Until the night Life is short, but this time it was bigger She put him out like the burnin' end of a midnight cigarette She broke his heart, he spent his whole life tryin' to forget We watched him drink his pain away a little at a time But he never could

Don't blame me Hear my story and listen well; Truth is in all that I tell It could never have been me I did not shoot no deputy Mr Grant, the deputy, Friend to my whole family He always tell me when John Brown Was getting ready to come around

Wake me up when September ends Summer has come and passed The innocent can never last Here comes the rain again Falling from the stars Drenched in my pain again Becoming who we are As my memory rests But never forgets what I lost

I see who you are and who else can compare I meant what I said I promised to stand by your side Until the end That's where we begin From here to eternity We begin understanding It is our hearts that define What has meaning in life

Who run the world? Who run this motha? Girls, we run this motha, yeah Who are we? Hope you still like me "F" you pay me My persuasion can build a nation Endless power

We own the night When we are together its the time of our lives We can do whatever, be whoever we'd like Don't have to worry about nothing We own the night! (ah-ah-oh) Spend the weekend dancing 'cause when we sleep when we die We own the night!

Dance, baby, dance, like the world is ending This is who you are Sit back and look for the warnings Baby walkin' around with your head cut off Let's start today Dance, baby, 'cause, like the world is ending The queen's heart So we pray and we pray

Who'd believe with the way things are here We'd be going anywhere telling people how to live? Who's believe we'd spend more shippin' drugs and guns Than to educate our sons? Sorry but that's what they did I can't help but think, Someone's forsaken you

Who do we think we are? Baby, tell me, who do we think we are? Here we are, in the air, barely breathing And we're not afraid to die Tell me, who do we think we are? We can't run out of magic It's the only way we know Let's trip the night fantastic Light

Words cut like blades to the skin We are who we are From beginning to end How must you feel up there So exalted, it's like a hardy attitude Know ones inferior To your ones words within the script After it's so you have a footing To thoughts you do not