- A Setup
Johnny never went to college.
He couldn't afford the fee.
He got lucky; he had an uncle who worked for NBC.
Now Johnny's taking for people who shop from the TV
Mostly wealthy housewives who buy expensive jewerly.
"It's a setup, to keep you down. They set up you, then knock you"
- All That You Have Is Still Not Enough
Basicly I was just born bastard, long for green pastures
I am a pheonix, I was born from the ashes
The forms you take in the storm is what you makes strong
Anybody could perfrom like a charm when the waters calm
Ya'll don't know nathan 'bout the things I've been faced with
Can ya'll relate how I came from the basement?
I make the music and the same time faced it
I've been so close to my dreams I can taste it
- Baptism
the day is mine, the night is also mine.
thou hast set all the borders of this earth.
but i've never been one to believe in the preconceived limit
that's set for me. i'll spit in the face of the haters as i march
closer to victory.
and my time is here. my time
and my time is now.
- In The Heart Of Wolves
there can be no mercy in the heart of wolves
there can be no shelter in the eye of the storm
cast into the flames to burn and to die and burn
but instead i found comfort in it's core
unscathed. i chose the road that's unpaved.
unfazed. i laid in the bed that i made.
through rain or shine or rise or fall i won't fall short
- Nothanx
Stay focused son and it will be all right. Although I must admit life is trite but that's all right. Keep moving on and try to
keep your mind occupied. No sense in stressing, though it hurts, memories won't die. A tear falls under a blood red sky. Close
your eyes, if you want to die, True people represent when times get difficult. Think about who's looking out. No you can't tell
me no. I grab what I can't have ... I take. I don't need your help. I knew it. I saw that shit way back when, things were
different then, all the promises and such and such. I didn't know much. You thought. I don't need your help. I help myself kid.
Life was never easy on my Mom Duke's, raising up two youths, with no loot and no future to boot. But she got it done, with out
help of anyone she got it done.
- So Many Nights
so many nights i prayed that this would just stop.
awoke out of my sleep by a sound of a popped lock
my heart would drop to the ground, maybe the fact that my
pops wasn't around forced you to found these guys that would
just knocked you down or beat you around.
i don't know. my innocence was lost back then not to be found
and in a sense its like this world was just weighing me down,
leaning it's weight hard on my shoulders.
- There Goes The Neighborhood
There goes the neighborhood.
Here come them fuckin' wiggers
With those fancy cars.
Who gave them fuckin' wiggers
Those rock guitars?
Who let 'em in the club?
Did you make 'em pay?