Stepping out to Angellucci's for my coffee beans Checking out the movies and the magazines Waitress she watches me crossing from the Barocco Bar I'm getting a pickup for my steel guitar I saw you walking out Shaftesbury Avenue Excuse me for talking I

I'm gonna be iron like a lion in Zion I'm gonna be iron like a lion in Zion Iron lion Zion Iron like a lion in Zion I am on the rock and then I check a stock I have to run like a fugitive to save the life I live I'm on the run but I ain't got no gun See

Find out what she's puttin' down I won't even call I won't even write I'm checking on my baby So many nights and days Well, I've been out of town Well, I caught me a plane Flew back that same night Checking on my baby

Straight up out of heaven wit' it uh Baby, you a blessing wit' it uh Come teach me a lesson wit' it uh Diamonds shining, diamonds shining You tryna keep me like a checklist (Uh, uh) Slow whine, slow whine Body cold like a necklace (Uh, uh, uh) Now I keep

One step up and two steps back Woke up this morning my house was cold Checked out the furnace she wasn't burnin' Went out and hoped in my old Ford Hit the engine but she ain't turnin' We've given each other some hard lessons lately But we ain't learnin'

Paycheck, won't you take my blues away? Yeah, I've been waiting on you since Monday And it's work, work, work And I need a break Won't you take my blues away? Straight from the bank to the honky-tonk Burning a hole I'm gonna spend it, yeah 'Cause I

When your wrist like this, you don't check the forecast Made a brick through a brick, I ain't whip up shit From the streets, but I got a little sense But I had to go coupe, no brain, coupe no brain I ain't worried 'bout you, I'ma do what I do And I do my

Jump in the Pegasus If she sleek and foreign, call her Lexus All kinda reckless, the necklace All kinda reckless, I flexed it K-keep the change, yeah you heard me correctly Every week a foreign, I just check her wishlist Only thing I'm here for is

It's a mystery to me, the game commences For the usual fee, plus expenses Confidential information, it's a diary This is my investigation, it's not a public inquiry I go checking out the reports, digging up the dirt You get to meet all sorts in this line

Ain't no tellin' Envelopes comin' in the mail, let her open 'em Hopin' for a check again, ain't no tellin' Yeah, she invite me to the telly, keep the blade with me When I go to check a bitch, ain't no tellin' Yeah, police comin' 'round lookin' for some