No no they can't take that away from me No they can't take that away from me We may never never meet again On the bumpy road to love Still I'll always, always keep the memory of The way you hold your knife The way we danced till three The way you wear

My homie booked He said he going through some things right now I tried to tell him hold his head, don't let 'em bring you down They used to love him in the streets But they don't know him now Plus his baby ma, she trippin', she don't hold him down And he

All I got is nothing but A little bit of love and gonna Give it to the people then they'll See, then they'll see Rolling around like a big rubber ball Writing this song about some things that I saw Trying to stand like a big strong tough man Finding out

I do and I don't, well I do and I don't, oh yeah Everything they said about everything Was a coming undone it's a life supreme Feasting on the flowers so fast and young It's a light so bright that I bite my tongue The next dimension, show me in Like she

They're proud of me Now I can hold my heart in a fist And all the voices leave I can finally put it on my sleeve Oh, if only they'd really seen it Maybe they would finally believe me When I say I've won She's proud of me She's proud of

When I reminisce about all those years of tribulation, I mostly remember Our songs. We died, and our blood seeped away on the battlefields; but our Songs survived, together with those of us that returned. And as they too Will die one day, our songs will

First time was down by the river Don't stop, darling they're just rain drops The moonlight was all around Our breath, the only sound Baby, darling she said take me And drive me crazy Our sweat made both us shiver She was pretty, about seventeen When she

Some lessons we learn the hard way Well why do the hands of time So easily unwind Some lessons don't come easy That's the price we have to pay They don't come right off and right easy That's why they say some lessons learned we learn the hard way Well

They say quitters never win There's a world outside of my front door That gets off on being down We only want to sing you to sleep But we walk the plank on a sinking ship Whoa, oh, oh, oh We need umbrellas on the inside A penny for your thoughts, but a

Bitch, you gon' die, hoe They be actin' for a fuckin' bitch I'm 'bout to shoot this bitch Out of the way kids Bitch, I smoked crack, now I count fucking racks Back to the smack, lickin' the powder bags Back on my bullshit, white bands, scoof it Three in