(Come on) Sing with me, (Sing), sing for the years (Sing it) Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears (Come on) Sing it with me, just for today, Maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away These ideas are nightmares to white parents Whose worst fear

You can't take my youth away This soul of mine will never break As long as I wake up today Pain, but I won't let it turn into hate No, I won't let it change me Here I am, stuck on this couch Scrolling through my notes Heart was broken, still not growing,

The clock is ticking, so stay All you have to do is stay All you have to do is stay a minute Just take your time All you have to do is wait a second Your hands on mine I could give a thousand reasons why We can stay forever young Living on my sofa,

I'm on my way back home Take the hand Guide the way Find the truth Take your heart into your hand To tempt the fool into the mine Let loose the snake with antidote

It's real and this here is all mine Dim the lights and we still gon' shine (gon' shine) So we turned nothing into something and we still got time (turn up) Take the wheel and we still gon' ride (keep ridin') For a lifetime, lifetime, yeah Lifetime,

Don't cry, just ask why, and try not to die As I take you through a ghetto nigga's lullabye The only way, for me to come back, is by makaveli That's it! all these motherfuckers stole from me I'm takin' back what's mine Laughing you motherfuckers can't

Tie my right hand to the bible You can burn your paper fingers in the ashtray Place your swollen lips on mine You can shave your heavy head in my carpeted hallway Sure for the first time you're wearing the right clothes Now take them off Meet me on the

You can't always see me But you know that I'm always there When you see one shining Take it as mine And remember I'm always near If you see a comet Baby I'm on it Making my way back home It won't be long

Meet Eddie, twenty-three years old Fed up with life and the way things are going He decides to rob a liquor store (I can't take this no more, I can't take it no more homes) But on his way in, he has a sudden change of heart And suddenly, his conscience

Idaho oh Idaho All that love all those mistakes What else can a poor man make? So I gave up a life of crime I gave it to a friend of mine Something else was on my mind The only ghost I'm haunted by I hear her howling down below Wolves oh wolves oh can't