Mephistopheles

So here’s the deal, I’ll give you the worldIn exchange for your useless soulYeah, all the women, and the power and the moneyI get something you never used and can’t even see,What’s it good for, you can’t put it on your resumeCan’t buy food with it, or cash it in on pay day.Okay agreed, where do I sign, Where do I go to where is the lineJust a little blood, that’s all you need, Signature at the bottom; just legalities, no need to read.Now my girl is beautiful, my daughter is an angelMy life is looking up, cause I made it out of hellMade it out the ghetto, and struggles that I facedAnd all I had to do was give up something I don’t even missTake that shit, gimme what you oweGive me all the cash and the diamonds and the goldTake my soul, and shower me with riches,Keep me in silk, with arms full of bitchesI would say thank you but you said no needI wondered if you gave me too much but you said it’s what we agreedI get the world in the palm of my handYou get the uses of a rejected and useless manHello, hey where you been, it’s been a long timeIt’s about that time, remember what I told you when you signed on the lineYeah, but life’s just getting fun,My girl and I are getting married, and I’m gonna have a sonA little brother for my daughter, I can’t leave them nowThat’s not my problem bro, you got to go anyhowOk, maybe we can make a deal, what do you want, what do you need?I got all I want and all you got come on be realYou want to make an offer of what you don’t ownWhen all the things that you’ve been reapingAre the things that I have sown,The riches, the bitches, the cars, the homes, the love, the happiness,To you I bestowed, now give me what’s mine cause your soul I ownOkay okay, you made your point, But come on man, there has to be somethingSomething?  Hmm maybe so, something?Take this piece, take this hat, go to this place and blow out this niggas backLeave him on the street bleeding in front his homeBut before you leave him get close to his domeWhisper my name and tell him I said hiThat this is what niggas get when they don’t give me what’s mineWhat? You must be crazy, I’m not a killer,I’m not your errand boy, so you take back your cap fillerTake all the money and leave me alone,You sure that’s what you want?Yeah, just leave and don’t come back, leave me aloneAlone with no wife, she died that night, Baby in her womb, never seeing first light,My daughter never woke, to play with her dollsAlone is what I wanted and alone is what I gotThis cost is more than you saidYou said my soul is useless, but without it I’m deadI might be walking but my life is goneI might be breathing but my hope is tornMy palms are sweaty and my eyes are redI can’t pay you back no matter how much I’ve bledThe fear is more than I can bearAnd the tears are beginning to searBurning streams from my eyes to my chinI can’t bear the fury of things that live withinSwaying souls hanging from treesAll that is in me wants to be freeGive me death so that I may liveDrop me in the sky so that I may flyI don’t know how and won’t pretend to know whyAll that I know is that I’m a lost soul waiting to dieSitting on the side walk cause I don’t want to go homeThat’s when I feel cold steel up against my domeA whisp of air carrying a nameMephistopheles...A spark, then thunder and a calming painI lay on the street my life draining outNothing else to lose, no one in my houseThe gift that was mine I soul for a life that wasn’tWould have been better off in the ghetto as a peasant.Um, Parental Guidance suggested, may not be appropriate for young readers, or easily troubled souls... Written September 21st, 2001 © on Sep 21 2001 05:59 AM PST   0 • 13