i wear my scars like the rings on a pimp   i live life like the captain of a sinking ship   the one thing that i can guarantee   i'm like a stepping razor, i suggest you stay fair with me   been payin dues for a decade plus,   before that i was just another face on the bus   tappin my foot, to the beat on the radio   dreamin 'bout the mic and the money and the ladies   oh mom, i promise im gonna be large   someday im gonna stop tryin to borrow your car   gonna go far, with charisma and skill   until they put my face on a million dollar bill   atmosphere, its just a ten letter word   discretion is the name of my cement-feathered bird   and if you didnt hear, fuck whatevers heard   i think you got the sickness i suggest you get it cured   caught up in the mix, of a bottle full of fix   im gonna hobble down the street 'til i reach knob creek   its not that i dont like you, i just dont wanna speak   you fuckin freak   now keep your days out my week   the world keeps a balance, through mathematics   defined by whatever youve added and subtracted   im pushin on the hammer, to trigger the brain   embrace how i live it, god loves ugly      chorus   god loves ugly...      once upon a time in minneapolis, yo   i damn near had to steal the show   i stepped on the stage, who is it?   my names slug ive come to kill a couple minutes   whats up with the way, that everybody gathers around each other   so they can steal each others sound   if its all about gettin down with the get down   how long i gotta wait for these fools to sit down?   appears more clear in its simplest form   nobody sees tears when youre standing in a storm   abandoning the norm, and handling the harvest   measuring the worth by the depth of the hardships   i welcome all the hatred you can aim at my name   i held on to the sacred ways of how to play the game   when the soldiers started runnin short on rations   i began tappin the egg, to spark the hatchin   make it happen   and take this captain to the gallows   i keep steerin us into an area thats shallow   talkin to my shadow, he advised me not to worry   he said i should plant my tree and let it rise out of the fury   so give me some light, a little love and some liquid   im gonna creep through the night   and put a plug in the spigot   and when the water grows   and the dam starts to overflow   ill float atop the flood, holding on to my ugly      chorus      why scream, when you can lose yourself inside the wide-screen   let life be a bowl of melted ice cream   or be the deer thats caught in my high beams   im rollin with the lights on, scared stiff   reality is just too much to bear with   paranoid, walkin around careless   no wonder youre in love with your therapist   go to sleep my little time bomb