Hey, hey what can I say I grew up in the heartland USA I sing it loud and proud and I make a lotta noise I'm an all-American middle class white boy We wasn't rich but we wasn't poor Lived on a cul-de-sac 'til my parents divorced I drove a hand-me-down

You wanna know how I get down, you wanna know how I get down? You wonder how I'm the best and can do all this with my mouth I love to lick the middle like an Oreo (turn up) Oreo, Oreo, like an Oreo I wanna bite it, and get inside it ('til I get you gone)

Everybody get down Watch it get down, watch it get down Oh that girl is murder Under the lights and sound Everybody get down, down You know that she's a killer And I'll be down and throw it at that level Walking around middle of the night

Hear me now Words I vow No fucking regrets Fuck these chains No god damn slave I will be different I'll stand here defiantly My middle finger raised Fuck your prejudice

I am the city Somewhere in the middle of the never ending noise There is a constant steady rhythm of a heart that beats The skyline is me and the energy I'm the street you walk The language you talk The famous hotels and the cocktail bars And the funny

One hand in the air, if he don't really care Two hands in the air, if he don't really care It's like that sometimes, I mean ridiculous It's like that sometimes, the shit ridiculous Middle Finger in the air, if you don't really care It's like that

Money in your palm don't make you real Pistol in your hand don't make you real Niggas been countin' me out I'm writin' down names, I'm makin' a list The real ones been dyin', the fake ones is lit The Bentley is dirty, my sneakers is dirty But that's how

I know I'm gettin' hooked on your love Talkin' to myself, runnin' in the heat Beggin' for your touch in the middle Of the street and I -- I can't stop thinking 'bout you girl I must be living in a fantasy world I've searched the whole world over To find

Boy, you gotta carry that weight Carry that weight a long time Boy, you gonna carry that weight I never give you my pillow I only send you my invitation And in the middle of the celebrations I break down You're gonna carry that weight along time

In the middle of the night So when I call you in the middle of the night And I'm choking on the words 'cause I miss you Baby, don't tell me I'm out of time How you slipped through my hands I got so much of my loving to give you I keep coming back to that