I go to to the grave before I be a bitch nigga Better behave: you dealin' with some rich niggas Started in the ghetto, now we worldwide Multiplying and I pray to to God we never die This is for the soldiers that see the sun at midnight, ya dig Let me slow down

Cresting the waves Leading us all to to the grave Slaying all foes Who dare to to oppose His eyes shine like the rays of morning His mouth is as a burning flame Tearing bodies limb from limb Eviscerating on a whim

There's one kind of favor I'm gonna ask of you Dig my grave with a silver spade Every link in my Jesus name Ever hear that church bell tone When I'm dead don't grieve for me Come right here and put flowers on my grave See that my grave is kept clean

Oh, what a world, I don't wanna leave There's all kinds of magic, it's hard to to believe These are real things Oh, what a world, and then there is you (And then there is you) Oh, what a world, don't wanna leave All kinds of magic all around us, it's hard

You can have Charleston My home, my heart Where I was born and raised Where one day they're gonna take my body And lay it in a grave But it's got to to be this way It's gonna break my heart to to say, goodbye But it'll kill me if I stay The cobblestone streets

This town's too small to to be mean And somebody's sister knows somebody's husband And somebody's daughter knows somebody's brother And around here, we all look out for each other Aw, but don't you forget it, as big as we're getting Too small to to be lying

You can have Charleston My home, my heart Where I was born and raised Where one day they're gonna take my body And lay it in a grave But it's got to to be this way It's gonna break my heart to to say, goodbye But it'll kill me if I stay The cobblestone streets

To the moon and back To To the ends of the Earth Through the dirt and the gravel Through the years and the miles Every road that you traveled Through the tears and the smiles Through the clear and the muddy Through the thick and thin The quiet nights, the

You can have Charleston My home, my heart Where I was born and raised Where one day they're gonna take my body And lay it in a grave But it's got to to be this way It's gonna break my heart to to say, goodbye But it'll kill me if I stay The cobblestone streets

You try to to tell me you want happiness But you ain't happy unless You're miserable And you can't win unless you lose Your heart's as heavy as the stones you throw Can't see the flowers for the weeds you grow You blow your bubbles just to to watch 'em burst