Ridin' on the City of New Orleans Illinois Central, Monday mornin' rail 15 cars & 15 restless riders Three conductors, and 24 sacks of mail All along the southbound odyssey the train moves out of Kentucky And moves along past houses, farms & fields Passin' trains that have no name, as which yards' full of old black men And the graveyards of rusted automobiles Good mornin' America, how are you? Say Don't you know me? I'm your native son! I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done Dealin' cards with the old men on the club car Penny a point, ain't nobody keepin' score Then now pass the paper bag that holds the bottle And feel the wheels grumblin' neath the floor And the sons of Pullman porters & the sons of engineers Ride their daddies' magic carpet made of steel Mothers with their babes asleep, rockin' to the gentle beat And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel Good mornin' America, how are you? Say Don't you know me? I'm your native son! I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done Good night America, how are you? Say Don't you know me? I'm your native son! I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done

Darlin, you complete me But you make a lot of assumtions and when you are assuming things, You make an ass out of you and me Don't make an ass out of me We belong together And you know that I'm right Why do you play with my heart, Why do you play with my mind? Said we'd be forever Said it'd never die How could you love me and leave me and never say good-bye? When I can't sleep at night without holding you tight Girl, each time I try I just break down and cry Pain in my head oh I'd rather be dead Spinnin' around and around Although we've come to the end of the road Still I can't let you go It's unnatural, you belong to me, I belong to you Girl, I know you love me, You just don't realize You've never been there before It's only your first time Maybe I'll forgive you One day maybe you'll try We should be happy together forever, you and I Will you love me again like you loved me before This time I want you to love me much more This time instead just come to my bed And baby just don't let me down Ey baby, remember that one time we went to the beach and we Drink that 12'r? We were so wasted we passed out I got that nasty sunburn it was so getto Although we've come to the end of the road Still I can't let you go It's unnatural, you belong to me, I belong to you Girl, I know you love me, You just don't realize You've never been there before It's only your first time Maybe I'll forgive you One day maybe you'll try We should be happy together forever, you and I Will you love me again like you loved me before This time I want you to love me much more This time instead just come to my bed And baby just don't let me down

In sleep he sang to me In dreams he came That voice which calls to me And speaks my name And do I dream again? For now I find The Phantom of the Opera is there Inside my mind Sing once again with me Our strange duet My power over you Grows stronger yet And though you turn from me [Just] to glance behind The Phantom of the Opera is there Inside your mind Those who have seen your face Draw back in fear I am the mask you wear It's me they hear Your spirit and my voice In one combined The Phantom of the Opera is there Inside my mind (The Phantom of the Opera) (The Phantom of the Opera)

[Scarface] Step out on my corner with my box of rocks Drama covers my hood from blocks and blocks See my homie that I hang with Hit him up with the deuce thumb thang shit Back then it came with the love and niggas wasnt trippin over scratch Cause we took turns and we both stacked stacks And if you had a customer you had him for life Cause Brad the true hustler granted you right Cause if you gonna pack leaves then you got to get along And he who disagrees then got to get him gone Cause if you start to get paid the niggas wanna flex And aint no squabbling these days some niggas brought the tech And when they find you they sending you to immortal ground And aint no coming back from that shit you going down Now you history with the quickness cause you was Fuckin up the business Now what a way to end a friendship shouldve finished Cause aint no love for pause in this game Nigga I'm relentless leaving your moms in the pain If your ass had to get got then I got your ass Rude boy mishandled the stock so I popped your ass I'm so for doe that my mind flows in it for life That I'm down to let my mind go get it tonight No understanding when I'm hustling Because in life all I understood was hustling cause I was struggling Muscling anything in the way Of me seeing first motherfuckin light of the day Chorus: repeat 2X My pockets aint hurting thats for certain You see a broke muthafucker it's a burden I'm the first muthafucker on the block for the cheese And I'm the last muthafucker to leave [Bushwick Bill] There was some niggas selling dope down the street I know You make a left they on the right third white house from the liquor store You can't miss it cause they be cappin Pretty cars in the yard Walkie talkies and security guards Them muthafuckers had money out the ass and it was evident By the way they dressed and flashed Meanwhile I'm on the outside looking in I got to get them mutha fuckers how can I win Three a.m. coming from the club caught the pussies Me and four niggas hiding in the bushes Jumped out like the jumpout boys with them glocks and gauges (Whew) You should've saw them niggas faces Bitches get butt naked is what I ordered Open the door get on the floor they was slaughtered (They was slaughtered) Cause once inside we didn't need em We knew where the scratch was located six months before we raided And aint feel nothing for their family Cause in this life you take the bitter with the sweet or your gambling Nigga I'm busting anything in the way Of me seeing first muthafuckin light of the day Chorus 2X [Willie D] Now you can say what you want about my persona But don't let me hear you or I'm gon' freak you out like Madonna Sneak up on put my gat to your stomach squeeze the trigga So close them eyes cause youse a dead ass nigga Motherfuckers say I'm wrong because I feel this way But my environment taught me how to deal this way And if I kill this way then thats the way I got to go Cause everything you reap in life you got to sow But I don't care about the paid down the road from a fool I'm living for today but if tomorrow comes cool nigga If you think you want to meddle with this Bring your ass to the square and we can settle this shit I'm going pop pop pop til your head start swelling Pop pop pop till your ass start smelling You cried when your grandma died that was real But you aint got to cry no more you going to see her And newcomers get dealt with Cause you cant get paid if you aint part of my clique nigga I'm bustin anything in the way Of me seeing first muthafuckin light of the day Chorus 4X