They say trust your gut but I've got two
Now what, what in the world am I supposed to do
Poverty on my left, jealousy on my right
Since you broke up with me baby, girl aint no reason to fight
Well might dont make right but right aint that strong
Unless you've got some kind of survival kit like a song
Well long tall Sally was an alley cat
Short fat Betty wasn't ready to be where it's at
Where I am, stuck in the middle with a fiddle
Playing little ditties to be something pretty in this ugly city
If a committee decided right here tonight
To redivide up all the wealth
In the name of the health of the united
neighbourhoods could it save the day
pave the way for some revolutionary harmoney
I can't say -- but how 'bout you?
If you were the man of the hour in power what would you do
With all this violence disease bad luck and polution
Would you give me five bucks if I had a solution
Well that ain't much to pay for eternal Saaaalvation
But con artists grow like clovers in this overstuffed nation
and so do the young gems out the dung heap
People ready time and again to stand up, take a leap, and say
123, follow me,
brother never works but
234, just ignore,
the problems even worse than
456, what's the trick
to achieving the right mix of a quick fix and a slow struggle
The world works one by one about five million at a time
I can make you think with a handshake /
I can make you drink up my rhyme
Do you want a firm grip or soft skin how about a tough tip I'll
tell you where I 've been
I've been all over the globe and around the block
People don't answer the door just because you knock
But if you stop giving then the dying starts
Sometime it feels like just living is a dying art
I've got a lion heart and a pair of monkey hands
'long with funky understanding of what it means to be a man
In a land where overblown testosterone has shown us all
How much bad one man on a throne can do acting like a lone star
For my own part I work hard, fight hard, play hard, love hard
(My people) represent my back yard
No meat for today though honestly I love the taste
Because we've got to find a way that we can cut down on the waste
Instead of cutting down the forest or some other holy place
For grazing cows it's amazing how every time you take a step
There's some molecule across the earth that somehow gets affected
And the rule seems to be once you've perfected an art
Or finished school you'd be a fool to not standup and play the part
But what if you don't see how all the jigsaw pieces fit
and you don't want to be a mister who just takes a share of it
by taking care of it better be-ware of it
and if you dare to quit be sure that (you) abandon it
don't hurt it more than you help it
if you feel it help me tell it like it (is)
