Look at yourself Like a straying baby lamb With no mammy and no pappy If you had a sense of humor You would laugh to beat the band Do you still believe the rumor That romance is simply grand? Since you took it right on the chin You have lost that bright

Train arrive, it's sixteen coaches long Well, that long black train take my baby and gone Mystery train, rollin' down the track Train, train, rollin' 'round the bend Well, it took my baby, people it won't be coming back Well, it took my baby, people it

Don't remember where I was I realized life was a game The more seriously I took things The harder the rules became I had no idea what it'd cost My life passed before my eyes I found out how little I accomplished All my plans tonight So as you read this

My destination, my mission, my intuition So close I feel it changing me False affection took the best of me Deep inside, the absent mind Denial and hypocrisy All the same To do this we part our ways Suddenly I know, I have to let it go All that's been

A gypsy driftin' down the road I learned quick my eighteenth summer Diggin' ditches for the man You can't be a guitar strummer Cussin' that shovel in your hand Took my paycheck to a pawn shop Bought a silverstone guitar Wrote a song about a beer joint

These streets took my conscience All the finer things, designer jeans, I'm getting paid Yeah, Project Baby Sniper Gang Yeah, everybody with me on that same thang I don't gang-bang but I bang bang I pull up to the club, I got on eight chains Took that

All of me, why not take all of me Can't you see that I'm no good without you Take my arms I want to lose them Take my lips I'll never use them Your goodbye left me with eyes that cry You took the part that once was my heart So why not take all of me And

We'll carry on Your memory will carry on Will never take my heart You can try You'll never break me When I was a young boy My father took me into the city To see a marching band He said, son, when you grow up

You might not never come down You may never ever come down It took too long to get this high off the ground Don't run, just stay awhile Now you, drank up all my liquor, come on What I'm supposed to do now? You talkin' all that shit, now come on You gonna

The elusive mystery Determined by the stars The fear is real The truth is real The stigma is valid, truth and fear It will set us free It took my Pa I stand in deliverance