We want the funk Bitch where you when I was walkin'? Now I run the game got the whole world talkin', King Kunta Black man taking no losses Everybody wanna cut the legs off him (Now if I give you the funk, you gon' take it) Everybody wanna cut the legs

Where I have nothing Room to breathe Fearless and whole Find out what you are Back in time I need this

Talking to the moon In hopes you're on The other side Talking to me too Or am I a fool Who sits alone I know you're somewhere out there Somewhere far away I want you back

Everything stops where the pavement ends. You can get you a buzz, blame it on the radio. Find a lighter, live a little high. Take it all in, let the good times roll. And on a clear night, Who needs the headlights? Drop it in low, drive by the moonlight.

If you don't like where we're going Then you won't like what's coming next What will we look like? In a post American world Why cower to all those Who oppose the American world? We see each other through different eyes Segregating ourselves by class and

And I want you to be my acrobat, I want you to be my lover Oh there were others who would treat you cruel Stepped into my life from a bad dream Oh little Jeannie, you got so much love, little Jeannie And you take it where it strikes and give it to the

'Cause everywhere we go girl, you're the star of the show And everybody's wondering and wanting to know What's your name, who's that girl Oh, what gets me the most is you don't even know With the prettiest smile in the world? That you are, you are, you

And that sun is shinin' down On all my darker days They're comin' to me now As I hear the preacher say In the name of the Son and the Father Got a whole lot of years And a whole lot of pain And it all got me here Where the river meets the clay

Way down south, where the mangroves grow Deep in the swamp down in the Bayou There's a little story that's never been told About a pretty widow who never grows old And how she buried her soul with her wedding ring Traded it off for that voodoo thing She

They poured across the borders We were cautioned to surrender This I could not do Into the hills I vanished No one ever asks me Who I am or where I'm going But those of you who know You cover up my footprints I have changed my name so often