. And, um, I'm not on crack, I don't do d... I'm from the other side of town ... The place where the only skin you see is the color brown ... The sun never shines in this place where... People I see on TV, in there towns live the good life ...chool, they call me the bum from the slum ... The way I see things, l... So I never learned how to shar... On the other side of town ... I live on the other side of town ...on't mind as I tell the whole story ...in life like fun in the sun ...mfort in talks from the President ... So put back on Cosby ... Some say I never try, but why are th... I'll never get ahead; my raps ... I'm livin on Wonder Bread with h... I'm not on the drug scene; they ca... Workin in the hospital ...Yo, send her ass to the morgue ... But on the other side of town ... The other side of town ...are in so many ways the same ... The truth is bare, and ...y mind right now is on the brink of breakin ...think I'll stick up the store with the Arab guy ... Then I could drive the same car he does ... The life of a poor man ... A piece of the pie ... Cause tomorrow's the other side of town ... The other side of town ... The other side of town

t been a year since the last time I've seen...And the ocean of liquor I d...My poor heart is breakin' b...In a place where the sun never shines

's a guitar leaning on a Marshall stack ...Used to sound like the sun on the horizon ... girl screaming all the way in the back ...Poor kid, she never saw it coming ...Watching the label spinning on my turntable ...And every star that shines in the back of my mind ...rats can't give you the facts ...hat every star that shines in the back of your mind ...Flashing the badges, just like the law of averages ...ery star that hides on the back of the bus

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