New Orleans

[Verse 1: Jelly Roll]

I was out here playin' devilish games

So it's only right I ended up set up in flames

I'm a grown man so I'll never complain

I'm addicted to pain and bein' left in the rain

I just sit and think about what I never became

I pray everyday that I'm ready to change

They say once it's bad that it's never the same

It's like my car broke down on memory lane

I can't wait 'til I face all the critics

That ain't never had to face the decisions that I had

To know if they had made the same ones shut the fuck up

You don't get paid to hate for a livin'

It's so easy to point your finger and judge

Hop in the pig pen and get to swingin' the mud

Everything that we was, everything we've become

Every war that we won, everything that I've done

Ha, Lord can you hear my prayer

It's somethin' 'bout the city I can feel I swear

I'm on my way God 'cause you're really there

Alabama to Mississippi, now I'm almost there

Before I felt your presence I was almost scared

A trade with the Devil I was almost shared

Now I'm headed to the delta where no one cares

Where our souls are buried and loneliness is shared

[Chorus: Jelly Roll]

In the darkness where the heartless and demons scream

Been tryin' to come clean, but it ain't what it seems

I found a nightmare in my dreams, down in New Orleans

The darkness where the heartless and demons scream

Been tryin' to come clean, but it ain't what it seems

I found a nightmare in my dreams, down in New Orleans

[Verse 2: Struggle Jennings]

Heard a rumor they was comin' for me

Saw a glimpse into the future I was smilin' countin' blood money

Walkin' down the dark alley street lights flickerin'

Everything around me seemed so different

Figurin' I must be lost, bad feelin' in my gut I gotta dust it off

I got a chip on my shoulder better brush it off

I keep reachin' for the gun havin' crazy thoughts

I heard a mother cryin' tears fallen from her old eyes

Pedal drops as a rose dies, see it clear with closed eyes

Gunshot then the crow flies, night fall and the smoke rise

Couldn't see the beauty inside all of the darkness

Vengeance and love I get confused with being heartless

Heartless cross me out for a couple dollars

Runnin' with the Devil and wonder what trouble follows

Standin' in the street, surrounded by my past

Every sin I ever committed, is takin' me at last

Saw karma's face in a black hoodie

With some gold teeth, and heard the police

Heard a loud scream, seen the barrel flash

Felt the sharp pain and now I can't breath

Woke up from a dream in New Orleans

Put my hands up as the choir sings

[Chorus: Jelly Roll]

In the darkness where the heartless and demons scream

Been tryin' to come clean, but it ain't what it seems

I found a nightmare in my dreams, down in New Orleans

The darkness where the heartless and demons scream

Been tryin' to come clean, but it ain't what it seems

I found a nightmare in my dreams, down in New Orleans

In the darkness where the heartless and demons scream

Been tryin' to come clean, but it ain't what it seems

I found a nightmare in my dreams, down in New Orleans

The darkness where the heartless and demons scream

Been tryin' to come clean, but it ain't what it seems

I found a nightmare in my dreams. down in New Orleans