Night falls when we leave all you feel is the hunger
 Suprises people of all shapes and sizes
 Dig on the decade and realize it's funky
 No matter this rude boy still got that swagger
 My ears have heard all these crews but we're badder
 Interracial  special  positive beings
 I am  I be a cool awakening
 It's gettin hectic the metrics the body electric
 Everybody in worn out blue jeans or tacky dresses
 This is the city we've reached, we've come to
 Go unrecognized on the corner or make moves
 All the lights are red all the poets dead
 A familiar nightmare appears in my head
 Times are changin' myself I'm rearrangin'
 Dream eight-thousand-five-twelve all blazin'

 Born to act out
 Paranoid with a gat
 Born to act out
 You think you know where it's at
 Born to act out
 But you're lookin' like a sissie
 Born to act out
 Guns are for pussies

 I'm not from Philly but some say I'm blunt
 That's just the way I am, and no, I'm not gonna front
 And yes, I took a trip to find out about the ways of big city
 Seedy bars and drugs that make you feel shitty
 Pretty older women in skirts, conversation frisky
 Stinking cigarettes and plenty of bourbon whiskey
 Sad classic music on the jukebox of doom
 Hollywood Blvd. barfly frolic room
 Tomb of lost souls some beyond salvage
 Some just having fun opening steam valvage
 I was one becoming the other hellbent to discover
 Had to pull up the reigns or else smother, take it brother
 All the way and then you're scared, don't want to be unprepared
 You're getting paranoid and then guns are shared
 You guys think that you're hard but you're in fear of being harmed
 I fear no man and I'm unarmed

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