You were laying on the carpet Like you're satin in a coffin You said, "Do you believe what you're sayin'?" Yeah right now, but not that often Are you
I stand off to one side counting the casualties As you will see in the morning the newspapers lied Difficult to say the truth in times like these. You
I got the bad news this morning I think I'm gonna have to leave right away Oh Lord, I think I'm gonna have to leave right away You know I hope and I
Well, I've got some good news, can't wait to tell you I realized I missed you, since we've been apart I just needed time to make up my mind But I'm in
On some mentioning of thoughts and of mid-twenties tangent plots Those sad feathery talks that float on all that Tattered teenage applause clapped out
This is not the way I saw anything happening I'm only older, screaming over destiny tonight Don't hear my laugh echoing through your jealousy I just hear
Gimme the bad news Yea, tell it to me straight I can take it I'll start on the countdown I've got about a minute left for you Someday, I'm gonna laugh
You're making this hard for me I'm cleaning the mess I'm in Please don'y pretend 'Coz you're just the same like me Like me What did those angry stares
Every time I turn on the TV click to the news and I see is bad things happening People dying and people killing and everybody amplifying destruction
Lloyd Banks in the house, bad news Tony Yayo in the house, bad news 50 cent in the house, bad news Whenever 50 around it's bad news Tray pound's in the
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Yeah, well, I picked peaches in Georgia And I've lumber jacked in Maine Been hired and fired and been in jail In 'bout every state you can name Hell,
Trouble, more trouble can you get anymore Slow bubble boiling on the bedroom floor Lonely ain't lonely, someone calling at the door Someone lovely and
Sorrow comes like a thief in the night and leaves me cold and sad Lord please Lord send a word from her cause I need some good news bad Why did she take
Time, no sense of time No sense of no one Me and the endless sky Scenes, the fading scenes The world that I've seen A shade of transiency Heaven, back
Bad news if he could choose Would he refuse to be the bearer It seems what he has to do Could not be any clearer It's a job he can't neglect Its consequences
[chorus] Brigade jump on a couple of punks Nigga, we bad news (we bad news, nigga) To beef for real If you step our way it's on Anybody, everybody (oh
I got some bad news, here comes the hit squad I got some bad news, here comes the hit squad I got some bad news, here comes the hit squad I got some bad