Your former you That stranger in the mirror Oh, that's you Why'd you look so blue? Now you're just a shallow In the morning on the train You sit and stare at the rain Or bury yourself in your books Don't look at no strangers

Lady, I'm your knight in shining armor and I love you You have made me what I am and I am yours My love, there's so many ways I want to say "I love you" Let me hold you in my arms forever more You have gone and made me such a fool I'm so lost in your

When sorrow sang softly and sweet So let me out of it Out of the cold To bring back light and hope for all And so if I could get you in Just for a little while Into the songs of sorrow You might understand Where am I now

I'll play the blues for you If you're down and out and you feel real hurt Come on over to the place where I live And all your loneliness I'll try to soothe Don't be afraid come on in You might run across some of your old friends All your loneliness I

My heart beats for love It's the sound that I hear, tells me not to give up It breathes in my chest and It runs through my blood Whoa ooh oh oh oh yeah I'm screaming out, can you hear me now? I've been stranded on a lonely street Got lost in the shadows

Through the sunshine and the rain Through the good times and the pain And havin' the courage to change For never stayin' the same Thank you, thank you For lettin' me speak my mind And puttin' it all on the line North Carolina

I wish you peace when times are hard I wish you peace when the cold winds blow Warmed by the fire's glow I wish you comfort in the, the lonely time And arms to hold you when you ache inside I wish you hope when things are going bad Kind words when times

Make me feel The way you make me feel I could stand here forever There's nothing else this real Six o'clock again The night is at an end In the quietness Into your love, I feel When the winter's gone

Gold on my big nine, now I'm finna shoot to kill If you bustas slippin', it's this .50 finna do the deal For war, we pray 7th Ward, the grave Straight out of hell Ring the bells Plague is here to stay Roaches and locusts they cover me knowing they'll

And you never knew my name You cut your teeth on the lack of answers, singing Come back home and it don't feel the same Well I've bled words onto a page for you Didn't I warn you not to? Didn't I warn you good? Maybe we couldn't help it Maybe we never