I've never been The one to raise my hand That was not me And now that's who I am Because of you I am standing tall My heart is full Of endless gratitude
You don't know me but I'm your brother I was raised here in this living hell You don't know my kind in your world Fairly soon the time will tell You,
Living For the City A boy is born in hard time mississippi Surrounded by four walls that ain't so pretty His parents give him love and affection To keep
Ohhhh, I was lying in the bed with fever And I was, burning up inside My baby walked, in my bedroom And I could hardly open my eyes She said that
I live on a battlefield surrounded by the ruins of the love we built And then destroyed between us the smoke has cleared As I stumble through the rubble
I look around this room and feel the pull of tender years Before we knew enough to be afraid of all our fears Baby there was no corner we couldn't fight
Fella's I wonder would you mind if I talked to ya for a minute? You know, sometimes we have a tendencies or should I say we forget What a woman needs
New found freedom, I'm leaving the past behind New found freedom, making up for lost time Dug a little deeper, moved it on down the line Must've been
Her daddy had the money, all the milk and honey She never had to pay any dues Don't know what her name is but man she sure is famous She keeps herself
She was my only one, love me till kingdom come She took me to that place I've never been before Her body in the night revealed by candle light Her Spanish
I'm rolling out on Friday night Got my good shoes on and I'm all right I got this crazy feeling down in my bones I walk in the room and the party's on
Well, sometimes I get lonely And that's a hard thing to say Till I wound up in the wrong side of Mississippi A little more than a getaway Don't talk
Feel you letting go Holding on, caught in between Could you risk the pain Take the chance, your heart might bleed Just to feel that way Can't keep running
You took my heart, baby And you broke it in a thousand pieces I may not have been much to you But every man still needs a reason See I tried so hard
The sun's shining and it's raining No better way to describe my feel When you left my heart was complaining How a couple of days can act like years I
I've been waiting, I've been aching Now you're fading out of reach I was angry now I'm sorry Have mercy over me Because a life without love would only
If it's lovin' that you want, well, it's lovin' you'll receive 'Cause you've come to the right place, baby Yeah, the door is always open if you need some
Shadows to the right and to the left I see myself and I'm not myself Nowhere to stop, nowhere to go And I just don't know of anything else It's 4 O'clock
