The complications of the mind,
The incisions of a bad background.
Beaten and abused as a child,
Where was my youth? In the streets of Harlem,
In the streets of New York City.
Clinging to the back of busses to get home
Fall off, and I'm dead
(I saw my friend run over by a car,
falling from the back of a bus.
From then on I walked home from school,
The Bronx Zoo just four blocks away,
In the Upper Bronx.
Can you see where I'm coming from?
The complications of the mind.
Daddy beating Mom
Because of his bad trip on heroin.
Damn!! I've seen it all.
The complications of the mind.