Are we left all alone? Mother has no time but she cares for me And she cries all the tears I am joining now the river flow I am three days old Now the time has come, you have to be a man I don't want to destroy The only chance I have to survive down here

Left their letters in the sand Such waste of life Dreams of freedom turned to dust how many wasted lives How many dreams did fade away Broken promises They won't be coming home Oh mothers wipe your tears

Yeah yeah yeah Hold the fuck up We gonna take this little intermission to listen To what the fuck I got to say, you know I been doing this shit for years: Holding heat, selling Using, abusing all kinds of drugs; Robbing niggas, running up in niggas'

Get it get it, get it get it (oh) Baby, don't you wanna, dance up on me (I just wanna dance next to you) To another time and place (Are you ready) Leaving behind my name, and age (Like that) I really wanna dance, tonight with you I really wanna do what

Look outside at the raincoats coming, say oh Johanna drove slowly into the city The Hudson river all filled with snow She spied the ring on his honor's finger A thousand years in one piece of silver She took it from his lily white hand Showed no fear

Oh baby, baby I'm not that innocent Oops, I did it again I played with your heart, got lost in the game Oops, you think I'm in love That I'm sent from above That is just so typically me Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

All this money I be staring at You already know that Bring your love baby, I'mma bring my shame Bring the drugs baby, I'mma bring my pain In you and I there's a new land Angels in flight My sanctuary, my sanctuary, yeah Where fears and lies melt away

On 22nd Street All the years, since bittersweet The falling leaves will tumble to defeat 22nd was the place I met the girl of dreams A bright sunny day in November Such a beautiful sight staring right back at me Are chapters in a fairy tale That still

Don't leave me out the chain And the devil's forever in my veins Count me, count me, call my name Crimson tears falling and my shirt is blood-stained 'Cause the devil's forever in my veins The devil's forever in my veins Lately I've been afraid of myself

Sweet emotion You talk about things that nobody cares You're wearing out things that nobody wears You're calling my name but I gotta make clear I can't say baby where I'll be in a year When some sweet hog mama with a face like a gent Said my get up and