I want you to close your eyes   And vision the most beautiful place in the world   If you in the hood on the ghetto street corner   Come on this journey, the best journey   Some mansion, acres of land and swimming pools   And all that, check it out      I'm capable of anythin', my imagination can give me wings   To fly like doves over the streets watchin' many things   Kids walkin' home from school on drug blocks   Missionaries pass out papers that read, "Love God"   I see faces, cases, judges and jurors   Masons, lawyers and cops   I watch because every thug's face is my mirror   But this was one in particular      This kid, he was the vintage stick em up pro   16 years old, did his jail sentence, nowhere to go   Every mornin' calls his comrade   To come and get him to smoke   He's insane, already gone mad   Blames himself for his setbacks   Dangerous street corners where his sets at   Sling from dust to dawn      Detectives act like they maniacs   Chasin' him, his ass was flarin'   Smokin' like a chimney on Remy   Of course he's not carin'   He need a place to go   To keep his mind expandin'   I give him a helpin' hand   And, bring him out to Thugz Mansion      Every corner, every city there's a place where life's a little easy   Little Hennessey, laid back and cool every hour, 'cause it's all good   Leave all the stress from the world outside   Every wrong done will be alright, nothin' but peace, love   And street passion, every ghetto needs a Thugz Mansion      Dear Momma, don't cry, your baby boy's doin good   Tell the homies, I'm in heaven and they ain't got hoods   Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook   Drippin peppermint schnapps with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke   Then some lady named Billie Holiday sang   Sittin' there kickin' it with Malcolm, 'til the day came   Little Latasha, sho' grown, tell the lady in the liquor store   That she's forgiven, so come home      Maybe in time you'll understand, only God can save us   When Miles Davis' cuttin' lose with the band   Just think all the people that you knew in the past   That passed on, they in heaven, found peace that last   Picture a place that they exist, together   There has to be a place better than this, in heaven   So right before I sleep, dear God, what I'm askin'   Remember this face save me a place, in Thugz Mansion      Every corner, every city there's a place where life's a little easy   Little Hennessey, laid back and cool every hour, 'cause it's all good   Leave all the stress from the world outside   Every wrong done will be alright, nothin' but peace, love   And street passion, every ghetto needs a Thugz Mansion      A place where death doesn't reside, just thugs who collide   Not to start beef but spark trees, no cops rollin' by   No policemen, no homicide, no chalk on the streets   No reason, for nobody's momma to cry   See I'm a good guy, I'm tryin' to stick around for my daughter   But if I should die, I know all of my albums support her   This whole year's been crazy, asked the Holy Spirit to save me   Only difference from me and Ossie Davis, gray hair maybe      'Cause I feel like my eyes saw too much sufferin'   I'm just twenty-some-odd years, I done lost my mother   And I cried tears of joy, I know she smiles on her boy   I dream of you more, my love goes to Afeni Shakur   'Cause like Ann Jones, she raised a ghetto king in a war   And just for that alone she shouldn't feel no pain no more   'Cause one day we'll all be together, sippin heavenly champagne   What angels saw, with golden wings in Thugz Mansion      Every corner, every city there's a place where life's a little easy   Little Hennessey, laid back and cool, every hour, 'cause it's all good   Leave all the stress from the world outside   Every wrong done will be alright, nothin' but peace, love   And street passion, every ghetto needs a Thugz Mansion