You're like silver, you're like gold Baby, when you're down, baby, when you're way down Lost your shine and your feet are cold You don't have to stay down, you don't have to stay down Hangin' out with the scarecrow blues On the other side of being used

Oh why, children send your child off to die In the streets of chalk where they lie Let no wrongs cry out when thugs cry Dear God (When thugs cry) Oh why, does it have to be this way, our Children of today won't stay wise (thugs cry) Let the children hear

Some of them supposed to go, some of them supposed to stay I ain't tryna ruin yours, I'm tryna make a way, yeah I be at the top, that's my favorite place That money gonna come, I don't gotta chase it Them bitches gonna come, I don't gotta chase em I'ma

Let the music come and take us over Let me pull you in a little bit closer, Baby close your eyes why don't we just Stay right here in the moment, I wanna feel you movin' nice and slow yeah When there's nothin' words can say, Come on outside I got

All your excuses, they're always in the way Do you think that I'm stupid, make a new one everyday But you can't lie, girl I ain't blind If love is just a game you play, well then you're losin' Always stayin' out late, get off at 8 But you come to door at

On the first light of the day you march on Departure has arrived, don't look back Avoid the darkness, stay away, stay out of sight Until you feel the blast of a shooting star Following the spark like a rocket in the sky Between the bear and the scorpion,

Low down leaving sun, I've done Did everything that needs done Woe is me, why can't I see I'D best be leaving well enough alone Them neon light nights, couldn't stay out of fights Them keep a-haunting me in memories There's one in every crowd, for crying

I guess I'll never learn Cause I stay another hour or two You know I can't be found with you We get back to my house Your arms, my mouth Now I just stop myself around you A soft sound To the way she wears her hair down Covering up her face

'Cause we got all night Why don't you stay Why don't we go there? Let's take a ride Out in the cold air I know the way, why don't you go there with me? And we're going nowhere I know you want, know you wanna take it slow Think about all the places we

And I saw God cry in the reflection of my enemies And all the lovers with no time for me And all of the mothers raise their babies To stay away from me How cruel is the golden rule When the lives we lived are only golden-plated? And I knew that the