March 5, 2011

• What It’s Like

  We’ve all seen a man at the liquor store beggin’ for your change
  The hair on his face is dirty, dread-locked, and full of main
  He asks a man for what he could spare, with shame in his eyes
  “Get a job you fucking slob,” is all he replies
  God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in his shoes
  Cause then you really might know what its like to sing the blues

  Chorus
  Then you really might know what its like…
  Then you really might know what its like…
  Then you really might know what its like…
  Then you really might know what its like…

  Mary got pregnant from a kid named Tom that said he was in love
  He said, “Don’t worry about a thing, baby doll
  I’m the man you’ve been dreaming of.”
  But 3 months later he say he wont date her or return her calls
  And she swear, “God damn, if I find that man I’m cuttin’ off his balls.”
  And then she heads for the clinic and
  she gets some static walking through the door
  They call her a killer, and they call her a sinner
  and they call her a whore
  God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in her shoes
  Cause then you really might know what its like to have to choose

  Chorus

  Ive seen a rich man beg
  Ive seen a good man sin
  Ive seen a tough man cry
  Ive seen a loser win
  And a sad man grin
  I heard an honest man lie
  Ive seen the good side of bad
  And the downside of up
  And everything between
  I licked the silver spoon
  Drank from the golden cup
  And smoked the finest green
  I stroked the fattest dimes at least a couple of times
  before i broke their heart
  You know where it ends, yo, it usually depends on where you start

  I knew this kid named Max
  who used to get fat stacks out on the corner with drugs
  He liked to hang out late
  he liked to get shit-faced and keep the pace with thugs
  Until late one night there was a big old fight and Max lost his head
  He pulled out his chrome .45, talked some shit, and wound up dead
  Now his wife and his kids are caught in the midst of all of this pain
  You know it comes that way
  at least that’s what they say when you play the game
  God forbid you ever had to wake up to hear the news
  Cause then you really might know what its like to have to lose

  Then you really might know what its like…
  Then you really might know what its like…
  Then you really might know what its like…to have to lose

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