Everything's Gonna Be Alright - Naughty By Nature

[Intro] 
Smooth it out 
This is a story about the drifter 
Who waited through the worst for the best in crosstown 
Who never planned on havin' so dick 
Why me huh? 

[Chorus] 
Everything's gonna be alright (alright) 
Everything's gonna be alright (alright) 
Everything's gonna be alright now (alright) 
Everything's gonna be alright (alright) 

[Verse 1] 
Some get a little and some get none 
Some catch a bad one and some leave the job half done 
I was one who never had and always mad 
Never knew my dad, mother fuck the fag 
Where anywhere I did pick up, flipped the clip up 
Too many stick-ups, 'cause niggas had the trigger hic-ups 
I couldn't get a job, nappy hair was not allowed 
My mother couldn't afford us all, she had to throw me out 
I walked the strip, which is a clip, who wanna hit? 
They got 'em quick, I had to eat, this money's good as spent 
I threw in graves, I wasn't paid enough 
I kept 'em long 'cause I couldn't afford a haircut 
I got laughed at, I got chumped, I got dissed 
I got upset, I got a tech in the banana clip 
Was down to throw the led to any tellin' crackhead 
I'm still livin' broke, so a lot of good it would've did 
Or done, if not for bad luck, I would have none 
Why did I have to live a life of such a bad one 
Why when I was a kid and played out was a sad one 
And always wanted to live like just a fat one 

[Chorus] 

[Verse 2] 
A ghetto bastard, born next to the projects 
Livin' in the slums with bums, I sit and watch them 
Why do I have to be like this? momma said I'm priceless 
So I am all worthless, starved, and it's just for being a nice kid 
Sometimes I wish I could afford a pistol then, though 
Last stop to hell, I would've ended things a while ago 
I ain't have jack but a black hat and napsack 
Four squad stolen in cars in a blackjack 
Drop that, and now you want me to rap and give? 
Say somethin' positive? Well positive ain't where I lived 
I lived right around a corner from west hell 
Two blocks from south shit, it was in a jail cell 
The sun never shone on my side of the street, see 
And only once or twice a week I would speak 
I walked alone, my state of mind was home sweet home 
I couldn't keep a girl, they wanted kids for cause of chrome 
Some life, it you ain't wear gold your style was old 
And you got more juice than dope for every bottle sold 
Hell no, I say there's gotta be a better way 
But hey, never gamble any game that you can't play 
I'm slowin' and flowin' and goin' in on and knowin' not now 
How will I do it, how will I make it? I won't, that's how 
Why me, huh? 

[Chorus] 

My third year into adulthood, and still a knucklehead 
I'm better off dead, huh, that's what my neighbor said 
I don't do jack but fightin', lightin' up the streets at night 
Playin' hide and seek with a machetti ??? like Freddy swipe 
Some say I'm rollin' on, nothin' but a dog now 
I answer that with a tech, who wanna bow-wow? 
'Cause I done been through more shit within the last week 
Than I fly flowin' in doo-doo on the concrete 
I been a deadbeat, dead to the world and dead wrong 
Since I was born that's my life, oh you don't know this song? 
So don't say jack, and please don't say you understand 
All that man to man talk just hot damn 
If you ain't live you couldn't feel it, so kill it, skillet 
And all that talk about it won't help it out, now will it? 
And illtown fell like I stuck-up props, got shot 
Don't worry, I hit Bob, flurry, and his punk-ass dropped 
But I'm the one who has been labeled as an outcast 
They changin' schools, I'm the misfit that will outlast 
But that's cool with the bull, smack 'em backwards 
That's what you get for fuckin' with a ghetto bastard 

[Outro] 
If you ain't ever been to the ghetto 
Don't ever come to the ghetto 
'Cause you ain't understand the ghetto 
And stay the fuck out of the ghetto 
Why me? 
(alright)