Whipping boy

 
 Well you can need me
 well I want you to
 and you can feed me
 how I like that too
 but don't you lead me
 I won't follow you

chorus :
 listen here
 I don't fear
 I don't want to be your
 whipping boy

 You can tease me
 how I want you to
 and you can squeeze me
 baby I like that too
 but don't you lead me
 I won't follow you
 (chorus)

 You can hold me
 baby I want you to
 and you can scold me
 yes I like that too
 but don't you lead me
 I won't follow you
 (chorus)

 Well you can need me
 well I want you to
 and you can feed me
 baby I like that too
 but don't you lead me
 I won't follow you
 (chorus)
 
 

Breakin down

 
 You don't believe that I love you
 and even if that was true
 why just to keep our unhappy home
 I'm gonna try to pretend that I do
 Now I'm breakin' down
 I'm breakin' down
 I'm breakin' down
 I'm breakin' down
 My baby she left me
 said she ain't comin' back around
 I'm breakin' down

 And if I thought that it was okay
 for a grown man to cry
 I would have filled up the whole mighty ocean
 when she said goodbye
 and I'm breakin' down
 I'm breakin' down
 I'm breakin' down
 I'm breakin' down
 you know my baby she left me
 said she ain't comin' back around
 I'm breakin' down

 One day you said everything was just right
 I don't see, I don't see how it changed overnight
 one day you said everything was so strong
 the next day you turn to me and say
 it's been wrong all along
 (x2)

 Oh and now you won't even look at me
 you pass me by in the street and you won't even speak
 I never meant to cause you any harm
 how could two people start so close
 and end up so far
 I'm breakin' down
 I'm breakin' down
 I'm breakin' down
 
 

Don't take that attitude to your grave

 
 You say what's mine is mine
 and what's yours is mine too
 now you've got more than you can spend
 but all of the money
 in the whole wide world
 is not gonna help you in the end

 chorus :
 now while there's still time to be saved
 don't take that attitude to your grave
 might be too late for you I'm afraid
 don't take that attitude to your grave
 don't you take it there

 I hear helicopters
 over my house every day
 shining their lights and flying low
 treat a child like a criminal
 from the day that he is born
 and you're gonna reap just what you sow
 (chorus)

 So you can move your court case
 way across town
 you can move it across the whole wide globe
 but it ain't gonna help your court case
 up in the sky
 when you go to put on your white robe
 (chorus)

 And you dare the children
 to stay off of drugs
 now I dare you to stop letting them in
 and how dare you point your finger
 at a gang out on the street
 while it's you who is committing the sin
 (chorus)
 they don't want it there
 you know your mother taught you better
 don't take that attitude to your grave
 
 

Waiting on an angel

 
 Waiting on an angel
 one to carry me home
 hope you come to see me soon
 cause I don't want to go alone
 I don't want to go alone

 Now angel won't you come by me
 angel hear my plea
 take my hand lift me up
 so that I can fly with thee
 so that I can fly with thee

 chorus :
 And I'm waiting on an angel
 and I know it won't be long
 to find myself a resting place
 in my angel's arms
 in my angel's arms

 So speak kind to a stranger
 cause you'll never know
 it just might be an angel come
 knockin' at your door
 knockin' at your door

 (chorus)

 Waiting on an angel
 one to carry me home
 hope you come to see me soon
 cause I don't want to go alone
 I don't want to go alone
 don't want to go
 I don't want to go alone
 
 

Mama's got a girlfriend now

 
 Papa he left home today
 and said he ain't comin' back again
 said he ain't gonna be nobody's second best
 just cause mama's got a special kind of friend

 Papa he left home today
 said he ain't comin' back no more
 said he ain't gonna take no damn back seat
 and how could mama do him so low

 chorus :
 But mama's got a girlfriend now boy
 mama's got a girlfriend now
 mama's got a girlfriend
 mama's got a true friend
 mama's got a girlfriend now

 You see mama don't watch your damn football
 and your beer drinkin' just won't do
 you're just stayin' out late
 and you're preachin' the hate
 and you never have been true

 You see mama she want her somebody
 who will let her be herself
 so she's leavin' you
 and your stinky damn ways
 cause she's found somebody else

 (chorus)

 Papa he left home today
 he was wavin' his hands and cryin'
 you could tell by the sound
 and the tone in his voice
 that his heart was slowly dyin'

 But mama said "Boy if I ever
 catch you 'round here again
 you ain't never gonna have nobody else
 not a woman or a man"

 (chorus)x2
 
 

Forever

 
 Not talkin' 'bout a year
 no not three or four
 I don't want that kind of forever
 in my life anymore
 forever always seems
 to be around when it begins
 but forever never seems
 to be around when it ends

 chorus :
 so give me your forever
 please your forever
 not a day less will do
 from you

 People spend so much time
 every single day
 runnin' 'round all over town
 givin' their forever away
 but no not me
 I won't let my forever roam
 and now I hope I can find
 my forever a home
 (chorus)

 Like a handless clock with numbers
 an infinite of time
 no not the forever found
 only in the mind
 forever always seems
 to be around when things begin
 but forever never seems
 to be around when things end
 (chorus)
 
 

Like a king

 
 Well Martin's dream
 has become Rodney's worst
 nightmare
 can't walk the streets
 to them we are fair game
 our lives don't mean a thing

 chorus :
 like a king, like a king, like a king
 Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King
 like a king, like a king, like a king
 how I wish you could help us Dr. King

 Make sure it's filmed
 shown on national T.V.
 they'll have no mercy
 a legal lynch mob
 like the days strung up from the tree
 the L.A.P.D.

 (chorus)

 So if you catch yourself
 thinking it has changed for the best
 you better second guess
 cause Martin's dream
 has become Rodney's worst
 nightmare

 (chorus)
 
 

Pleasure and pain

 
 I'm leaving here on the morning train
 and I will never see this world again

 chorus :
 I've felt pleasure
 and I have felt pain
 and I know now
 that I can never be the same

 How I wonder why the world can be so cold
 and if only good die young
 then left with me cruel here to grow old
 (chorus)

 And if someday I find my peace of mind
 I will share my wealth with all of human kind
 (chorus)

 So if the sun does shine or rain does fall
 I give thanks I've had my sight to see through it all
 (chorus)
 
 

Walk away

 
 Oh no
 here comes that sun again
 that means another day
 without you my friend

 And it hurts me
 to look into the mirror at myself
 and it hurts even more
 to have to be with somebody else
 and it's so hard to do
 and so easy to stay
 but sometimes
 sometimes you just have to walk away
 walk away

 With so many people
 to love in my life
 why do I worry
 about one

 But you put the happy
 in my ness
 you put the good times
 into my fun
 and it's so hard to do
 and so easy to stay
 but sometimes
 sometimes you just have to walk away
 walk away
 and head for the door

 We've tried the goodbye
 so many days
 we walk in the same direction
 so that we could never stray
 they say if you love somebody
 than you have got to set them free
 but I would rather be locked to you
 than live in this pain and misery

 They say time will
 make all this go away
 but it's time that has taken my tomorrows
 and turned them into yesterdays
 and once again that rising sun is dropping on down
 and once again you my friend
 are nowhere to be found
 and it's so hard to do
 and so easy to stay
 but sometimes
 sometimes you just have to walk away
 walk away
 and head for the door
 you just walk away
 walk away
 
 

How many miles must we march

 
 Exactly how much will have to burn
 before we will look to the past to learn
 we walk along this endless path
 which has led us in a circle
 so here we are right back
 we can't let the future become our past
 if we are to change the world
 won't you tell me
 tell me please
 how many miles must we march
 how many miles must we march

 When I was a baby I was not prejudiced
 hey how about you
 this was something
 that I learned in school
 something they taught us to do
 we can't let the future become our past
 if we are to change the world
 won't you tell me
 tell me please
 how many miles must we march
 how many miles must we march

 There must come a day
 when a box is not somebody's home
 the unfinished work of our heroes
 must truly be our own
 we can't let the future become our past
 if we are to change the world
 won't you tell me
 tell me please
 how many miles must we march (x6)
 
 

Welcome to the cruel world

 
 Welcome to the cruel world
 hope you find your way
 welcome to the cruel world
 hope you find your way
 it's a cruel world
 try to enjoy your stay

 Yes it is a cruel world
 when you're tryin' to get by
 it's a cruel world
 when you try when you've seen the look in their eye
 makes life hard living
 but I'm so scared to die

 Welcome to the cruel world
 welcome
 welcome

 Don't know how
 we've lasted here so long
 there must be more good than bad
 or we'd already be gone
 and if you get up to Heaven
 before I do
 I'm gonna tell ya
 It's gonna be cruel there too, cruel there too

 You can't hide from this cruel world
 cause there is no place to run
 you can't hide from the cruel world
 there just is no place to run
 it's been cruel from the beginning
 it will be cruel when we're done

 So when I'm gone
 I will gladly say goodbye
 when I am gone
 I will gladly say goodbye
 and if you want to feel me
 put your hands up to the sky

 Welcome to the cruel world
 welcome
 welcome
 hope you find your way
 try to enjoy your stay
 
 

I'll rise

 
 verse 1 :
 You may write me down in history
 with your bitter twisted lies
 you may trod me down in the very dirt
 and still like the dust I'll rise
 does my happiness upset you
 why are you best with gloom
 Cause I laugh like I've got an oil well
 pumpin' in my living room

 chorus :
 So you may shoot me with your words
 you may cut me with your eyes
 and I'll rise
 I'll rise
 I'll rise, rise, rise
 out of the shacks of history's shame
 up from a past rooted in pain
 I'll rise
 I'll rise
 I'll rise, rise, rise

 Now did you want to see me broken
 bowed head and lowered eyes
 shoulders fallen down like tear drops
 weakened by my soulful cries

 Does my confidence upset you
 don't you take it awful hard
 cause I walk like I've got a diamond mine
 breakin' up in my front yard

 (chorus)
 (verse 1)
 (chorus)