Throw your suitcase in the back Done gassed up the Pontiac Blastin' out to Johnny Cash Headin' for the highway Baby, we ain't ever comin' back What ya got? Quit my job, flipped off the boss, took my name off the payroll Screw you, man

You better come on in my kitchen Babe, it's goin' to be rainin' outdoors Ah, the woman I love took from my best friend Some joker got lucky stole her back again Baby, it's goin' to be rainin' outdoors Oh-ah, she's gone I know she won't come back I've

These streets took my conscience All the finer things, designer jeans, I'm getting paid Yeah, Project Baby Sniper Gang Yeah, everybody with me on that same thang I don't gang-bang but I bang bang I pull up to the club, I got on eight chains Took that

A gypsy driftin' down the road I learned quick my eighteenth summer Diggin' ditches for the man You can't be a guitar strummer Cussin' that shovel in your hand Took my paycheck to a pawn shop Bought a silverstone guitar Wrote a song about a beer joint

I want you I need you I gotta be near you I spent my money as I took my turn There once was a woman A strange kind of woman The kind that gets written down in history Her name was Nancy Her face was nothing fancy She left a trail of happiness and misery

My destination, my mission, my intuition So close I feel it changing me False affection took the best of me Deep inside, the absent mind Denial and hypocrisy All the same To do this we part our ways Suddenly I know, I have to let it go All that's been

Don't remember where I was I realized life was a game The more seriously I took things The harder the rules became I had no idea what it'd cost My life passed before my eyes I found out how little I accomplished All my plans tonight So as you read this

Fool that I am, For falling in love with you. And a, fool that I am, For thinking you loved me, too. You took my heart, Then played the part of little coquette. And, all my dreams just disappeared Like the smoke from a cigarette. For hoping you'd

The elusive mystery Determined by the stars The fear is real The truth is real The stigma is valid, truth and fear It will set us free It took my Pa I stand in deliverance

Since I fell for you When you just give love And never get love You'd better let love depart I know it's so, and yet I know I can't get you out of my heart You made me leave my happy home You took my love and now you're gone Love brings such misery and