A hero comes home Though wide he may roam He goes where no one has gone He will return Out of the mist of history He'll come again

King of the streets, child of clay What made them want to come and blow you away Born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in the year of who knows when Opened up his eyes to the tune of an accordion Always on the outside of whatever side there was When they asked him

When the walls come down And the walls come down You tore out my heart You threw it away Took a wrong turn and found surprise awaits Now there's nothing in the way I can get there on my own You can leave me here alone

You buy my songs Wanna dedicate this joint right here To Johnason, Jackson, and George Jackson Peace to those brothers Wanna shoutout my man sherm the worm? Come home nigga Come home niggas?

Tempted and tried we're oft made to wonder why it should be thus all the day long While there are others living about us, never molested, though in the wrong When death has come and taken our loved ones, it leaves our home so lonely and dreary Then do we

Sippin' Ace of Spades, I do Got the K everywhere I go Don't come to me 'bout no ho Poppin' niggas like tic-tac-toe Poppin' niggas like Tic Tac Toe Don't come to me 'bout no rumor My partner, he got a tumor Every day, I keep a ruler Just me, I don't need

Come a little closer baby I feel like layin' you down So come a little closer baby I feel like lettin' go I feel like strippin' it down On a bed of sweet surrender Where we can work it all out There ain't nothin' that love can't fix Girl it's right here

Only in dreams, so blindly you follow Only in death we come to amends This bitter pill I'm left here to swallow Or will I see you in the end? You took him away Without a trace or tear, erased from the story Hate fills these bloodshot eyes He was gone

Captive honour, ain't no honour Madness comes, and madness goes An insane place, with insane moves Battles without, for battles within Where evil lives and evil rules Breaking them up, just breaking them in Quickest way out, quickest relief wins Never

And into the river we'd dive I come from down in the valley Where mister when you're young They bring you up to do like your daddy done Me and Mary we met in high school When she was just seventeen We'd ride out of this valley down to where the fields