As long as you're a black man, you're an African So don't care where you come from No mind your nationality You've got the identity of an African Don't care where you come from You have got the identity of an African 'Cause if you come from Clarendon

It's not easy To say goodbye I wanted you for life You and me in the wind I never thought there'd come a time That our story would end It's hard to understand But I guess I'll have to try

Doin' it all nite, all summer I live my day as if it was the last Live my day as if there was no past Doin' it the way I wanna Yeah I’mma dance my heart out ’til the dawn But I won’t be done when morning comes Gonna spend it like no other Now I've found

I just don't understand The ways of the world today Sometimes I feel Like there's nothing to live for So I'm longing for the days of yesterday Won't somebody tell me Remember back in the time When the only sign we had was pickets But now in '94, it be

Here comes forever girl Here comes that movie scene The one you think is so cliché That moment when we kissed By the lake pouring rain I ain't no superman I'm talking about starting out as friends I'm talking about real and not pretend I'm talking about

Laughing with your girlfriends Not a care in the world, not a burden on your mind It was a matter of time You're looking for a way out I can feel it Come on, show me where it hurts Maybe I can heal it Your feelings are your own Now you keep 'em under

I lay there in the dark And I close my eyes You saved me the day You came alive You saved me The day you came alive Seems like only yesterday Life belonged to runaways

Oh if you're there I will be blessed Heaven is the arms that hold us Long before we go When the world comes to gather me in Said who do you love the most Oh my ghost came by here Oh hey heaven is the place we know Oh hey, heaven is the place we know

Don't come out the house 'cause the gang outside Bang outside, I hang outside Bang outside, hang outside Thirteen, got my first stripe, first stripe Glenwood road, where they shiest, nigga Slaughter Gang so I keep a knife, nigga We was broke so all we

Now if you came with ya man, leave 'em over there Yeah, it's a jungle out here (watch out) Now we can keep it in the club, or we can leave Ooh, girl I want you to shake, shake, shake, shake, shake What your mama gave ya (uh huh) Come on ooh, sexy thang