Out on the tar plains, the glides are moving All looking for a new place to hide You sit beside me, so newly charming Sweating dew drops glisten, freshing your side And the sun drips down bedding heavy behind The front of your dress all shadowy lined And the droning engine throbs in time With your beating heart And the sun drips down bedding heavy behind The front of your dress all shadowy lined And the droning engine throbs in time With your beating heart Way down the lane away, living for another day The aphids swarm up in the drifting haze Swim, seagull in the sky, towards that hollow western isle My envied lady holds you fast in her gaze And the sun drips down bedding heavy behind The front of your dress all shadowy lined And the droning engine throbs in time With your beating heart And the sun drips down bedding heavy behind The front of your dress all shadowy lined And the droning engine throbs in time With your beating heart Sing, Blue Silver Sing, sing, Blue Silver And watching lovers part, I feel you smiling What glass splinters lie so deep in your mind? To tear out from your eyes, with a word to stiffen brooding lies But I'll only watch you leave me further behind And the sun drips down bedding heavy behind The front of your dress all shadowy lined And the droning engine throbs in time With your beating heart The sun drips down bedding heavy behind The front of your dress all shadowy lined And the droning engine throbs in time With your beating heart Sing, sing, Blue Silver Sing, sing, Blue Silver

You're cellophane You think that you got it wrapped up With your brutal suffocating ways Like cellophane Spreading yourself too thin To begin to feel anything Oh all the fear, all the lies What you think you need to survive The crisis is moving in, over and over the same thing From X to Y to Z comply Heartache barely keeps you alive The crisis is coming, over and over the same thing (Alibis alibis) Like alibis Smiling like a sunbeam Furious as creeping fire and grazing ice And your alibis Tongue-tied smoke and mirrors Left stuttering in bleach and lights (Cellophane) Oh all the fear all the lies What you think you need to survive The crisis is moving in over and over the same thing From X to Y to Z comply Heartache barely keeps you alive The crisis is coming over and over the same thing Did you find that you're lost? Oh let us fall down through the cracks in the pavement If you find that you're lost Nothing, nothing is safer Did you find that you're lost? The cracks are the same whether sidewalk or pavement Who's keeping score? Nothing is sacred, nothing is sacred You're like cellophane You think that you got it wrapped up with your brutal suffocating ways Oh all the fear all the lies You think you need to survive The crisis is moving in Over and over the same thing From X to Y to Z comply The heartache barely keeps you alive The crisis is coming Over and over the same thing You're like cellophane You think that you got it wrapped up with your brutal suffocating ways (Alibis) (Alibis) (Alibis)

I'll play your games with your sex, with electric shocks Learn to let myself loose and be the dummy in your snapshots I'll play your games, learn to get on with your backward fans Stick my body in the sun and help to get rid of the white tan, tan And maybe then you wouldn't get so sick of me And maybe then you wouldn't get so sick of me And maybe then you wouldn't get so sick of me And maybe then you wouldn't get so sick of me I'll play your games marking names with the blackest thoughts If you're building me up to be the target for your cheap shots I'll play your games, keep a blind eye on the main chance Strip my body of its skin and try to cancel out the white trash, trash And maybe then you wouldn't get so sick of me And maybe then you wouldn't get so sick of me And maybe then you wouldn't get so sick of me And maybe then you wouldn't get so sick of me I'll play your games if your aim is for the quick fix 'Cause I know what you wanted and I know how you got it I'll play your games if you play out in the fast lane Learn to jump into the road, learn to save a little lost face, face, face And maybe then you wouldn't get so sick of me And maybe then you wouldn't get so sick of me And maybe then you wouldn't get so sick of me And maybe then you wouldn't get so sick of me And maybe then you wouldn't get so sick of me And maybe then you wouldn't get so sick of me And maybe then you wouldn't get so sick of me And maybe then you wouldn't get so sick of me

I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) I'm tryin to make it through these hard times I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) I'm tryin to make it through these hard times I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) I'm tryin to make it through these hard times I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) Hard times (hard), hard times (hard) You never know how much you miss a person, until they gone Like to hear it? Hear it go, I'm rehearsing, gotta sing my song I know I've done some wrong, but I can't get right Cause life is like a big fight I'm stickin-and-movin, tryin to get my shit right My family's been houndin me, friends they done turned against me Kinda like they hearts was on a full tank, but now they empty And they say I've changed, but like twins I'm just the same It's because of my job, mo' money mo' prob in this dirty game This industry FUCKED UP That's right I said it, and it's fake as ever Keep real niggaz around me, stay "Space Age 4 Eva" Po-ppa never went and jumped the broom, never got that one degree But if you looked down from heaven, you'd still be proud of me Your son was DUI, but my momma made it by I didn't shed no tears when you left me But the rest of the family cried Trials and tribulations, ruined my concentration Losin my patience, hard times for goodness sake'n I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) I'm tryin to make it through these hard times I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) I'm tryin to make it through these hard times I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) I'm tryin to make it through these hard times I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) Hard times (hard), hard times (hard) As this Valium slowly starts to kick in Them subconcious, subliminal thoughts, start tickin This whole world around me, diseased, and crumblin Babies doin dope cause daddy did it right in front of them Everybody wanna blame music for they bad kids Sittin up in the court talkin 'bout Eminem made me do what I did My own hard times rolled in like the fog Try to think of others, but I can't get past my own thoughts My momma, in 1967, pickin cotton While other blacks was gettin liberated, boycottin My old man was a player, ain't no hidin that He started tootin then he graduated to smokin crack I never saw him, never needed to see that muh'fucker He left me and my mother stuck down here in this fuckin gutter I tattoed it on my arm so I can't forget it It's in my mind and my heart so I'm forever with it I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) I'm tryin to make it through these hard times I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) I'm tryin to make it through these hard times I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) I'm tryin to make it through these hard times I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) Hard times (hard), hard times (hard) A drum machine, the old fo'-track, and a pack of new tapes In the middle of, 1988, in a corner cafe We made beats, and hung with old heads, and stayed out late at night Do talent shows, fo'-way split the dough, that was our way of life My momma stayed, home full time so she could raise me Knowin without a, household father, things could get crazy Sometimes I listened, sometimes I thought I knew it all But nevertheless, momma was with me through it all I graduated out of nothin, not out of school, it was like 12, 13, 14 years I'm thinkin cool I might as well, be focusin on me tryin to get paid Usin these rhymes I've been writin since in the 7th grade Our team played, and had physical sex with minimum wage It was just like a piece of pussy It fucked me long as I stayed But still I prayed, Lord I'm tryin now please help me out the water It can't get no harder Help me to get back up and get my shit tomorrow I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) I'm tryin to make it through these hard times I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) I'm tryin to make it through these hard times I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) I'm tryin to make it through these hard times I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) Hard times (hard), hard times (hard) I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) I'm tryin to make it through these hard times I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) I'm tryin to make it through these hard times I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) I'm tryin to make it through these hard times I'm tryin to make it through these hard times (hard, times) Hard times (hard), hard times (hard)