In this glass world In this glass world, we stop feeling pain, Going nowhere, we've got everything, In this glass world, People who live below, wish they were here, just looking in In this glass world, we bathe by starlight, No troubles here, that's on

Ah, but that green grass on the other side Is just an illusion We all have our own confusion Looking out at the people looking in Feeling good must be some kind of sin Looking in at the people looking out Feeling guilty, scared to move about Looking up

I concentrate on you. Whenever skies look gray to me And trouble begins to brew, Whenever the Winter winds become too strong, When fortune cries "Nay! Nay!" to me And people declare "You're through!", Whenever the blues become my only song, On your smile

And I can't tell you why I can't tell you why Every time I try to walk away Something makes me turn around and stay Look at us baby, up all night Tearing our love apart Aren't we the same two people who live Through years in the dark?

I live a dark life, I don't let people in They say I smoke too much, but this my medicine Don't get the wrong impression, I'm 'bout my presidents Rock star my life, look at the evidence And would you shoot for me? 'Cause I would kill for you I like the

I've been down so long it look like up to me They look up to me I got fake people showin' fake love to me Straight up to my face, straight up to my face Whole time they wanna take my place Somethin' ain't right when we talkin' That's when they smile in

I'm prolly not what you thought Guess I don't know what to say I leave it all on the stage Look, people ask me what the future is All I know is I'll be doin' this All I know is things are moving quick That's convenient for me 'cause that’s how I live Now

Don't look back to the days of yesteryear, You cannot live on in the past, Don't look back. And I've known so many people That still try to live on in the past, Don't look back, oh no. And if I could call back all those days of yesteryear, I would never

Yet again, I'm hustling, hustling, hustling But I can't seem to catch a dime Take a little hit and I lose the time I took the man and his horse And ran before he looked up I said the light's gonna change But I'm calm and feeling warm And now I'm sticking

Yo to my people doing time, xzibit, juvenile, y'all need to Nature, ja rule, reptile come on Bring the heat. Look, I'm inhumane livin' in this house of pain Stuck with a thousand street hustlers Down on they luck Repeat felons caught up with the death I