When I was little I wanted to become an architect
Always wanted to build
Everything around was a wreck
My brother’s clique on coke
Selling stolen gears and dope
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Those who terrorized the coast
One night his friend asked me if he could borrow
My baseball bat
I was a young dude so just like that
I wanted to play ball with them
They all laughed and left
Honestly I didn’t quite get it
Till the next morning when I read the paper
And it said someone got beat down with a slugger
Shit in one sec it all made sense
I was sitting at a table with a bunch of gangsters
I remember saying to myself
There’s no way I wanna one day look like any one of them
I was starting in life and had the worst examples
Needed to find a place in my head to set the tempo

Started making music to flee a life I didn’t want
Never paid off but I never ended in the joint
The scenario that was set for me
Materialized into being totally free
Safe & Sound

Those fuckers never stopped fucking around
One day we were a jeans warehouse
Can you count?
The next day we were fucking Videotron
If you needed cable
They’d hook you up
You know the song
Strippers with stage names
I recall one called Melody
That fucked my brother but wasn’t so sweet
All they did was get trashed all time
Bottles of Jack Daniels and
So much hash in aluminum foil
Bricks of them
With golden stamps
Bums and tramps
Shit was so dumb
No curtains in the windows
And knives burning pounds of drugs right in the middle of the table
I saw so much shit in the 80’s
But I wasn’t even impressed cause it all seemed normal to me
My room had posters of Samantha Fox totally naked
Though I wasn’t old enough to fuck

Started making music to flee a life I didn’t want
Never paid off but I never ended in the joint
The scenario that was set for me
Materialized into being totally free
Safe & Sound

I was introduced to heavy metal at a young age
Wanted to get in my room
But got kicked in the face
With a steel toe boot
You can’t get in here
My brother could get so rude
When he was totally wasted
Led Zep playing so loud in the back
And don’t start crying
Can you hear the words on the track?
You can hear the devil when you play the vinyl backwards
I remember thinking their shit sounded so awkward
The first BMX I got was robbed
And was patiently waiting for me in the bathtub
The morning of my birthday
It felt like an earthquake
Who in hell gives that kind of gifts anyway
I got a million stories like that I just can’t make up
To get out of that shit hole became my Stanley Cup
I was sent to different places when my mom got sick
And I found peace of mind discovering new music

Started making music to flee a life I didn’t want
Never paid off but I never ended in the joint
The scenario that was set for me
Materialized into being totally free
Safe & Sound