Gotta Know

You just gotta know

You ever feel like life just coming at ya a million miles an hour?

You just gotta know, you just gotta know

Somebody's holding it all together

Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs

People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around

I used to lurk around town trying to work around

Working so that

I could hit the ground with the perfect sound

Even perfect sound sounds like work

When you spend your time flirting with the crown in the perp

I was bound for berzerk with a layover in crazy

A lazy Jay-

Z hoping rock-a-fellas paid me

Or rocking ladies were caught me a

MercedesBut that whole dream was in '80's, baby

Missed that shot like the cop that's crooked

TV goes off, third eye still looking

Mom's still cooking,

I can always go home

Even though

I'm five years past grown

Here I go again,

I'm still chasing the wind,

I can't win

When it gets hot, it boils down to sin

If heaven ain't a gift, then

I ain't getting in, man

I can't even find the words for the way

I feelSo I paint a picture,

I paint a picture

I've been going down this road, seen some crazy things

So I paint a picture, you gots to see it

You just gotta know, you just gotta know

You just gotta know, you just gotta know

Yeah, I sit and hear the guitars play

Wonder if they could, what would stars say?

Or Venus and

Mars say, or say that we want it our way

Stars so desperate to shine that they go on living the hard way

The intellect to travel to

Mars but so blind

We worship

Venus but she don't even know who we are

And she never cared why? '

Cause she wasn't there

When I was trying to drown my sorrows in a pool of despair

I ain't perfect, sometimes

I feel worthless

Worthless than that is the image that

I'da purchased

Man, from the shades to the shirt, to the shoes

Just another fool trying to cover he's confused, that ain't cool

Sometimes

I hate the man in the mirror'

Cause I know he's a liar and a cheater and a killer

People say they love him but they love what he can give 'em

But deep inside he knows that there's a reason for him living

I can't even find the words for the way

I feelSo I paint a picture,

I paint a picture

I've been going down this road, seen some crazy things

So I paint a picture, you gots to see it

You just gotta know, you just gotta know

You just gotta know, you just gotta know

Uh, you know

I need you like

AquaDay without ya got me so nauseous

If I ain't cautious,

I'm gonna self-inflict my sickness

You know it's true, you as my witness

At how you witness, my inconsistent

Yes, the ovation when

I need your assistance

And I just gotta know that even though

I'm a misfit

I'm still worth more than calamity's

French kiss

Yes, I'm loved and

I'm pursued

And though

I can't feel it, still

I know that it's true

Somebody woke me up and yeah,

I know it was you

And yet I keep trying to steer clear of your view'

Cause if you get me,

I know that you got me

But I'm so insecure

I can't believe that you want me

But then I heard you went on your way to adopt me

Well, you can have my all if you swear you won't drop me'

Cause I gotta know, yeah

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You just gotta know, gotta know, gotta know that it's real

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