California (Hustle & Flow)

[Verse 1]

Running around like you're front-page news

Lonely eyes and your motorcycle boots

Tattooed heart and your jet-black hair

Running 'round like you don't care

[Chorus]

Take me down

Take me on down the line

[Verse 2]

Well, I was born, baby, with nothing to lose

But the Black man taught me how to sing the blues

Made a little life out of rock 'n' roll

And that crazy California hustle and flow

[Chorus]

Take me down

Take me on down the line

Shake me down

Shake me on down the line

[Verse 3]

I went too fast with that rhythm and booze

Almost ended up dead like all those other fools

Everyone's got some sort of ball and chain

What's life without a little pain?

[Chorus]

Take me down

Take me on down the line

Shake me down

Shake me on down the line

[Bridge]

Living in a Hollywood movie dream (Movie dream, yeah)

And I'm still reaching for the stars (Reaching for the stars)

Life gets hard and then it gets good, yeah-ah, yeah

Like I always knew it would

[Verse 1]

Running around like you're front-page news

Lonely eyes and your motorcycle boots

Tattooed heart and your jet-black hair

Running 'round like you don't care

[Chorus]

Take me down

Take me on down the line

Shake me down

Shake me on down the line

[Chorus]

Take me down

Take me on down the line

Shake me down

Shake me on down the line

[Outro]

(Ooh-ooh)

(Ooh-ooh)

(Ooh-ooh)

(Ooh-ooh)

(On down the line)

(On down the line)

(On down the line, yeah)

(Ooh, ooh, on down the line)

(Ooh, ooh, on down the line)

(Oh, yeah)

(Ooh, ooh, on down the line)

(Oh, whoa, oh-whoa)

(Ooh, ooh, on down the line)