I've been a bad, bad girl ...I've been careless wi...When a girl will break a boy ju...Don't you tell me to deny it ...I've done wrong and I want to suffer for ...I've come to you 'cause I need guidance to be...And I just don't know where I can begin ...What I need is a good defe...'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal ...And I need to be redeemed...To the one I've sinned against ...Because he's all I ever knew of love ...Heaven help me for the way I am ...Save me from these evil deeds before I get them done ...I know tomorrow bring...But I keep living this day like the next will never come ...Oh help me but don't tell me to deny it ...I've got to cleanse myself of all these lies 'till I'm good enough for h...I've got a lot to lose and I'm bettin' high so I'm begging you ...Before it ends just tell me where to begin ...What I need is a good defe...'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal ...And I need to be redeemed...To the one I've sinned against ...Because he's all I ever knew of love ...Let me know the way ...Before there's hell to pay...Give me room to lay the law and let me go ...I've got to make a pl...ld an angel say the devil wants to know ...What I need is a good defe...'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal ...And I need to be redeemed...To the one I've sinned against ...Because he's all I ever knew of love ...What I need is a good defe...'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal ...And I need to be redeemed...To the one I've sinned against ...Because he's all I ever knew of love

It's like root beer one of a ...Spice 1 is up in the house with the ... fuckas try ta play me yet they callin' me they nigga ...Should I get the A.K. and jump like Jack ...Or should I just reanimate the ...ame is Spice 1, but I be comin' like I'm 2 ...If you think it's sick the...I'm quick ta bust a c...Cause livin' up in the bay is lke a mu... because my mouth's in penitentiary ... back to the ghetto you see just about it a...Rest in peace to dead nigga...The shit it never stop because the ni...ock around the road in every ghetto ...want to drop me, so I'm livin' like the Devil ...And before I end this rhyme ...I'd like ta say peace to my ...th some niggas that I didn't know ...I wonder why he'd want to play me like a punk bitch ...I thought he knew I was the one to let ...I played his ass like Jesse James and shot him in the throat ...I picked his tongue up out my mail, now I'm outty ho ...I'm stressin' it's a ...I think about the shit that I used to see ...I'll load the clip an...I'm stressed out like a mutha fucka ...Bitch got me for a 20, damn cluc...Yeah your right I'm livin' wrong "G" ...And I never gave a fuck about a...I seen a dope fiend k... a bloody base pipe in the street ... burnt the bitch up in the trunk over 80 d...around the hood and I can hear her hollar...I'm hearin' shots rin...full of dead niggas in the midnight ...And before I end this rhyme ...I'd like ta say peace to my ...e police was comin' I had ta dump the bod...But like I said on the city streets I'm John Gotti ...I do a drive-by murde...See I'm a rebel without a...Cause in my neighborhood you learn not to walk ...without a nine in your draws ...It's like American Express ...ealous mutha fuckas never sleep ...I'm gettin' C.B. bann...a, nigga to the rim like brim ...Do a drive-by while I'm suckin' on a Endo...I'm high as fuck, fuc...ard as a nickel but I'm quick as fuck to ... want to squab it's like that ...Cause I ain't goin' out like a fag ...Now I'm gettin' rich off ...over keyes over g's I stack ...So when you step, step with cau...The S-P-I-see-E ...In a rage with a gauge gettin' P-A-I-D ...I ain't goin' out fuc...I'd rather pimp hoes ...So before I end this rhyme ...I'd like to say, Peace to my...I want to say peace t...I want to say what up...I want to say what up to that girl Shorty be in the mutha fuckin' h...187 in the mutha fuckin' h

In town [Repeat; x 3] ...Something in the way of things ...Something you know but can't stan...Like death ...Like they were yourself ...The dead guy you saw me talking to is your ...I tried to put a spel...I know things you know and nothing you don't know ...'cept I saw something in the way of things ...mething grinning at me and I wanted to know, was...o funny it followed me down the street ...Greeting everybody like the good humor man ...It was like dat ...Me talking across peop...ngs crowding around me with ice picks ...You could see them ...But they looked like important Negroes o...Looked like important jiggaboos...I can see something in the way of our selv...I can see something in the way of our selv...That's why I say the things I do, you know it ...s something else to you ...Like that job ...This morning when you got there and it wa...earning soft behind you ...My mistake is I kept sayin' "that w...And you told me, "nah, it was proof that the devil do" ...But still, its like I see something I hear things ...I saw words in the white boy's lyi...m dreams walk which you 'cross town ...reet that's tellin' you you ain't shit ...And you almost believe it ...You know some of the wo...n but ain't nothin' you can see ...But I see something in the way of things ...I see something and f...Like and ugly thing floa...You see it and hear it ...But you say it got a right to exist just like you and if God made it ...You seen what I see too? ...You see something too b...But that last time before he got locked up an...I seen him walkin' to...But I knew he'd seen something...Something in the way of things that it worked on him like it do in will ...And never even muttered a wor...You want to know what ...You want to know what I'm talkin' about ...Sayin' "I seen something in the way of things" ...ooked that day just before they took him away ...The is? in that face and remem...all the many places you've seen him or the ...Remember what you seen in your own mirror and...Open your mouth like you was gon' say someth...s and remember what you saw and what it made you feel like ...Now, don't you see something else ...that smiled and the girl he went with ...And in my eyes too ...I seen something ...I SEEN something ...And you seen it too ...You seen it too ...You just can't call it'

cicle that took off like a gun ...Well, he never washed his face and he never combed his hair ...art saying "Mother, I love you" ...he treated her just like he treated all the ...d her and everybody knew ...cicle that took off like a gun ...She said "I've got a feeling if you ride tonight I'll grieve" ...her tears were shed in vain and her every ...In the rumble of an en...Then he took off like the Devil and there was fire in his eyes!! He ...Said "I'll go a thousand miles before the sun can rise." ...cicle that took off like a gun ...And they never found the terror of

cicle that took off like a gun ...Well, he never washed his face and he never combed his hair ...eart saying mother, I love you ...he treated her just like he treated all the ...d her and everybody knew ...cicle that took off like a gun ...She said I've got a feeling if you ride tonight I'll grieve ...her tears were shed in vain and her every ...In the rumble of an In...en then he took off like the devil and there was fire in his eyes ...Said I'll go a thousand miles before the sun can rise. b...cicle that took off like a gun ...And they never found the terror of

I've got a little girl, though I know it won't be lo...Before she finds another b...It feels like there's no safe pla...In a world that's come...Wakes you up with a start ...change the rules so I win ...All I need is an escape ...When she's coming in the door when she's...lief when she comes in ...And I stand with the timid waiting for the devil ...To make a martyr of me ...If we only knew where to go ...I hope that we'd alre...'re lying together, I make sure she falls...So do I fall asleep and dream of a peace that never will come ...Or do I roll over and let h