You know it's everything I do There must be something I can do To be myself I just need to hear Somebody say You'll know soon, you'll know soon But that's only when I think of you Some vision that I hold on to Can almost stand competing with the others

Who's that loungin' in my chair? Who's that castin' devious stares in my direction? Mama, this surely is a dream, yeah And I smell sex and candy here Hanging 'round downtown by myself And I've had so much time to sit and think about myself And there she

I shed a tear or two but that don't make me a weaker man It's made me a better man, I've given all I can To a world that sometimes thinks that I'm a lesser man I remember all the things I've been through Gave myself to all those people I once knew I'm

(Tearing myself apart) from the things that make me hurt Something aches Bad things slither My floors are burning down And I can't find a window This is medieval This is cerebral

I'm on a plain I can't complain Love myself Better than you I know it's wrong So what should I do? I'll start this off Without any words I got so high that

Well, I'm out of Alabama, down to Louisiana Halfway 'bout to New Orleans Yeah, I'm leaning on my Chevy Rolling through the levees trying to get to where I wanna be That's where I reckon I can finally put myself at ease Check my life there at the border

And I can't stop thinking about you You never go on till I do I can't stop thinking about you And I fall asleep and dream of alternate realities And I put myself at ease by pretending that she still loves me All alone in my room think of you at a rate

You can't hurt me now I got away from you, I never thought I would You can't make me cry, you once had the power I never felt so good about myself Oh Father you never wanted to live that way You never wanted to hurt me Why am I running away It's funny

It's plain to see, you can't change me 'Cause I'mma be a nigga for life Why do I call myself a nigga you ask me? Why you brothers insist on usin' the word nigga? Don't you know that's bringin down the black race? Personally I think the lyrics are a bit

And you, you want forgiveness But I, I just can't do it yet (I can barely hang on to myself) But I, I can't give you that (I can't give you, I can't give you that) (I'm afraid that I'll have nothing left) (I can't do, I just can't do it yet) Don't you go