His mama told him "someday you will be a man And you will be the leader of a big old band Many people coming from miles around To hear your playing music when the sun goes down Maybe someday you name will be in lights saying "Johnny B. Good tonight" Deep

But somebody's gonna have to answer The time is coming soon Why do the babies starve When there's enough food to feed the world Why when there are so many of us Are there people still alone Why are the missiles called peace keepers When they're aimed to

We were getting high Where were you while we were getting high? Someday you will find me Caught beneath the landslide How many special people change? How many lives are living strange? Slowly walking down the hall Faster than a cannonball In a champagne

I'm going big, suck my dick Too many niggas, not enough hoes And some of you niggas, acting like hoes I know a lot of people that smile in my face But talk behind my back every time I'm gone So when they call my number, I don't never pick up I don't owe

Pray that all is forgotten Lay to rest Bury the dead Tomorrow seems to turn so fast Alone in the boiler meltin' me down Ain't the first, won't be the last So many people all at once Who I once was has died Never feel the ills of breakin' down

I used to have so many friends Me and them went different ways Some man wanna drink and party Me and them got different aims And as soon as you cut man out People say that you changed Nothing changed here Same player, different game I've had people try

On the news tonight Well mama said It's just make believe You can't believe everything you see So baby close your eyes to the lullabies A billion people died on the news tonight But not so many cried at the terrible sight Who's the one to decide that it

I grew up with a lot of love in a happy home Mama called about the paper turns out they wrote about me Now my broken heart's the only thing that's broke about me So many people should have seen what we got going on I only wanna put my heart and my life

How Is There Going To Be Peace When There Is No Justice, Oh No, Oh Someone Is Taking More Than Their Share Of The Bounties Of This Land And That´s Not Fair So Little People Got More Than They Need While There´s So Many Hungry Mounths In The World To Feed

Don't look back to the days of yesteryear, You cannot live on in the past, Don't look back. And I've known so many people That still try to live on in the past, Don't look back, oh no. And if I could call back all those days of yesteryear, I would never