Date Published: January 7, 1995
A perfect world.
Is that what you’re asking?
Well, you can forget it
Cuz it ain’t going to happen.
This ain’t no Paradise, this is reality
So you can take off those rose colored glasses.
You think I chose this lifestyle?
This life chose me.
It called me and my youngest years
Hard Times didn’t move me
and not my mama’s tears.
It’s been my best friend.
It’s all I know and all I see everyday.
Now you come along to tell me
I can change… Turn over a new Leaf.
Take off yesterday’s dirty clothes
And put on clean ones today?
I hear what you’re saying
But I can’t see it happening.
It’s a cool idea for someone else
But this is my life.
So you can take off those rose colored glasses.