Man on the Corner

And when the sun goes down,
He does the same (he does the same)
And he creeps into the night and sleeps his life away.
And he used to be such an innocent child,
And when he got a little older he was wild,
Sex, drugs, rock and roll, and denial,
To the point of no return without a smile.
When he was twenty two he got a twenty two,
And no it wasn’t funny, dude (And no it wasn’t funny, dude).
The only way he could get money was to take it from somebody
Even if he left their body cold.
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I make bread and hustle to get by,
Everyone’s broke, it ain’t no surprise,
No one helps no one, look in their eyes,
I, I said look in their eyes.
A lot of pain and suffering,
So he let the drug money suck him in,
And once again it seems the same,
Stuck up in the game
But looking for some change (change).
Times flew by,
Living life getting high,
Didn’t seem like a crime ‘till his best friend (best friend) died.
No one left, no drugs, no sex,
Just a cold, cold breath.
And it ain’t no joke what this man might be thinking (man might be thinking), no
And it ain’t no joke what this man might be drinking (man might be drinking),
no,
You don’t know how it is,
You don’t know what it’s like,
You don’t know how it is unless you’ve been inside his eyes, in his mind.
No love coming from every direction,
His will to live is gone,
His mind isn’t on,
Living outside in the projects all alone.
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