The Truth Hurts

Put on yout hat and coat and take

A walk down the street

I think you're bound to be surprised

By all the bodies you meet

The bowels of the melting pot

Wreeks of shit

While a guy does your windows

With a sponge and his spit

The whores on the highway try to forget

That they jeopardized the lives of the guys they met

Some will shoot you up and stuff

You down a drain pipe hole

Cause they wouldn't touch your body

With a ten foot pole

Stick em up, stick em up, empty the drawer

Said the banger to the owner of the liquor store

I was purchasing some wine

When I heard the pops and a patron started screaming

"Someone call the cops"

The cops were called, and we were told to wait

But the death toll rose because the cops were late

The banger ran out,and he was gone in a flash

He got away with the murder,

And out with the cash

The truth hurts, the truth hurts,

And fairy tales are written like a book

The truth hurts, the truth hurts

Just open your eyes and take a look, son

Let's take a little trip to the lower side

There's a junkie in a place where the freaks reside

He shoots the shit, and gets the rent paid free

With government checks and lots ofAZT

He sees his kids about once a week

And his wife's on her death bed as we speak

She prays for little ones everyday

But the boy is infected and the girl's O.K.

Jackin' in the city while the city sleeps

You play lor fun and they play for keeps

There's a thief in the hood just waitin to pop

And a kid in a Cadillac tryin to cop

Herb and couple vials of coke

And he don't sweat it out cause the fine's a joke

In a matter of time it was a real done deal

It's back to the burbs because the shit ain't real

But the truth hurts, the truth hurts,

And fairy tales are written like a book

The truth hurts, the truth hurts,

just open your eyes and take a look, son