’s pushing a stroller/ awaiting on the day that her baby dady’s sober/ she went up against the family order/ on the bus for the abortion just like they told her/ but it’s a mix between feelin like somebody chose her/ then convinced by the image of a Pro Life poster/ Living in a neighbourhood where everybody thinks they know her/ In her business gossip about the horror/ But, Nobody helps or offers a shoulder/ She’s got this pain as a cast away and its starting to choke her/ still holds on near and dear is it fear or is love sincere/ Se he, said he’d try to provide/ but too busy bitchin ‘bout the rims and the tints on his ride/..shit you lookin surprised, you want the truth go and look outside/ an outsider hey

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Verse3
On the side where dude’s pick up cigarette butts/ and they sit and they bitch about there luck/ Rather then buying groceries they’re buying a bottle/ clutching rosaries, prayin to strike the lotto/ Its just a part of the territory/ toddlers walkin the street without there parents even knowing/ and our poets where ball caps and have questionable past’s/ spoken word on drum loops and sample stabs/ If you don’t catch a growth spirt hoop dreams won’t work/ confused, your seeing life like hoops/ if you ain’t a big dude you better learn to shoot/ and you could loose your lady to a looser with a coup/ Can’t throw a football like Joey Montana/ so your throwing 8balls like Tony Montana/ in a life where nothings certain bed sheets for curtains/ keep on dreamin and try to see it workin/

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Verse 1
He can’t help were he lives he’s no extremist/ he minds his own business cares for his wife and his kids/ he loves his God and his family/ Keeps him safe, at bay and prays three times a day/ they say a bullet has no name/ well a missile has no face fired miles away/ doomed, death sent at the hands of the man/ from a distant lands god damn/ labelled miss calculated damage done/ dead wife two daughters and a newborn son/ He goes crazy inside/ broken hearted with a bomb on the back of a motorbike.

Chorus
Dry your eyes of war cries/ I’ll take your life your life
see what I’ve been through
the same reason your killing me is why I’m killing you.

Verse 2
It wasn’t the towers collapsing, he’s not pursuing a career in the Corp./ more like money fore college another young man headed off to war/ He hates this life as a soldier/ just keep your mouth shut go on and follow orders/ It becomes too much for him witnessing these horrors/ with a target on his back looking over his shoulder/ He knows it’s a hopeless mission/ How could he spot the enemy, everybody fits the description/ To protect you need compassion, its heard to love when/ fear brings hate then taints your judgement

Chorus
Dry your eyes on war cries/ I’ll take your life
See what I’ve been through
The same reason your killing me is why I’m killing you

I know I’m right/ I got people on my side that’s loosing their life/ See what I’ve been through
The same reason your killin me is why I’m killin you

Verse 3
His papa was a cop his father before him/ this is what he wanted from the moment he was born/ the utmost respect, what you’d expect/ dedicating your life to serve and protect/ He never took a bribe, only fired his side arm once/ it still hurts him inside you see the young man died/ he spent the whole night crying hoping it’s the last time/ He patrols his beat see the youth on the street/ grinding there teeth feels the heat in the community/ burned good intensions can turn/ you treat a man as an enemy enough and he’ll learn/

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Verse 4
He’s more then his neighbourhood such a good kid/ studies after school takes less then he gives/ left an abusive father fresh start/ listens to his mother home before dark/ He grows older starts to feel out of place/ his sneakers are falling apart keeping up in the rat race/ teenage years they get tuff/ bitterness built up when they get pulled over enough/ harassed and beat up. so much anger inside that he starts to seize up/ He’s craving control tired of being civil/ he puts down his books and picks up a pistol/…Damn.

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Dry your eyes of war cries I’ll take your life your life see what I’ve been through/ the reason your killing me is why I’m killing you
I know I’m right got people on my side that’s loosing there life/ see what I’ve been through/ the same people that’s killing me that’s why I’m killing you eh.

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Paid 4 your love paid…………Paid for your love
Paid 4 your love paid…………Paid for your love

Verse 1
She’s hot now she’s on top, she does her thing/ every block and corner spot they know her name/ she got a mean walk sex in her strut/ with a 3D body you wanna reach out and touch/ she meets credentials she’s pretty in the face/ thick body and got plenty to shake/ she puts an arch in her back, enough to rest a glass/ on her lower half, attack/ bounce she’s a brick house/ fellas get to huffin and puffin they wanna tear the walls down/ She flicks her hair back and puts a lift in her chest/ Yes, fantasies of seeing lady undress/ her dress is cut right shows off her thighs and calves/ material off the her breast and ass/ seductive go head hate it or love it/ before you touch it you better check your budget/ preparation before her appearance in public/ is like 3 hours and that’s without the touch-ups/ She says she’s part Brazilian, and she could prove it/ she put a lift in her skirt to show where the truth is/

Verse 2
Pure temptation Latin native/ and her wardrobe moves as if animated/ she calls over a fellow with a stance in stilettos/ far from subtle she grabs him by the belt buckle/ she puts a finger in her mouth and suckles/ his knees buckle as she sucks it off the knuckle/ she’s a sex kitten on a mission/ to be the boss Chiquita/ top dog seniorita/ her hips are hypnotic/ jealous fellas get to boxin from the moment that she walked in/ it turns her on just to sit back watchin’/ she’s Mrs. Lova Lova with pussy in her holster/ she’s loves the drama it floods her ego/ see nobody gave two shits like three years ago/ now she’s on the get back the next to chase the kitty cat/ they’re gonna regret that/ they used to pay her no mind, its her time to shin/ sex is a weapon and she’s lethal at time/ once she’s got ya she’s gonna break your bank/ your so consumed with the sex you don’t see your mistakes/ you got caught thinking with your cock/meanwhile, you were taken for everything that you got/ But you hate her or blame her/ this is an introduction to a female player.

Bridge
She’s Marilyne Monroe/ a pro on a stripper pole/ but she won’t give her heart no/
Ice cold if you don’t got the doe she don’t wanna know.
She’s Marilyne Monroe/ a pro on a stripper pole/ but she won’t give her heart no/
Ice cold if you don’t got the doe she don’t wanna know.

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Verse 1
I hold you close lonely Nights/ get a dose that’s right, that’s right/
Take your top off on the rocks/ or out the box you know your mine/
Caress your neck perspiration on your skin/ your full bodied but probably you got me out on a limb/
when out lips touch its trust/ thinking I got to drink you up, this lust/ once I start em won’t stop till I hit the bottom/ you got em slurring when talkin’ stumbling in my walk/ plus I know deep down inside to the point its approaching a problem/ you say

Chorus
You don’t know what you got here
I don’t know why you stay here
We got to find a way here
Tell me what do you need me 4

Verse 2
You say, Take me Take me/ I’m good to you baby/ nothing’s better then putting our two bodies together/ I’m at ease with the breeze/ and these pipe dreams….steam/ Pierce me like Celtic Green/ Struggle with demons introduced me to a new scene/ I’m no marine, but believing you make me all I be/ you say trust me/ when your not here see things can get ugly/ your no good for me but deep down I swear that you love me/ you say

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Verse 3
No More No More/ see what I’m torn between/ patience is weak grinding my teeth/ and I’m anxious when I speak/ tell me will I ever learn/ I can’t rest unless I let this pipe burn/ will I ever leave/ sick with a fiend inside of me/ now say goodbye to me/ you lied to me, my bride to be, bribery/ I sold out violently, killing me silently/ my hands won’t stop shakin’ wakin’ to Satan/ sayin’ save him a taste/ I can’t keep playin’ with with this reflection I’m Facin’

Chorus
You Don’t know what you got here
And I, don’t know why I stay Here
We got to find a way here
Tell me, what do I Need you 4

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Verse 1
You see she’s reaching, but she never gets touched/ she never thought that she could hurt so got damn much/ she’s getting fucked up off of this unrequited love/ desperate for some care she’s confused for a slut/ developed drug addiction its swepted under the rug/maybe if her daddy just gave her a hug/ but, we’re just passing the buck

Her best friend chose coke/ says she likes the stone/ and she see’s it as elegant to do blow/ Plus she hates needles, she’d rather put it in her nose/ she’s got control she’s invincible/ energy to rule the night life in the city/and as an added bonus keeps her looking skinny/ cause her mother told her since she was itty bitty/That the value of a woman is in being pretty…really/
The problem builds she’s mixing it with pills/ she knows it kills still rails with 20 dollar bills/ reckless, we blame the dealers not the parents/ for locking up her heart when cardiac arrested/ yes its just passing the buck.

Chorus

Here I throw in my two cents/ I rub these pennies together trying to make sense/ out of this mess, who can you trust/ we’re just passin’ the buck, pass the buck/

Verse 2
Kids caught up they call another cat Cuz/ thinking he’s just dancing when C-walkin in clubs/ with a red bandanna didn’t know what it was/ he didn’t know he was crippin as he’s dressed like a blood/ real Crips in the cut, and they start to get bugged/ pop culture it collides with gang life and tugs/ the price of ignorance another kid shot up/ what, we’re just passin the buck…/Social problems becomes daunting my heart pains/ when I heard about Baltimore’s Deamonte/ I thought how could a kid today die from a tooth ache/ see these issues running deeper then media claims/ its more then Medicaid or broken families/ or anything else a newspaper can say/ hey, We’re just Passin’ the buck

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Verse 3
Family binds, but when its breaking your stride/ you gotta consider about breakin them ties/ see I tried I cried till I was drained inside/ I did the best I could do to provide/ I gave you everything I had, this verse will be the last/ the best I can do for you is step back/ so you can fall on your own, it hurts me so/ see I know that you need it in order to grow/ I gave you everything I had this verse will be the last/ the best I can do for you is step back/ so you can fall on your own, it hurts me so/ see I know that you need it in order to grow.

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Intro
This one feels good
You can go ‘head and get your two step on to this one

REFLECT

Verse 1
All I really want is her…Her/
But I guess I couldn’t address her concerns/ So I had to feel the burn/
its my turn to be love sick and damn I caught the germ/
I’ll put in a motion, my emotion before adjourned/
hey you live and you learn/
I should of held her hand more often/ did all the little things that I did when we first met/
Kept her in my heart, let her rest on my mind /the way she’d rest her head on my chest after sex/
slow haul of the cigarette/ one day I’ll let go but nope a not yet… not yet

Chorus
I see this lady every time I sleep
I guess that makes her the woman of my Dreams
I’d love to see her dance
Dance to my poetry
Just last week I had a dream
You and me and we were happy
We could make it happen
If you want it bey…bey

Verse 2
I never had much of a temper if /I was ever tempted with /
just one look and she could soften my temperament/
We never had to pretend to fit, we just did/ two coals cut from the same stone/
Pressure over time had you diamond /but not mine since I burned up in the grind/
I say I’m fine..you know I’m lyin’/ but baby take a look at you shinin’/
and I’m tryin been working on my end /only if I could have been better with timin’/
I used to place my happiness in the hands of a woman/
now I know I gotta first find comfort alone on my own/
although, it would have been nice to see you dance to just one of my poems/
See last week I had a dream/ You and me, and we were happy dancing to my poetry

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Verse 3
Yes at times I get misty eyed /missing her pretty eyes, regretting our goodbyes/
see at times life is so uncertain/ pushing me to the brink of tear jerkin/
but I’m using it to grow as a person/ perched atop of hurt searchin/ I guess this is higher learnin/
they say you don’t deserve it, I say you do/ I want you back but we can’t I’m confused/
See we’re both chasing a dream and yours is coming true/ take the time you need I’ll support you/
I keep hope soon we can work out our issues /and maybe get together and I’ll no longer miss you, or misuse/ If I ever did I never meant to/ I want you for myself you can call it greedy/
I guess at times it had me coming off needy/ I’d love to see you dance to my poetry

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Melle Mel………………Flash

Bridge
Don’t - Push -Me -Cause - I’m - close - to - my- limit
Fist - to - the - ceilin’ - for - those - who - feel - it

Don’t - Push -Me -Cause - I’m - close - to - my- limit
Fist - to - the - ceilin’ - for - those - who - feel - it

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Bridge
They say its too late to apologize/ If you mean it, then its worth a try/
I said I’m sorry…sorry …/ for pushing you out of my life/

They say its too late to apologize/ If you mean it, then its worth a try/
I said I’m sorry…sorry …/ for pushing you out of my life/

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I’m a star you a star…..You’re a Star

Verse 1
This one goes out to you…You../ the youth, the misused, confused, tears on your sleeve with no tissues and no excuse you push on through…………..

No shoes old clothes on a young child/ still so proud with his Kool-aid smile/
beautiful big girls who are funny and loud/and loved their round ass before in style/
young man, basketball and no team/ still hold strong to a hoop dream/ single mothers deep down feelin fed up/ but, still tells her kids all we need is love/ and your son hears you break down in your bedroom/ hurt inside knowing there’s nothing that he can do/ he makes a promise to be great so you can both smile when looking back at the pain/ and hey

Its all right alright...alright… alright

Chorus
I won’t stay Silent
Buy into people lyin’ sometimes
We’re laughing just to keep from crying
No matter what happens I’m gon’ stay tryin’/ cause I’m a star ,you’er a star and we’re gon’ stay shinin’

Verse 2

They’re gonna hate you hold you down try to break you/ degrade and try to erase you/
shake a hater, perpetrator all that anger/ let it go let it go/ I’ve swam in lies smack dab in a sea of back stab/ fell off the map slipped into a trap thank god for that/ I lost it all but I gained myself back/
here I stand. Learned to take time and let my heart speak/ or they’ll forget abut me in a heart beat/
if cats were willin’ as Katt Williams/ to accept the haters and try to keep them building/ taste of bravery, invite those with no one to hate/ feel free to go and hate on me/ Success is near and I care/ but I’m prepared for my fare share of cold stares/ those who liked me love me, those who loved me love me/
they pray I don’t change/ and those who hate me they hate harder meanwhile I still feel the same way/

I’m alright…alright… alright

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Intro
(News Clip)
Dah de dah Dah dah dah dah dah dah

Verse 1
I read the news, excuse, excuse/ tell me what do I do, what do I do/ more laws to abide by/ scared to go on outside danger, danger is the message/ reinforcing racial tension/If its tragic then you print it/
I pray for good news and hope you just missed it/ I got friends who are scared to fly/
they got fears of falling out the sky/ more enemies armed robbery/ suspect sounds a lot like me/

Chorus
Mr. newspaper man I can’t believe a word you say
Mr. Newspaperman I can’t believe a word I read
Mr. newspaper man I can’t believe a word you say
Mr. Newspaperman I can’t believe a word I read

Da de dah dah dha dah dah de dah

Verse 2
My pockets are still empty, like many/ unemployment is gonna get me/ its gonna get me y’all/
my chances I watch them slide by/ wonderin’ when I’m gonna get mine/ you side with the government and you say trust it/ tell me why me and my boys are still struggling’/ so we hustling’/ you claim it ain’t safe/ tell me how I should behave/ my finger tips are ink stained/ flippin through employment page/ I got to get a job

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Verse 3
I confide to the limits of my confines/ and co-sign for cats of all kinds/ ones who collide with cops and authority/ and folks who came up broke just like me/ this is not how its suppose to be/ take what’s yours go ahead an follow my lead/ first week they say this, and then its that/ caught in contradictions try to stay out the trap/ condemn violent images in music and movies/ then print a picture of a child with an oozy/ I’m thankful for the service you provide/ you keep the homeless covered at night/ thank you

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Verse 1
Well, you can't say I didn't try, It wasn't my time/ some things aren't meant to arrive/
I got dreams immaterialized, I let it ride/ and take a chance to confide/
I can't blame a lack of love, or being hurt/ growth spirts or the lack there of/
I guess its time I pull the plug/ decide to move on and move up out of this rut that I been stuck on/
I tried to steak my claim, but either way/ life spent training for a game that I couldn't play/
my body couldn't co operate, I used to hear them say/ "don't forget about ME when you break"/ quick to take, I didn't make it/ then watched them walk away/ I lost them and myself in the game/ I thought I lost friends, just the fakes with the fame/ now I let time mend, and see there loss to my gain/ Its a New Day

Chorus
Woke up this mornin'
Dried my eyes from weepin'
my hearts been broken to pieces,
I finally found a reason
I got somethin' to believe in
I found piece within Change........
Some way we all pray
for a new day

Verse 2
(Hov) Now I don't think its meant to be, - B- / for she's got a dream and wants it more then she does me/
And honestly at 22, I would probably do/exactly what she felt she had to/
so she packed up and moved/now what’s a man to do/
got thoughts of her with another dude/ and my insecurities consume/
I gave up too soon/ I should of asked to be her groom/
it was almost too much to loose/ now I changed my tune/
I want a woman for more then bedrooms/
cause truthfully at 24/I'm starting to want more/
then just another chick out to score/ I want somebody I could care for/
now I'm love sore/nothings fair in love and war/
and until my dream girl walks through the door/
I need to figure out just what it is that I'm runnin for/
Its a new day

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Bridge
Someway we all pray
For a new Day
(bluewater ladies and gentlemen...Hey)

Verse 3
He's not the devil just a man/in his final hour feeling time falling with a grain of sand/
and he said, this is not the way he planned/but when his plans didn't pan he got scared and ran/
these where the words he said to me/ tryin’ to make me see/why he chose the bottle over me/
drinking up animosity/towards my mother, he said it seems she's pregnant everytime he touched her/
and I wonder if he ever loved her/ and if he ever wondered/ about me and both of my brothers/
I overcame the teenage rage, left undirected cause I can't even remember his face/
he said he tried to change his ways \ but there's no medication he could find to take his problems away/
and I have nothing left to say/but maybe there're some words to help ease a little bit of his pain/
its a New Day

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Intro
Sometimes…..Sometimes life is just hard, you know, you know, Reflect

Verse 1
And they say life’s a bitch.. /That’s an understatement, still I try to be patent/
although it gets harder these days, its such a humbling feeling handing out the resume/
praying somebody’s gonna give an opportunity/ instead of just turning me away and I have to wait/
I’m casting wishing stones onto pavement roads/
while fighting back tears that got me up against the ropes/ Your overqualified for this, no experience in that/ every chance I have I just wanna rap/ I’m feelin’ my degree didn’t do shit for me/
if ignorance is bliss it just made me unhappy/ freedom of information, why isn’t information free/
schools and prisons into business making money/ I’m more confused now then when I started my studies/ scary how many lies are buried in those libraries/

Chorus
Things will look up for you son yeahhh/
I know life’s been beating you down’ your lonely now I’ve been there
Things will look up for you son yeahhh/
I know life’s been beating you down’ your lonely now I’ve been there

Verse 2
I’m so unsure of what the future holds/ and I don’t even like my own reflection anymore/
I’m sure Ill get through it but, I spend so much time alone that I’m starting to get used to it/
don’t tell me I don’t have a chance, shit, I need this dream/
if there’s no chance for this there’s no chance for me/ and its fucked up cause I swear in my heart I’m a star/ then I go home to an empty fridge and I sit in the dark/ its like nobody knows my name/ and I crave fame like its gonna solve everything/ sometimes I take a token take a toke and hop a subway/ just to ride the loop and be near somebody/ Now why without the rhythm is it so hard to say how I’m feelin’/ I know the arguments they had me hard to be partners with/ sometimes it gets to be too much I’m not looking for a crutch/ guess I’m just looking for love huh/

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Well I guess if you do exist, then there’s a reason for everything/ and I should thank you for the pain/
I mean it made me the man that I am today/ and I’m sorry for all the times that I cursed your name/
but I’m sure you understand why I go against the grain/ and how I’m not really the type for prayin’/
but tell me, what’s the reason for certain situations/ and how does it colour this world your painting/
the neighbours called in the dispute so they could handle it/ but it’s the end of there shift and they don’t give a shit/ cop knock at the door to answer the complaint/ not much to say before they vacate/
I wonder if they wonder what goes on in that place/ and she’s got to go to work the next day ashamed/ having to explain all those bruises on her face/
she goes home makes dinner and she still says grace…………huh

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Bridge

You ever loose it all in one shot
your job your dream and everything in between.
You ever loose it all in one shot
everything you have your life your love everything you got
You ever loose it all in one shot
your pride your mind and everything inside
If you ever loose it all in one shot don’t don’t don’t give up no

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