I am the chosen next in line Rip the souls, born to die Send to slaughter your mankind No reason for you to try Let me tell you to try What did you tell you Another day goes by Tell me why does So this is why

Don't know why My old friend My old friend, I recall The times we had, hanging on my wall I wouldn't trade them for gold 'Cause they laugh and they cry me Somehow sanctify me They're woven in the stories I have told, and tell again

Why you wanna be so mean? You've gone and let your true colors show You're a perpetual blues machine Tell me why you wanna be so cold? Baby why you wanna be so cold? You had style, you had class You had everything to make a love last You had grace, you

Tell me your lies Because I just can't face it I don't know why She got, she got, she got Her own reasons For talking to me And she don't, she don't, she don't Give a fuck

That's my prerogative Everybody's talking all this stuff about me Why don't they just let me live? (Tell me why) I don't need permission, make my own decisions (That's my prerogative) It's the way that I wanna live (It's my prerogative)

Doing lines in the restroom Tell me why my exes besties now I was down for you At one point in my life Down for you Once upon a time You held me down Now you just holding me back Thinking pics gon' stress me out

You don't have to be alone tonight Why you sitting at home tonight Waiting for him to call you up at midnight, drunk To tell you that he wants you Let's get out of town tonight Get lost and found tonight 'Til you don't care let me love you right Let's go

Young and reckless, rich and wealthy Say health is wealth, that means I'm deadly That's why they sweat me, successful black man With a felony, but what you tellin' me? Don't hire me so I bought the company Bitch ain't shit funny, I'm not Bill Bellamy

I ain't looking down no more Tell me what I'm up here for Oh, the wire keeps getting higher, keeps getting higher On the wire, I don't know why If I were a crow, I wouldn't have no fear of heights For watching this old world's fragile below I don't have

Please don’t pass me by If I'm walking but I don’t know why Can you love me if I put up a fight? You see my oldest friend Tell her that I’m gone again You take my old guitar The one that I once said was ours Don’t be blue You hum that old tune