Seems like I've been asking for too much from you Paying no attention to the things you do Thinking of myself, not what I put you through It's unfair to ask you for a chance, so true But still I wonder Yes, misses, the freshestis What you need 'pon you ends? Nothing less this is Holla cree 'pon the rest, tell them best wishes Clean up the Benz, new address this is And me seh nothing for the press this is Nothing fi depress 'bout, yuh request you get Though the question is, when me left the nest Fi go 'pon all di quest lef' the selfishness? Though it seem apprehensive, it's the price you pay What a prize, she bae, suffice to say I ah apprising it right away My advice to she, I find out seh it Seems like I've been asking for too much from you Paying no attention to the things you do Thinking of myself, not what I put you through It's unfair to ask you for a chance, so true But still I wonder Still I wonder Still I wonder Still I wonder (oh) Lord I been caught up with Everything apart from what I ought to be Everything I sought after was brought to me Everything I got taught me the laws of it So much loss to get where I want to be So much can't and therefore they want from me So much wars have started because of it Man nah pause fi try put him paws 'pon in it Or claws 'pon it, cyaan' put a cost 'pon it No remorse, just step 'cross and cause panic How fi get cross the path, just e thought of it Will make a man all forget seh Seems like I've been asking for too much from you Paying no attention to the things you do Thinking of myself, not what I put you through It's unfair to ask you for a chance, so true But still I wonder Still I wonder Still I wonder Still I wonder Still I wonder Still I wonder Still I wonder Still I wonder

And you measure for wealth by the things you can hold And you measure for love by the sweet things you're told And you live in the past of a dream that you're in And your selfishness is your cardinal sin And you want to be held with highest regard It delights you so much If he's trying so hard And you're trying to conceal your ordinary way With a smile or a shrug Or some stolen cliché But don't you understand And don't you look about I'm trying to take nothing from you So why should you act so put out, for me 'Cause emotionally, you're the same basic trip And you know that I know of the times that you've slipped So don't try to impress me You're just pins and paint And don't try to charm me With things that you ain't And don't try to enchant me with your manner of dress 'Cause a monkey in silk is a monkey no less So measure for measure, reflect on my said And when I won't see 'ya then measure it dead 'Cause don't you understand And don't you look about I'm trying to take nothing from you So why should you act so put out And sit there and wonder in doubt For me

Woman, please, be gone You've stayed here much too long Don't you wish that you could cry? Don't you wish I would die? Seamy, seesaw kids Child-woman on the skids The dust will choke you blind The lust will choke your mind I kiss the floor one kick no more The pig and hose have set me free I've tasted hate street's hangin' tree I've tasted hate street's hangin' tree I kiss the floor one kick no more The pig and hose have set me free I've tasted hate street's hangin' tree I've tasted hate street's hangin' tree The inner city birthed me The local pusher nursed me Cousins make it on the street They marry every trick they meet A dime, a dollar, they're all the same When a man comes in to bust your game The turn-key comes, his face a grin Locks the cell I'm in again I kiss the floor one kick no more The pig and hose have set me free I've tasted hate street's hangin' tree I've tasted hate street's hangin' tree I've tasted hate street's hangin' tree I've tasted hate street's hangin' tree I've tasted hate street's hangin' tree I've tasted hate street's hangin' tree...

Sugar man, won't you hurry 'Cos I'm tired of these scenes For a blue coin won't you bring back All those colors to my dreams Silver magic ships you carry Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane Sugar man met a false friend On a lonely dusty road Lost my heart when I found it It had turned to dead black coal Silver magic ships you carry Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane Sugar man you're the answer That makes my questions disappear Sugar man 'cos I'm weary Of those double games l hear Sugar man Sugar man Sugar man Sugar man Sugar man Sugar man Sugar man Sugar man, won't you hurry 'Cos I'm tired of these scenes For a blue coin won't you bring back All those colors to my dreams Silver magic ships you carry Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane Sugar man met a false friend On a lonely dusty road Lost my heart when I found it It had turned to dead black coal Silver magic ships you carry Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane Sugar man you're the answer That makes my questions disappear

Was it a huntsman or a player That made you pay the cost That now assumes relaxed positions And prostitutes your loss? Were you tortured by your own thirst In those pleasures that you seek That made you Tom the curious That makes you James the weak? And you claim you got something going Something you call unique But I've seen your self-pity showing As the tears rolled down your cheeks Soon you know I'll leave you And I'll never look behind 'Cause I was born for the purpose That crucifies your mind So con-convince your mirror As you've always done before Giving substance to shadows Giving substance ever more And you assume you got something to offer Secrets shiny and new But how much of you is repetition That you didn't whisper to him too?

Going down a dirty inner city side road I plotted Madness passed me by, she smiled hi I nodded Looked up as the sky began to cry She shot it. Met a girl from Dearborn, early six o'clock this morn A cold fact Asked about her bag, suburbia's such a drag Won't go back 'Cos Papa don't allow no new ideas here And now he sees the news, but the picture's not too clear. Mama, Papa, stop Treasure what you got Soon you may be caught Without it The curfew's set for eight Will it ever all be straight I doubt it. 7 jealous fools playing by her rules Can't believe her He feels so in between, can't break the scene It would grieve her And that's the reason why he must cry He'll never leave her. Crooked children, yellow chalk Writing on the concrete walk Their King died Drinking from a Judas cup, Looking down but seeing up Sweet red wine 'Cos Papa don't allow no new ideas here And now you hear the music But the words don't sound too clear. Mama, Papa, stop Treasure what you got Soon you may be caught Without it The curfew's set for eight Will it ever all be straight I doubt it. Going down a dusty, Georgian side road I wonder The wind splashed in my face Can smell a trace Of thunder.

The mayor hides the crime rate Council woman hesitates Public gets irate but forget the vote date Weatherman complaining, predicted sun, it's raining Everyone's protesting, boyfriend keeps suggesting You're not like all of the rest Garbage ain't collected, women ain't protected Politicians using, people they're abusing The mafia's getting bigger, like pollution in the river And you tell me that this is where it's at Woke up this morning with an ache in my head I splashed on my clothes as I spilled out of bed I opened the window to listen to the news But all I heard was the Establishment's Blues. Gun sales are soaring, housewives find life boring Divorce the only answer smoking causes cancer This system's gonna fall soon, to an angry young tune And that's a concrete cold fact The pope digs population, freedom from taxation Teeny Bops are uptight, drinking at a stoplight Miniskirt is flirting I can't stop so I'm hurting Spinster sells her hopeless chest Adultery plays the kitchen, bigot cops non-fiction The little man gets shafted, sons and monies drafted Living by a time piece, new war in the Far East Can you pass the Rorschach test? It's a hassle, it's an educated guess. Well, frankly I couldn't care less