Put on yout hat and and take A walk the street I you're bound to be surprised By all the you meet The of the melting pot Wreeks of While a guy does windows a sponge and his spit The on the highway try to forget That they jeopardized the lives of the guys met Some shoot you up and stuff You down a drain pipe Cause they wouldn't your body With a ten pole
Stick em up, stick em up, empty the the banger to the owner of the liquor store I was purchasing some I heard the pops and a patron started screaming "Someone the cops" The cops were called, and we were told to But the death toll rose because the were late The banger ran out,and he was in a flash He got with the murder, And out the cash
The truth hurts, the hurts, And fairy tales are like a book The hurts, the truth hurts Just your eyes and take a look, son
Let's take a trip to the lower side There's a junkie in a place where the reside He the shit, and gets the rent paid free government checks and lots ofAZT He sees his kids once a week And his wife's on her bed as we speak She prays for ones everyday But the boy is and the girl's O.K. in the city while the city sleeps You play lor fun and they for keeps There's a thief in the hood just to pop And a kid in a Cadillac to cop Herb and vials of coke And he don't sweat it out cause the a joke In a matter of time it was a real done It's back to the burbs the shit ain't real
But the hurts, the truth hurts, And tales are written like a book The truth hurts, the hurts, open your eyes and take a look, son