Working noon to midnight Walking through the moonlight Desmond rocking steady on my headphones Hit the spliff 007 on a secret solo session as I head home There's a shadow on the corner Is he friend? Is he foe? Is he cop? Is robber? Which is worse? I don't know But I've blocks to go before I hit my bedroom So now trudge through the sleet and the snow and the sludge I guess I wasn't ready for the bumrush cuz Next thing I know there's a knife stuck at my throat I'm looking at him and he's just like me And I laugh But he just don't see the irony And his eyes get hard and he asks me what's the joke And I said Don't you think if I had more than a little loose change I'd have put my sorry ass on the subway train Whatcha think you gonna score playing stickup-kid In the freezing winter rain Cuz the only people out on a night like this Are the broke and the mad and sick and the pissed Just wretched refuse circling the drain
Kid he don't believe me Said he gone a bleed me If I don't start to run my shit Digging through my pockets and he finds my half a spliff Man that's all I got to keep me going to the dawn You better know how fe chat and me say no pasaran! Vexed or perplexed but he's startin to catch my drift
I said you got two choices of what you can do You can stick me in the neck or we can share that spliff It'll be 420 or 187 all bets are in So he takes a step back and looks me in the eye Says alright homeboy lets get high And as he lights it up I can see he wears a grin He said real big move for a little white dude Is said you'd do the same if you knew what I knew The battle will be fought between the likes of me and you We smoked that shit til it was gone Shook hands and carried on Just wretched refuse shaking off the chains