Resist the temptation of the beast   You'll slip and lose your grip and forever fall asleep   The venom is contagious, beware of its spell   What you thought would be heaven, turns out to be hell      I wonder if she knows the devil's taken off her clothes   Deep into her soul, slow, now he's in control   Poppas doing worse, a victim of the deadly curse   Wouldn't be the first to leave the ghetto in a hearse and oh, how it hurts      The children pay the biggest price   Never get the chance to grow up with a happy life   Blame it on the rock, but we know that's a bunch of crap   Someone's at the top supplying us with much crack      Keep them in a daze, don't let them see the other way   Let 'em all get paid, won?t live to see another day   See they never got a breath of the sunshine   Now the kids addicted and only hit it one time   We are destined to be dead as a nation   Don't let it come to this, resist the temptation      Gamble for your soul with the devil   You wonder how low can you go before you reach the lowest level   As everybody sits and stares   There's no use looking in you eyes ?cause there isn't anybody there      And though it may make you wanna cry   Got you stealing from your family and you don't even know why   I guess you think they will understand   You feel cold ?cause you sold your soul to the dope-man      Now there's no turning back, in fact   It's decided that would live and die for the crack   You got no friends ?cause you cheated them all   You feel lonely, low, defeated and small      No one was there when I took the wrong path   And nobody cared if I died in a blood bath   But is this my destiny?   Tell the Lord they got my mind but he can have the rest of me      ?Cause I'm ready to end it all   One bullet to the brain, forgive my sins and all   I didn't mean to be a bother   A failure as a son, a husband and a father      I wish I could turn back the time   Go back and let it find why I let it crack my mind   And my only explanation, it came to this   Resist the temptation