They know my name because I told it to them But they don't know where, and they don't know when Keep the car running Can't swim across a river so deep It's coming or when Every night my dream's the same Same old city with a different name They're not

If, you don't know, who I be You better ask somebody about me Oh, you wanna be tough nigga, a look is enough I put that snub nose to ya and bust nigga And they'll tell ya I'm a soldier boy And I done told ya, over and over boy I, know, you, know I'm, on,

You needed me You was just another nigga on the hit list Tryna fix your inner issues with a bad bitch Didn't they tell you that I was a savage Fuck your white horse and a carriage Bet you never could imagine Never told you you could have it To feel a

Tell 'em to take out their tongues It's not you it's them that are wrong And doing what they're told You push my faith near being lost But we'll stick to the guns Don't care if it's marketing suicide We won't crack or compromise Your derisory divides

John, Christine is still with us Christine is dead, Laura Of course, of course, I know but, you know the two ladies in the restaurant? Well, they were watching us while we were eating. They kept staring at us, they told me this because they could see

White riot, I want to riot White riot, a riot of my own Just what they're told to And nobody wants To go to jail Black man gotta lotta problems But they don't mind throwing a brick White people go to school Where they teach you how to be thick

Here we sit And the sand that they call cocaine cost you twice as much as gold You'd be better off to drink your coffee black But I swear, the land it listened to the stories that we told God bless the busted boat that brings us back Across the table

They just thought I'd know better, better. No one ever told me when I was alone The hardest part this troubled heart has never Yet been through now. We've healed the scars that got their start Inside someone like you now. Well had I known or I'd been

Now you're messin' with a a son of a bitch Now you're messin' with a son of a bitch Time's come to pay your dues Heartbreaker, soul-shaker I've been told about you Steam-roller, the midnight shoulder What they been sayin' must be true Red hot mama, oh

They told me that I won't make it I waited all my life for this All my life for this But I made it (We used to say, yeah, we used to say) Yeah, uh, yeah Yeah, yeah, ah, yeah It's tough not to get anxious Exercising my patience