The Story

[Verse 1] Like a child born into the world so cold No one to hear him cry Momma's gone He learns the evil ways of the street Change to an animal kill or be killed Typical scenario You know the drill It's an urban tragedy I hope he lives to be a man I hope he lives to see his babies grow The story goes and life unfolds The answers told and everybody knows Everybody knows Was made a fraud of love Hopeless and shamed A girl would learn to heal. She took a chance She fell so deep in love Home at last Till old jealous past showed up and crashed the party Blood on the dance floor Love got machine gun bloody He said that he would always be the one He said that he would never let her go The story goes The story goes The story goes And life unfolds, the answers told And everybody knows, everybody knows The Story goes, the story goes Everybody, and everybody knows