At that hangout my daddy used to hang around We watched it all go up in smoke until it all came down Just like after tabs and stooge and tables got turned To the only joint my momma ever burned The only joint my mother burned was on the rural route She

I had good intentions But I'm not perfect the way you're perfect And though it hurts, yeah, it hurts to say goodbye I know I let you down It wasn't that your love wasn't good enough Couldn't stick around It's only in myself that I didn't trust Baby, you

All this life shrouded in a veil Of deception in association But now I will witness thee With unblinding open eyes Judas I bury you in your own blood You only held me down from what I was suppose to be Ascend above the ashes of the world I once knew

Don't take your love to town You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere The shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down It wasn't me that started this whole crazy Asian war But

Now, one day I started telling everyone that "Killing Is My Business..." And I was hung like a martyr For "Looking Down the Cross" my "Skull Beneath the Skin" Prophesied "Last Rites/Loved to Death" my friends Then I started seeing "Bad Omens" in my head

We've gone way too fast for way too long Forgot what I was losing my mind about I only wrote this down to make you press rewind And send a message, "I was young and a menace" Young, young, young and a menace And we were never supposed to make it half

Forcing her own blood down Beneath the waters to drown Lying dead with eyes wide open Believing Satan was inside Ordering to abide To destroy her cursed children A common woman Lives by the bible Wed-locked a prison

Every little thing With you and me have to be so political? Everything, every little thing Why did everything, every little thing I was tired of being put right down By myself for not being what you Thought you had found Pulled hard in two directions by

I am the champion I am invincible, unbreakable Unstoppable, unshakeable They knock me down, I get up again You're gonna know my name You can't hurt me now I can't feel the pain I was made for this, yeah, I was born to win I'll be the last one standing

Her momma wants to know Down, down, down that road When I was a boy Four houses down from me Was a family with an only child She was the only girl In this whole world that can make me smile I made up reasons to go