Mama said I was bad, I did something to her head. Well, I was born on a Sunday; on Thursday I had me a job. I was born on a Sunday; by Thursday I was workin' out on the job. I ain't never had no day off since I learned right from wrong. And poppa threw

Brain damage, ever since the day I was born Drugs, what they used to say I was on They say I never knew which way I was goin' But everywhere I go they keep playin' my song Brain damage "Wait he's convulsing!" "Ah"

Makin' their way That's just a little bit more Than the law will allow Just the good ol' boys Never meanin' no harm Beats all you never saw Been in trouble with the law Since the day they was born Staightenin' the curves

The flavor is so strong We've waited for this day We shared some tears of love now Like a desert in the rain When the sun of the day went down There's nobody like my mom There's no place like my home since I was born When I was young I've missed it so

This is war It's a war over me War over me Turn my darkness to light (I have a purpose) Since the day I was born I will die just to live, just to bleed I will fight for my life 'Til I believed

Then tease me with evil since the day I was born? Guilty and confused, I ripped myself apart When you always knew I'd be a civil war That I'd be a civil war, that I'd be a civil war Why you put good into my heart Now, what'd you make me that way for? I'd