Lead pipe slammed in the storekeepers head Looks like spaghetti decomposin' in bed Please don't shoot, God think of my kids You shut your yap ya dirty
Honor was not just a word To knights of old who pledged their faith In love over gold, love over gold Now, they laughed at his fantasy world And maximized
street Kids on the street Kids on the street Kids on the street...yeah Oh, the kids on the street Oh, the kids on the street Oh, the kids on the street
' on my feet after all The times you knocked me down Went back to see the place where I came from And I began to understand my pride From the brick streets
Buried in a field of crosses the ghost of an American son Seventeen at Vicksburg when he heard the thunder of the guns and his friends were all there
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Thrilla in Manila, Frazier and Ali Can of olives bag of chips a case of Genosee Daddy's unemployment check is all we got I need a long sleeve helmet just
in my room of blue Eyes of green mystery. Transmissions I loved the way you moved I feel all right yeah I'm okay sixteen stories above the street Shiva
Thought I was strong it turned out I was wrong I lost a friend Three on a match again Three on a match again Looks like I lost a friend I'll never go
All systems were go as the spaceship left Detroit with Plant X-17 as our destination tonight The craft hit some mystery turbulence and we heard a sort
Hurt your pride staggered into bed And fell asleep by your side Gone all night numbing my brutality You sleep with your back to mine Vanity fair, vanity