Something better than this Someplace I'd like to go To let all I've learned Tell me what I know About the kind of life I never thought I'd live Till the ugly truth Showed me what it did Let it pass on the side of the road What a friend could tell me now On a borrowed dime In a different light You might see what The other side looks like In a random room Behind an iron door Kick an empty can Across an empty floor Let it pass on the side of the road What a friend could tell me now

Caught up on the wrong side of the law Got caught, got caught, got caught Caught up on the wrong side of the law I got caught on the wrong side of the law Say they charging me for marijuana Like I don't need to reach home 'til tomorrow's Sun goes up Actually they the wrong side of the law Can't be charging me for marijuana Like I don't need to reach home till tomorrow's Sun goes up Sometimes the dragon and the beast Manifests itself inna the form of the police Spot check deh pon the streets, "Out the car" A so dem greet me "Pass the Rasta colour bag deh make we see it deh" Me make them know say the ragga ragga hair match the Macka wah appear In the back of wah me steering No, a no even no weight, a hundred dollar worth But the chalice in the bag did make the matter worse Them say"book him... felony possession." What kind o' law this? Hold on, no Yard this? Dem gimme court date just fi frustrate me That amuse me, mi say "Make sure is a Tuesday" I got caught on the wrong side of the law Say they charging me for marijuana Like I don't need to reach home 'til tomorrow's Sun goes up Actually they the wrong side of the law Can't be charging me for marijuana Like I don't need to reach home till tomorrow's Sun goes up "'Cause I'm busy on Wednesday morning. Thursday morning too." Plus a Good Friday, that mean if dem hold I fi the weekend All 'til Monday night me a sleep in deh Then Dutty pree to me it come in like a resurrection So me switch the rhetoric in another direction Me never know the officer name, #11747 a the number wah them give him Tell me fi sign and go pon me way Inspector walk in like him have sup'n fi say Him say: "You want back you weed?" Then I say no but truthfully I think my chalice is due to me I got caught on the wrong side of the law Say they charging me for marijuana Like I don't need to reach home 'til tomorrow's Sun goes up Actually they the wrong side of the law Can't be charging me for marijuana Like I don't need to reach home till tomorrow's Sun goes up Him kiss him teeth and run me out o'the station Mi walk out a feel a different elation, no Jubilation is the word that I mean Because him think him achieve Think say that grieve me Go back in the car, you know what greet me The one pound under the seat beneath me, believe me Him think him catch me off guard the whole night Him never know Diggy en garde! Sword fight 'Cause I will give up a hundred dollar bag and a chalice any day Fi a pound wah mi save Dutty say him have a story fi tell Me have a story fi sell, fi sell, fi sell I got caught on the wrong side of the law Say they charging me for marijuana Like I don't need to reach home 'til tomorrow's Sun goes up Actually they the wrong side of the law Can't be charging me for marijuana Like I don't need to reach home till tomorrow's Dub style, dub style, dub style!

It's dreamy weather We're on You waved your crooked wand Along an icy pond With a frozen moon A murder of silhouette Crows I saw And the tears on my face And the skates on the pond They spell Alice I disappear in your name But you must wait for me Somewhere across the sea There's a wreck of a ship Your hair is like meadow grass On the tide And the raindrops on my window And the ice in my drink Baby all I can think of Is Alice Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up Around the pier And so a secret kiss Brings madness with the bliss And I will think of this When I'm dead in my grave Set me adrift And I'm lost Over there And I must be insane To go skating on your name And by tracing it twice I fell through the ice Of Alice And so a secret kiss Brings madness with the bliss And I will think of this When I'm dead in my grave Set me adrift And I'm lost Over there And I must be insane To go skating on your name And by tracing it twice I fell through the ice Of Alice There's only Alice

Red Pants and the Sugarman in the Temple Street gloom Drinkin' Chivas Regal in a four dollar room Just another dead soldier in a powder blue night Sugarman says, "Baby, everything's alright" Goin' downtown, downtown, town Goin' down, downtown Montclaire de Havelin doin' the St.Vitus dance Lookin' for someone to chop the lumber in his pants How am I gonna unload all this ice and all this mink? All the traffic in the streets but it's so hard to think Goin' downtown, downtown, town Goin' down, downtown Frankie wearin' lipstick, Pierre Cardin I swear to God, I seen him holdin' hands with Jimmy Bond Sally's high on crank and hungry for some sweets Fem in the sheets but she butch in the streets Goin' downtown, downtown, town Goin' down, downtown It's cool of the evening, the sun's goin' down Want to hold you in my arms, I want to push you around I want to break your bottle and spill out all your charms Come on baby, we'll set off all the burglar alarms Goin' downtown, downtown, town Goin' down, downtown Red Pants and the Sugarman in the temple street gloom Are drinkin' Chivas Regal in a four dollar room Just another dead soldier in a powder blue night Red Pants turn to Sugarman and says, "Everything's alright" Goin' downtown, downtown, town Goin' down, downtown

Lonely, lonely, lonely Lonely eyes, lonely face Lonely, lonely in your place, lonely Lonely, lonely eyes, lonely face Lonely, lonely in your place I thought that I knew All that their was to lonely Lonely, lonely, lonely Melanie Jane won't feel the pain Lonely, lonely Lonely, lonely eyes, lonely face Lonely, lonely in your place I thought that I knew All that their was to lonely Lonely, lonely Lonely eyes, lonely face Lonely, lonely in your place And I still love you I still love you Lonely, lonely