Not a night goes by, I don't dream of wandering Through the home that might have been I listened to my pride when my heart cried out for you Now every day I wake again In a house that might have been a home, a home I mistook the warnings for wisdom From

Yeah yeah yeah Hold the fuck up We gonna take this little intermission to listen To what the fuck I got to say, you know I been doing this shit for years: Holding heat, selling Using, abusing all kinds of drugs; Robbing niggas, running up in niggas'

Standing in front of you Take a breath and listen (listen) Open up stop wishin' (wishin') All that you've been missin' (missin') Everything you're fearin' (fearin') All the walls you're buildin' (buildin') Take a chance you're reason (reason) You say

Don't blame me Hear my story and listen well; Truth is in all that I tell It could never have been me I did not shoot no deputy Mr Grant, the deputy, Friend to my whole family He always tell me when John Brown Was getting ready to come around

Not a night goes by, I don't dream of wandering Through the home that might have been I listened to my pride when my heart cried out for you Now every day I wake again In a house that might have been a home, a home I mistook the warnings for wisdom From

You ain't gotta change, I do, I do Playing all the games I do, I do, I do I'm willing to change for you, it's true, so true 'Cause you ain't gotta change, I do, I do Listen, you gotta stop blaming yourself It's been your heart, been on my mind I'll take

My song of the end Take him back to Avalon Oh, I haven't been here for a while In blindness and decay The circle's been closed, now I've seen it all Listen crowd I'll tell you everything Though I have to say

My song of the end Take him back to Avalon Oh, I haven't been here for a while In blindness and decay The circle's been closed, now I've seen it all Listen crowd I'll tell you everything Though I have to say

Mama been laid off Papa been laid off Billy can't get a job Don't let them stay home and listen to the blues My brother's been laid off For more than two years now Ooh can't get a job Ooh they gotta listen to the blues Help them to strive

Dependency has been a thief at night Thief at night, thief at night Underneath this fragile frame Lives a battle between pride and shame But I’ve misplaced that sense of fight But listen closely as I testify Every time I walk away and try to leave it