And everywhere I go and everywhere I turn, the little things that hit gets me concerned.
Heard talk about a Reagan raising tax, said it'll trickle down but it never gets back.
He said you need the money for a nuclear race, spent 23 billion and we're still out of place.
Got 17 bombs and we just begun, when it boils down to war, all we need is one.
Scaring young men with the military draft, they start the trouble but we get it in the act.
The world's getting tough, so confusing at times, and it's a game called life that'll make you blow your mind.
Listen up fellas, this is what I've seen, people make a lot of money, doesn't know what it means.
There's guys up in harm that the people all know, do some shady deal, got lots of dough.
But they live to get high, and to damn fly, getting paid, getting laid, just getting by.
Don't see opportunity in a silver stand, and pass it on the way to the cocaine man.
Then come.
The stranger not from this land, the only difference is he has a plan.
He opens up the store, and what do you know, he just broke the apartment building right next door.
The world's getting tough, so confusing at times, and it's a game called life that'll make you blow your mind.
I need some help with my teacher plan, not asking for a handout, just a help.
Had 12 years of school and with all I've learned, I'm still confused about the way I should turn.
Computers are the answer, that's what they say, but everyone I know has chosen this way.
Took four years of college.
What did I find?
Was the smartest man on the unemployment line.
Standing on the corner with nothing to do.
Seven little pills of pink, black, red, and blue.
It's not that I want to, but I have to survive.
And beating the system's the only way to stay alive.
The only thing worse than doing the crime is when I get caught after two at a time.
So I pray that the Lord hasn't forgotten about me, and I'll keep on looking until I see him.
A few days later, a man sees me standing until he notices that I have been beaten up by three toners.


I've never seen it happen again.
We'll be right back.
We'll be right back.
You remember the old lady that lived next to me?
What about her?
Did you hear what happened?
What?
Man, it was terrible.
It went something like this.
The lady right next door got robbed today.
They took her jewels and all of her pay.
And somewhere in the terror, they took her life.
And out of here, she was the policeman's wife.
They stand in the alley till you turn your back.
When they catch you off guard, they come and attack.
And with each stupid act, sets you back ten years.
And when I walk downtown, it's me that they fear.
My daddy used to say, be proud.
They look around, but it's the brothers, not the others, attacking us down.
Population growing, kids thinking that they know it.
Smart to talk about that word, control.
At first, they were knowing.
Now, she is showing that they just found out that the water is cold.
One night, pleasure brought nine months of pain.
And one screaming child for the kids to name.
Five times, hey, no matter how they fought.
But that's the way it is when by life you're taught.
The world's getting tough, so confusing at times.
And it's a game.
A game.
A game.
A game.
A game called life.
That'll make me blow my mind.
Mind, mind.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.