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out
Do they hit me up 'cuz they love me or for the clout
Guess I'll never know, I can drown or live in a drought
Out out out
Guess this is a different

house
Before it gets too late
By the oak trees where we used to play
Shake hands with a stranger
Nothing much to say
As the evening light begins to fade

drive Topanga anymore
'Cause it reminds me of you
Smoking and singing love songs in the garden
Like we always used to
And I drive by, I turn my eyes

stalling
Because nothing is simple anymore
I'm a poem you penned, a stranger to a friend
A tourist in the town I was born
& are you still out there waiting?

& between floorboards
enough skin to fill houses
	it weaves through the cracks in the doors
it wedges between the hinges & the opening mechanism
leave a glass

Im on the top floor, used to blow that smoke in the basement
Im on the top floor, made it from a slow operation
On the block poor, selling

Just Business

Defari

Bomb Worldwide

1997

happen to me it's a bad day black?" 
Walk into your house and enter a hijack 
Skimask in your face run the combination to your safe quickly 
Feel

with you or not
By my side
By my side
Countless nights, all alone
Eyes wide open, strangers unknown
Safe house, it went up in flames
Empty shadows now I

the Gospel of John.
Yes, the Lord's my shepherd.
What could be better?
And my home is a mansion in His house forever.
Cool!
Death ain't nothing, so I'll not be

the Gospel of John.
Yes, the Lord's my shepherd.
What could be better?
And my home is a mansion in His house forever.
Cool!
Death ain't nothing, so I'll not be

Into some kind of static, ghost-ridden smokescreen My mother, my father
Though time made us strangers
I'm a child in your house
And I'm grateful for my

heavy
For any to carry

My father and I drifted apart
We became strangers in a house plagued by anger
So I rode to that sidewalk and prayed to belong

back to bed

There in a clearing was a house all strung with lights
We landed softly and he welcomed us inside
He headed for his workshop as we

there in five
We tiptoed through the house so quietly
Doesn't matter 'cause tonight it's only her and me
lets take it slow she said but the ways she moves

they tell you not to talk to strangers They tell you don't let them into your car
But all I want is a ride through Alberta Hey mister, are you going that

sits down by the brook
Find a hole to peer through
See a jacket there on a hook

I fault, I freeze
There's a person in front of me
On hay, he sleeps
I've

(instrumental riff)

WOKE UP ON THE SOFA IN A STRANGERS HOUSE,
WITH WALNUT LUNGS AND A COTTON MOUTH,
THE EVENTS OF THE PREVIOUS NIGHT COME BACK TO ME,
ONE BY ONE,

(instrumental riff)

WOKE UP ON THE SOFA IN A STRANGERS HOUSE,
WITH WALNUT LUNGS AND A COTTON MOUTH,
THE EVENTS OF THE PREVIOUS NIGHT COME BACK TO ME,
ONE BY ONE,

The dark streets are empty, they wander about

Lonely boy left his house half past midnight
Looking for answers to start his respite
Thinking of what made

CARRYING A GUN...

(instrumental riff)

WOKE UP ON THE SOFA IN A STRANGERS HOUSE,
WITH WALNUT LUNGS AND A COTTON MOUTH,
THE EVENTS OF THE PREVIOUS

and blue wasn't he banging the 5
They was taking shots at you but you hang with em now
You a stranger in the streets yo name don't ring one bell
Keep that

ya captain saver to come save ya
But you're not in danger cause I'm not a stranger
I just came for one night to entertain ya
Came to your crib I know

the real guy 
Guess I'm hiding my true person 
Cause on the inside 
I'm trying crying dying to be perfect 
Working towards a brighter tomorrow 
In the simple

I think it's finally sinking in
There's nothing left for me in this
I'm tired of living with these ghosts
We share the house, but we were never close