Don't burn out, don't burn out on me It's just another damn part, don't let it get the best of you It's only up from the floor, light everything inside of you Won't you box it up for me? Oh, give me strength, and give me peace Does anyone out there

In the ghetto (in the ghetto) On a cold and gray Chicago mornin' And his mama cries As the snow flies A poor little baby child is born 'Cause if there's one thing that she don't need It's another hungry mouth to feed People, don't you understand The

I'm trading one heartbreak for another One kind of pain for a different kind of pain And I wonder if this is gonna hurt even more I'm finally alive but it's killing who I'm living for I don't have to lay beside him Feeling so alone But my baby is crying

Will you and your friend come around Or are you and your friend gonna get on down Are you and your friend gonna get on down Or are you and your friend gonna let me down If you talk to one another I'm a hungry man Let me know one way or the other So I can

I'm a cold one down at the end of the day A little sundown buzz and more on the way I wash a week's worth of dust off my old truck While Bobby Earl runs home to get dressed up Here comes Clifford, gotta forty in a brown bag In his pointed toe boots and a

It's not where I belong Windows in rooms that I'm passin' through Little boy, six years old A little too used to bein' alone Another new mom and dad, another school Another house that'll never be home When people ask him how he likes this place He looks

Are you skankin'? (skankin', skankin') Top rankin' (top rankin') All they want us to do is keep on fussing and fighting They don't want to see us live together All they want us to do is keep on killing one another The sisterly love (sisterly love) Are

It's a family affair, it's a family affair One child grows up to be Somebody that just loves to learn And another child grows up to be Somebody you'd just love to burn Mom loves the both of them You see it's in the blood Both kids are good to Mom

Love is the remedy Pray to be stronger and wiser In love, in music, in life Know you get what you give Love one another (Love is the remedy) I’ve been looking for a sound That makes my heart sing Been looking for a melody

Pour me another one Make it a strong one We’re gonna have some fun tonight Just like the other one Make it a double rum We’re gonna castaway tonight Easy living down in paradise