I built a house for a love to grow I was so young that it was hard to know I'm as lost now as I was back then Always make a mess of everything It's about time that I face myself All I do is bleed into someone else Painting walls with all my secret tears Filling rooms with all my hopes and fears But oh my, oh my I'll never learn if I never leap I'll always yearn if I never speak To be loved and love at the highest count Means to lose all the things I can't live without Let it be known that I will choose to lose It's a sacrifice, but I can't live a lie Let it be known, let it be known that I've tried I'm so afraid but I'm open wide I'll be the one to catch myself this time Trying to learn to lean into it all Ain't it funny how the mighty fall Looking back, I don't regret a thing Yeah, I took some bad turns that I am owning I'll stand still and let the storm pass by Keep my heart safe 'til the time feels right But oh my, oh my I'll never learn if I never leap I'll always yearn if I never speak To be loved and love at the highest count Means to lose all the things I can't live without Let it be known that I will choose to lose It's a sacrifice, but I can't live a lie Let it be known Let it be known that I cried for you Even started lying to you What a thing to do All because I wanted To be loved and love at the highest count Means to lose all the things I can't live without Let it be known, known, known That I will choose, I will lose It's a sacrifice, but I can't live a lie Let it be known Let it be known that I tried That I tried Let it be known that I tried

Someone to care Someone to share Those lonely hours And moments of despair To be loved (to be loved) To be loved (to be loved) Oh, what a feeling to be loved, yeah-yeah Someone to kiss Someone to miss When you're away To hear from each day To be loved (to be loved) To be loved (to be loved) Whoa, what a feeling to be loved, whoa Some wish to be a king or a queen Some wish for fortune and fame But to be truly, truly, truly loved Well, it's more than (just a little more, just a little more) Any one of those things (just a little bit, just a little bit more) Whoa, someone to kiss Someone to miss When you're away To hear from each day To be loved (to be loved) To be loved (to be loved) Oh, what a feeling to be loved Oh, but to be truly loved, baby Just more than (just a little more, just a little more) One of these things (just a little bit, just a little bit more) Someone to miss Oh, someone to kiss When you're away To hear from each day To be loved (to be loved) To be loved (to be loved) Oh, what a feeling to be loved To be loved To be loved To be loved Oh, what a feeling to be loved

Welcome to the planet Earth Welcome to the heroes' fall This is a thing called birth The forgetting you knew it all This is called your first step This is called your first time This is called your first break The one that locks your mind The one where you thought That you died The one where you screamed And you cried I'm still waiting to be loved I'm still hoping there's enough The constant wanting to be loved To be loved To be loved To be loved Welcome to the race of rats Welcome to eternal blame The trick is to stay asleep The key is to play the game But don't let 'em see you cry Cover the hole inside 'Cause I'm still waiting to be loved I'm still hoping there's enough The constant wanting to be loved To be loved To be loved To be loved Oh... Aha... Welcome to the planet Earth Welcome to the heroes' call This is a thing called birth Come on remember, you knew it all But there's no love From someone else If I can't love myself And I'm still waiting to be loved Oh... I'm still waiting I'm still waiting, oh... To be loved To be loved I'm still waiting To be loved To be loved To be loved I'm still waiting (Woohoo... woohoo...) I'm still waiting If I can't love myself If I can't love myself I'm still waiting Waiting Still waiting To be loved

Just another victim of the... victim of the ghetto Just Another victim, that's how it goes, ooh Heavy foot traffic jam the hallway all day Adolescence working for small pay World so little he could never leave his block His home bullet riddled so he always need his Glock He coast with his eye open, keep his metal smoking Young wasted minds fiending on dimes, coking Forgot kids quick to break rules and known to make fools Out of many, down the streets we more safe than school There's no diploma that can break you from the coma Of a bloody war in the country, the youth hungry On the corner hyenas amongst me Yapping about the stories they be hearing, always swearing Can't even spell the shit that he be wearing Caught up in the silk web of material Superficial stains ya brain tissue, that's the issue The young is lost at their own cost, dreaming Screaming how we never hold positions, that's the meaning Mothers of murder victims share the same grief The elderly shake their head in disbelief And no relief came till I aimed And blast one shot and left my name... the GZA Just another victim of the... victim of the ghetto Just Another victim, that's how it goes, ooh My residence is a city where army veterans smoke rocks On torn down blocks, drug spots set up their shops And cops watch innocent niggas roaming flocks Romanism in tops, papers and knots Churches and liquor stores on every corner plot To get money knots some funny niggas act like They could pop Glocks and those who can't cop Sisters giving up ass a lot, brothers giving up cash a lot Babies struggling to become someone because their parent's not Just another victim of the ghetto, where lost minds settle When the devils uncivil society and die free With double 'W' followed by J-D around the necks and wrists The God is now a dog, the Earth is called a bitch And all my people wish to get rich in this wilderness to push a Lexus Ice on everything from rings and bracelets to the necklaces Children molested within these pest infested buildings Seeds uneducated in these schools, paint on the ceilings Is peeling off, but all I see is lost black babies calling "Please somebody save me, please somebody save me" Just another victim of the... victim of the ghetto Just Another victim, that's how it goes, ooh Just another victim of the... victim of the ghetto Just Another victim, that's how it goes, ooh Just another... just another... victim of the ghetto

Waves crashing on her feet Standing in some rolled up jeans Making tracks in the sand It's like she's living in a photograph But disappearing silouhette Flip flop in her hands And every kiss is burnt and hot I can't let them go to waste Let's say the night is all that we've got And I'm ready for the chase We can be sun downers, edge of towners Waiting on a spark Silent sounders, come unwounders Tangled in the dark Like the moon is hanging lets keep this dream awake Let's go out into the AM But tonight let's be some sun downers (sun downers) Blue gives into the black Red lips just like a match That sets me on fire While the whole falls asleep Every look that you're giving me Is taking me higher And every kiss is burnt and hot I can't let them go to waste And once we start, we can't stop Like 80 with no brakes We can be sun downers, edge of towners Waiting on a spark Silent sounders, come unwounders Tangled in the dark Like the moon is hanging, lets keep this dream awake Let's go out into the AM But tonight let's be some sun downers (sun downers) We can be the only two up When they close down this town Lets just live it up til it comes back around We can be sundowners We can be come unwounders Sundowners, edge of towners Waiting on a spark Silent sounders, come unwounders Tangled in the dark Like the moon is hanging, lets keep this dream awake Let's go out until the AM But tonight let's be some sundowners Let's just be some come unwounders We can be some play it louders Gotta start sundowners (Yeah) Sundowners Sundowners Let's just be some sundowners

I'm a bad man James Dean, kinda Steve McQueen Straight out the bad lanes I rolled in and rained down Like a storm cloud or a heat wave Made you stay undercover where it's safe Don't give a damn about the plans you made We're staying in the bed all day Cause I'm selfish Restless like a river, can't help it I'm taking what you give me but I still want more I still want more Cause I'm selfish Yeah I'm selfish, I'm selfish for you Have you seen yourself in a full-length mirror Spinning around lately I'd lie, cheat, and steal Feel the sweet scent overtake me But the Lord sent an angel to save me So he can't blame me When my hands get a mind of their own Girl, if they get ahold of you, I ain't never letting go Cause I'm selfish Restless like a river, can't help it I'm taking what you give me but I still want more I still want more Cause I'm selfish Yeah I'm selfish, I'm selfish for you Oh, so selfish for you I still want more I still want more I still want more I still want more Cause I'm selfish Restless like a river, can't help it I'm taking what you give me but I still want more I still want more Cause I'm selfish Yeah I'm selfish, I'm selfish for you Still want more I still want more I still want more I still want more I'm selfish for you