[00:23.55]Put on yout hat and coat and take[00:24.66]A walk down the street[00:25.68]I think you're bound to be surprised[00:26.97]By all the bodies you meet[00:28.65]The bowels of the melting pot[00:30.09]Wreeks of ****[00:30.60]While a guy does your windows[00:32.37]With a sponge and his spit[00:33.18]The whores on the highway try to forget[00:36.15]That they jeopardized the lives of the guys they met[00:39.36]Some will shoot you up and stuff[00:40.44]You down a drain pipe hole[00:41.58]Cause they wouldn't touch your body[00:43.26]With a ten foot pole[00:45.60]Stick em up, stick em up, empty the drawer[00:48.00]Said the banger to the owner of the liquor store[00:50.04]I was purchasing some wine[00:50.97]When I heard the pops and a patron started screaming"Someone call the cops"[00:56.28]The cops were called, and we were told to wait[00:58.05]But the death toll rose because the cops were late[01:00.96]The banger ran out,and he was gone in a flash[01:03.42]He got away with the murder,[01:05.16]And out with the cash[01:06.09]The truth hurts, the truth hurts,[01:09.42]And fairy tales are written like a book[01:12.75]The truth hurts, the truth hurts[01:14.61]Just open your eyes and take a look, son[01:28.29]Let's take a little trip to the lower side[01:30.51]There's a junkie in a place where the freaks reside[01:34.14]He shoots the ****, and gets the rent paid free[01:35.34]With government checks and lots of[01:38.91]AZTHe sees his kids about once a week[01:41.19]And his wife's on her death bed as we speak[01:44.04]She prays for little ones everyday[01:46.56]But the boy is infected and the girl's[01:48.63]O.K.Jackin' in the city while the city sleeps[01:51.42]You play lor fun and they play for keeps[01:54.36]There's a thief in the hood just waitin to pop[01:57.45]And a kid in a[01:58.02]Cadillac tryin to cop[01:58.53]Herb and couple vials of coke[02:02.07]And he don't sweat it out cause the fine's a joke[02:04.68]In a matter of time it was a real done deal[02:09.30]It's back to the burbs because the **** ain't real[02:10.83]But the truth hurts, the truth hurts,[02:13.83]And fairy tales are written like a book[03:42.00]The truth hurts, the truth hurts,just open your eyes and take a look, son