It ain't gonna be easy from now on You've been messing around while I've been gone But sometimes telling the truth can be unkind Folks who suffer guilt can be so blind It ain't gonna be easy, I can tell Just how empty I'm feeling, you know damn well I'm telling you it ain't gonna be easy from the start Look out, honey, you're playing with my heart It ain't gonna be easy and that's for sure Changing things back the way they were before Once you've lifted the lid on such pain It ain't easy to put it back again It ain't gonna be easy to forget Now you've been seeing a man that I ain't met I'm telling you that it ain't gonna be easy from the start Look out, baby, you're playing with my heart It ain't gonna be so easy this time around Turning back the clock on what's gone down Oh, there comes a time when you need to make a stand You gotta play your cards or fold a losing hand And it ain't gonna be easy and that's no lie But if you're willing to try it, so am I It ain't gonna be so easy from the start You better look out, darling, you're playing with my heart It ain't gonna be easy It ain't gonna be easy It ain't gonna be easy and that's no lie But if you're willing, willing to try it, so am I It ain't gonna be so easy from the start Oh, you better look out, darling, you're playing with my heart With my heart, yeah It ain't gonna be easy It ain't gonna be easy It ain't gonna be so easy from the start Ooh It ain't gonna be so easy from the sta-a-a-a-a-a-art It ain't gonna, it ain't gonna be so easy Easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, yeah It ain't gonna be so easy It ain't gonna be so easy from the start Yeah, you got my heart, yeah And it ain't gonna be so easy from the start Yeah It ain't gonna be so easy, easy from the start It ain't gonna be so easy from the start Yeah, you got my heart, yeah But it ain't gonna be so easy from the start It ain't gonna be easy Easy from the sta-a-a-a-a-a-a-art It ain't gonna be easy...

I ain't gonna be the first to cry Even though you had the last laugh on me I ain't gonna be the first to cry Even though you had the last laugh on me You're just a link in my chain Someone else will end this misery I aint gonna be the lonely one Someone will chase the clouds away I aint gonna be the lonely one Someone will end this rainy day It's just a matter of time And time is all I got since you went away I ain't gonna be the first to cry Even though you had the last laugh on me I ain't gonna be the first to cry Even though you had the last laugh on me You're just a link in my chain Someone else will end this misery I ain't gonna let the teardrops fall They could never wash away this pain I ain't gonna let the teardrops fall Even though you turned my love into a game There's just one thing, that you should know You'll be sorry some day

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