I'm sitting here on my own, Haven't seen you in a long, long time. This waiting's getting old. As I sit here I sing to myself A little tune that helps (sometimes) To pass the time. And this is how it goes, This is how it goes. This is how it goes Ooh waa ooh waa ooh hoo hoo Ooh waa ooh waa ooh Ooh waa ooh waa ooh hoo hoo Ooh waa ooh waa ooh hoo hoo Ooh waa ooh waa ooh Ooh waa ooh waa ooh hoo hoo Ooh waa ooh waa ooh hoo hoo Ooh waa ooh waa ooh Ooh waa ooh waa ooh hoo hoo Still sitting here on my own, Music's running through my head, Changes all the time. Just remember sing between the lines That little tune that helps the quiet moments To pass the time. And this is how it goes, This is how it goes. Ooh waa ooh waa ooh hoo hoo Ooh waa ooh waa ooh Ooh waa ooh waa ooh hoo hoo Ooh waa ooh waa ooh hoo hoo Ooh waa ooh waa ooh Ooh waa ooh waa ooh hoo hoo Ooh waa ooh waa ooh hoo hoo Ooh waa ooh waa ooh Ooh waa ooh waa ooh hoo hoo

This is how it goes You'll get angry at yourself And think you can think of something else And I'll hear the clanging of the bells 'Cause I can't stop you baby 'Cause I don't have the bribery in place No bright shiny surface to my face So I won't go near the market place With what I'm selling lately 'Cause this is how it goes 'Cause it's all about drugs It's all about shame And whatever they want Don't tell 'em your name This is how it goes One more failure to connect With so many, how could I object? And you, what on earth did you expect? Well, I can't tell you, baby When this is how it goes 'Cause it's all about drugs It's all about shame And whatever they want Don't tell 'em your name So I'll try to hold on While you try to let go You won't tell me it's gone But, baby, I'll know Baby, I'll know Baby, I'll know Baby, I'll know

Get a bag, and avoid the hoes I can't fall in love, that's just how it goes Spit the rap, mix the audio Turn the volume up, let's see how it goes Stick to cash, and a lotta dope I cannot get cuffed, that's just how it goes Split a rack with my amigos We gon run it up, and see how it goes Get a bag, and avoid the hoes I can't fall in love, that's just how it goes Spit the rap, mix the audio Turn the volume up, let's see how it goes Stick to cash, and a lotta dope I cannot get cuffed, that's just how it goes Split a rack with my amigos We gon run it up, and see how it goes That's just how it goes (That's just how it goes) That's just how it goes (That's just how it goes) That's just how it goes (That's just how it goes) That's just how it goes (That's just how it goes) That's just how it goes (That's just how it goes) That's just how it goes (That's just how it goes) That's just how it goes (That's just how it goes) That's just how it goes (That's just how it goes) I was prolly lying if I told a girl I love her She could be a dime, but she still just another number I could be sublime, but my mind still in the gutter Told a psychic read between lines, and between the lines said fuck em I'm on the ave I'm on the cash I off the pack I often trap Off of them drugs I'm on relapse Damn, what the fuck Where am I at I woke up sober, surroundings look strange Walking around and my town looking changed Too many niggas that I thought was real But really they fake, who could I blame Had to unfollow my ex So I could follow a check She ripped my heart out my chest I hit the bank for the meds I need deposit direct I make the calls, collect They might mistake me a ref That shit be common as threats She gimme the jaw, the neck Take off the draws, she wet Need my bread long, baguettes I'm putting on for the set Niggas is fake I see them mimicking snakes I see them licking their fangs Let's get this shit straight Yall better slither away I'm in the yard with the K Yo word to my mother I tried praying to God I waited so long for an answer my problems solved themselves It took me til I was now years old to realize I was responsible for myself How long did it take you? I'll put my what it's called down if you put down yours I gotta tell you a secret anyway None of this shit matters... Get a bag, and avoid the hoes I can't fall in love, that's just how it goes Spit the rap, mix the audio Turn the volume up, let's see how it goes Stick to cash, and a lotta dope I cannot get cuffed, that's just how it goes Split a rack with my amigos We gon run it up, and see how it goes Get a bag, and avoid the hoes I can't fall in love, that's just how it goes Spit the rap, mix the audio Turn the volume up, let's see how it goes Stick to cash, and a lotta dope I cannot get cuffed, that's just how it goes Split a rack with my amigos We gon run it up, and see how it goes That's just how it goes (That's just how it goes) That's just how it goes (That's just how it goes) That's just how it goes (That's just how it goes) That's just how it goes (That's just how it goes) That's just how it goes (That's just how it goes) That's just how it goes (That's just how it goes) That's just how it goes (That's just how it goes) That's just how it goes (That's just how it goes)

Hey Lenny, don't those city lights look real pretty, As the moon cascades a smile over Main and Hastings, You came in from the hammer, On a Greyhound coach out west To find those narceritos waiting for you with a kiss I'll say my goodbyes, and leave you with a smile We don't have many friends 'round here But the gesture's worth the while 'Cause the boys downtown and the government Aren't waiting for our votes, But the narceritos are making sure They get that tax we owe (Break) Did you hear they don't want your safe house here anymore, And they cut the arts with a steely knife, And sent kids off the war, 'Cause there's no room for an addict, Or an artist in the house, This law and order all the while in a narceritos smile So Lenny, this city sleeps, and now I'll say goodbye 'Cause we ain't got no business in these chambers of our time, So if you'd rather pay your money, On an 8-ball piece of mind Well it's all going to the government, And organized crime

Well I remember, you used to say that you want a revolution someday Well funny how you forget Cause I remember you'd be tied down and screaming And I was this bad boy who never listened No one hurts more than the man who won't believe it And you go down after all this Well I remember you'd be tied down and screaming Santa Monica, put up your hands We surrounded your promised land The British army, waiting for command Santa Monica you've got no chance And the day was blood red After all these men go to their beds And you wish they're back well Well I remember you'd be tied down and screaming Santa Monica, put up your hands We surrounded your promised land The British army, waiting for command Santa Monica you've got no chance And the day ends with sound All horizons go out with the ground And you wish you're back well Well I remember you'd be tied down and screaming Santa Monica, put up your hands We surrounded your promised land The British army, waiting for command Santa Monica you've got no chance And the day was And the day ends And the day ends Yeah and the day ends when you're tied down and screaming Santa Monica, put up your hands We surrounded your promised land The British army, waiting for command Santa Monica you've got no chance You've got no chance

Pretty eyes don't tell me lies Got a legend in the night I'm crashing into desert sands Eat the rust against the land The desert's blowing and nothing grows Wind whipped hills stripped to bones Oh history please let me go Let me be, leave me alone There's a light now there's a light Coming down my mountain side Oh my my if lonely souls I can feel it in my bones Softer hands, softer touch Ruffle wounds that burn too much Angel bringing back her hearse Carried by the night nurse There's a light now there's a light Coming down my mountain side Oh my my if lonely souls I can feel it in my bones Standing vision in the door Pretty thing save my soul I hear trouble in the land A fist that beats into the man There's a light now there's a light Coming down my mountain side Oh my my if lonely souls I can feel it in my bones

Look in the back of bragg In the midst of singing a dance song Whatchu goin on about??????????????????? I slept its many lane????????????? I've never been the same Since that day But there just this one thing, I don't know I don't know, I don't know, I don't know If the winner takes it all I don't want to lose the battle And if the winner takes it all, takes it all, take it I never said, I never said, I was the loneliest one Or read between the lines of a book that means nothing I never said, I never said I was out of control You took your picture, wrote a poem and turned it into????? Get out my face, Get out my face That's your standing, I've assumed never landing Get out my face that's your standing I'll be landing from outer space If the winner takes it all, I don't wanna lose the battle If the winner take it all, take it all, take it

Deep in the past We can trigger to the barrel blast On the avenue Where I would crash into you What's done is done and life is a gun Life is a gun on the run Oh my dear, isn't life a gun A story shotgun that came undone We came undone New York's cold On the road we became old Standing still But I'm running against all my will What's done is done and life is a gun Life is a gun on the run Oh my dear, isn't life a gun A story shotgun that came undone We came undone The well won path Was never something I would walk So lay it down Lay these guns in the ground What's done is done and life is a gun Life is a gun on the run Oh my dear, isn't life a gun A story shotgun that came undone What's done is done and life is a gun Life is a gun on the run Oh my dear, isn't life a gun