/ The dude, the man, the myth, the shit, the fix/ Is all intertwined to make sense of this/ Rape the rich and give it all to the poor/ Down on Howard St., wine-housin with whores/ My sanity, my vanity, the things I’ve lost with time/ The friends, the ends, the green, the scene with lines/ The time just seems to float away with Mary/ Man said Cuz, cause of her life ain’t as scary/ Said dog, it’s just life, why you seem so wary/ He said, It’s life young man, you seen the scars she carry?/Politicians, commissions, the whole judicial system/ Most our for themselves, and that’s why we don’t listen/ Christians are christened but the reverend don’t listen/ With my ten percent, he’s at the strip club tippin’/ Why I look at God, and ask why do I do it?/ I’d rather be with you, why even put me through it?/ Down here with these leaders that are so translucent/ Man so see through, put my whole hand through him/

/Nicotine stained, from the mill hills to main/ Debris covers the street, men quest for their flame/ Invest change for lotto tickets and blunts/ Herald-Journal and couple zones for the front/ Cops skim off the top, family members get knocked/ Heard Uncle got popped and did a dime on the block/ Got out shell-shocked, went straight to the rock/ I thought he knew the time but wouldn’t look at the clock/ Jobs bout as scarce as a good lookin dyke/ Dreams hang and fall just like a flimsy kite/ Couple friends move white, be out all night/ Sheriff soothe-sayin, sees them as a plight/ Idolized those guys, bein one was my father/ O.C.’s and Coke were of what he would barter/ Every town’s built on the misery of others/ You a pusher or junkie, either one or the other/