Welcome to the Cruel World
Album - 8 febbraio 1994 - Debaser id 18510

[ INSTRUMENTAL ]

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
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
I won't follow you
Listen here
I don't fear
I don't want to be your
Whipping Boy

You can hold me
Baby I want you to
And you can scold me
Yes I like that too
I won't follow you
Listen here
I don't fear
I don't want to be your
Whipping Boy

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
Listen here
I don't fear
I don't want to be your
Whipping Boy

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

Now while there's still time to be saved
Don't take that attitude to your grave
It might be too late for you I'm afraid
So don't take that attitude to your Grave
Don't you take it there

I hear helicopters over my house everyday
Shining their lights and flying low
Treat a child like a criminal from the day he is born
And you're gonna reap just what you sew

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
Now don't take that attitude to your grave
Don't you take it there

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

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 you, they don't want it.
Don't you take it there.

And you dare the children stay off of drugs
I dare to stop letting them in
And how dare you point your finger at a gang out on the street
While its you who is committing the sin

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
They don't it want it there
You know your mother taught you better
Don't take that attitude to your grave

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

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

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

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

To our angel...SL

Papa he left home today
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

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

And mama's got a girlfriend now boy
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend
Mama's found a true friend
Mama's got a girlfriend now

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"

And mama's got a girlfriend now boy
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend
Mama found a true friend
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend now boy
Mama's got a girlfriend now
Mama's got a girlfriend
Mama's found a true friend
Mama's got a girlfriend now

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
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.
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
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
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

I'm leaving here on the morning train
And i will never see this world again
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
And i felt pleasure
An i felt pain
And i know now
I can never be the same

And if someday i find my peace of mind
I will share my wealth with all of human kind
I've felt pleasure
And i have felt pain
And i know now
That i can never be the same

So if the sun does shine or rain does fall
I give thanks i've had my sight to see through it all
And i've felt pleasure
And i have felt pain
And i know now
That i can never be the same

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 its so hard to do
and so easy to say
but sometimes
sometimes
you just have to walk away
walk away

so many people to love in my life
why do i worry about one
but'a you put the happy in my ness
you put the good times into my fun

and its so hard to do
and so easy to say
sometimes
sometimes
you just have to walk away
walk away
and head for the door

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

they say that time, will make all this go away
but its time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays
and once again that rising sun is a droppin on down
and once again you my friend are no where to be found

and its so hard to do, and so easy to say
but sometimes
sometimes
you just have to walk away
walk away
and head for the door
you just walk away
walk away
walk away.....
just walk on
walk on
turn and head for the door....
walk away

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 cirlces 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?
Oh, 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 our 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?
Oh, how many miles must we march?

There must come a day
when a box is not somebody's home
The unfinished work of our heros
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?
How many miles must we march?
How many miles must we march?
Woah, how many miles we march
How many ... Miles must we...
How many miles ... woah, how many miles?

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'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

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

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
Pumping in my living room

So you may you 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'll walk like I've got a diamond mine
Breakin' up in my front yard

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

So 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 a gold mine
Diggin' up in my living room

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, yes I'll rise

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
I'm gonna rise
I'll rise
I'll rise rise rise
I'll rise
I'll rise
I'll rise rise rise