Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch
 Written By: Spice/M.Wahlberg/L. Reed


 Ah yeah huh..America the Beautiful
 Huh, yeah, let me introduce y'all..to the Wildside

 Annie was a high school cheerleader
 Pom poms and bobby socks, no girl was sweeter
 Come Prom time everybody was on the line
 All the fellas swinging nickel and dime
 Tales about love and lust and trust
 But Annie took it all in stride
 Cause deep inside Annie had aspirations
 Wanted to be a chemical engineer
 Making 50 to 55 thousand a year
 Her first year of college was a success
 But along came Billy possessed and obsessed
 He took Annie on a fatal date
 And showed her things that make heartbeats accelerate
 Annie took a hit breathed two short breaths
 One for life..the last for death
 Now she's gone, a former Valedictorian
 Ended up becoming a topic for historians
 Washe up dreams and shattered pride
 All because Annie took a hit - on the Wildside

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 Ron had enough of being broke everyday
 Saying to himself, there's gotta be a betta way
 Cause 9 to 5 wasn't worth the headaches
 So Ron figured out a faster way to make - money
 Before you know it, he's a rich man
 Gold on every finger of his hand
 A brand new BMW, a condo, Ron ended up a John Doe
 A body was found in the alley but never clained
 Full of bullet holes but none to blame
 Ron became another victim of homicide
 Because he chose to walk - on the Wildside

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 Charles had everything going for him
 A top paying job, a good life, a good wife
 A baby boy on the way any day
 A gentleman attitude is all he displayed
 Carol was the wife he loved and adored
 Her family and freinds treated him like an Ambassador
 One night on the other side of town
 A police dispatcher picked up a weird sound
 Charles on the car phone asking for help
 Claiming a burglar shot his wife and himself
 His pregnant wife lay slumped over
 Dreams corrupted and a young life over
 Extensive searches throughout the projects
 Put a lot of people through misery and wreck
 Everyone a suspect til someone was found
 Interrigated cause their skin was brown
 Then there was Bennett, guilty until proven so
 But soon as the case started moving slow
 What do you know, sure as as sea gull gets webbed toed
 Charles was the culprit
 The whole plot was an insurance scam
 Charles and his brother came up with a plan
 Kill Carol, collect a big check
 Blame it on a black man, what the heck?
 And just before the story was known
 Charles had a feeling that his cover was blown
 So he jumped offa bridge
 Committed suicide
 This is how it is - on the Wildside

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 Little Tiffany, only thirteen
 Came to the city, place of big dreams
 Visiting family and friends for the summertime
 Sittin' on a mailbox, watchin' the boys climb trees
 And the girls play hopscotch
 So far, her vacation was top notch
 Then out of the blue, a Mercedes at top speed
 Gang bangers chasin' the robbers on the stampede
 Quick as a blink shots rang out loud
 And a hail of bullets zipped through the crowd
 One hit Tiffany, and instantly she died
 Innocently - on the Wildside