At the record company meeting
On their hands – a dead star
And oh, the plans they weave
And oh, the sickening greed

At the record company party
On their hands – a dead star
The sycophantic slags all say :
“I knew him first, and I knew him well”


Re-issue ! Re-package ! Re-package !
Re-evaluate the songs
Double-pack with a photograph
Extra Track (and a tacky badge)


A-list, playlist
“Please them , please them !”
“Please them !”
(sadly, THIS was your life)


But you could have said no
If you’d wanted to
You could have said no
If you’d wanted to


BPI, MTV, BBC
“Please them ! Please them !”
(sadly this was your life)


But you could have said no
If you’d wanted to
You could have walked away
…Couldn’t you ?


I touched you at the soundcheck
You had no real way of knowing
In my heart I begged “Take me with you …
I don’t care where you’re going…”


But to you I was faceless
I was fawning, I was boring
Just a child from those ugly new houses
Who could never begin to know


Who could never really know
Oh …


Best of ! Most of !
Satiate the need
Slip them into different sleeves !
Buy both, and feel deceived


Climber – new entry, re-entry
World tour ! (“media whore”)
“Please the Press in Belgium !”
(THIS was your life…)


And when it fails to recoup ?
Well, maybe :
You just haven’t earned it yet, baby


I walked a pace behind you at the soundcheck
You’re just the same as I am
What makes most people feel happy
Leads us headlong into harm


So, in my bedroom in those ‘ugly new houses’
I danced my legs down to the knees
But me and my ‘true love’
Will never meet again …


At the record company meeting
On their hands – at last ! – a dead star !
But they can never taint you in my eyes
No, they can never touch you now


No, they cannot hurt you, my darling
They cannot touch you now
But me and my ‘true love’
Will never meet again

I see a red door
And I want it painted black
No colors anymore
I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by
Dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head
Until my darkness goes

I see a line of cars
And they’re all painted black
With flowers and my love
Both never to come back
I see them turn their heads
Quickly look away
Like a newborn baby
It just happens every day

I look inside my self
See my heart is back
I see my red door
And I want it painted black
Maybe then I’ll fade away
And not have to face the facts
It’s not easy facing up
When your whole world is black

No more will my green sea
Go turn a deeper blue
I could not foresee
This thing happening to you.
If I look hard enough
Into the setting sun,
My love will laugh with me
Before the morning comes

(Wanna see…)

I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes

I see a line of cars and they’re all painted black
With flowers and my love both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a new born baby it just happens ev’ry day

I look inside myself and see my heart is black
I see my red door and it has been painted black
Maybe then I’ll fade away and not have to face the facts
It’s not easy facin’ up when your whole world is black

No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue
I could not foresee this thing happening to you

If I look hard enough into the settin’ sun
My love will laugh with me before the mornin’ comes

I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes

Hmm, hmm, hmm,…

I wanna see it painted, painted black
Black as night, black as coal
I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky
I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black
Yeah!

What’s your name, my name is Pain
Where do you live, I live anyplace
Where were you born, in the state of fear
How old are you, nineteen hundred and ninety four years

What’s your plan, my plan is pain
When will you leave, I’ll never go away
How will you breathe, you’ll give me life
How will you see, sitting in the temple right between your eyes

My name is Pain, you belong to me
You’re all I wanted, I’m all you’ll ever be
From the beginning in a world without end
I am the air, I am Pain

Pain is love, Pain is pure
Pain is sickness, Pain is the cure
Pain is death, Pain is religion
Pain is life, Pain is television

Pain walks, Pain crawls
Pain is peace, Pain is war
Where were you born, in the state of fear
How old are you, nineteen hundred and ninety four years

My name is Pain, you belong to me
You’re all I ever wanted, I’m all you’ll ever be
From the beginning in a world without end
I am the air, I am Pain

I feel your pain
Almost lost it all
You are all the same
The wounded bleed to death
Tarnish my name
You deserve nothing at all…
You knew that life was a game…
You deserve nothing at all…
You must endure your own PAIN!
Life in the dark without a light
Hollow empty
Let?s get it right
You deserve nothing at all…
You knew that life was a game…
You deserve nothing at all…
Red dress serpent…
Just stop it..
Just stop it…
Red dress serpent and you?ll stay here!
You deserve nothing at all…
You knew that life was a game…
You deserve nothing at all…
YOU MUST ENDURE YOUR OWN PAIN!

Can you feel the pain?
Can you feel the pain?
Can you feel the pain?
The pain in my heart

Can you can you feel it?
Tell me can you feel it?
Can you can you feel it?
The pain in my heart

Pain pain pain
Can you feel my pain
Dropping down on you
Like drops of rain
Soaking wet, just full of tears
The pain I felt when you?re not here
All around, I start to found
A face full of tears, looking like a clown
So, you can?t feel this pain that I?m feeling
If you could girl, you would go reel it
Ain?t no feelin?, I?m gonna start illing
You think it?s love?
I think it?s ill so…
Get together, let?s stay together
Checking storms and all kinds of weather
Don?t leave me here, just all alone
Without your love, I?m not so strong
Just one question?s in my brain…can you feel this pain?

Can you feel the pain?
Can you feel the pain?
Can you feel the pain?
Is it still the same?
I wake up, early in the morning
A page still the same, my heart still failing
Oh my God, what could it be?
Is it deep love, or is it just me?
Damn girl, I loved you from the start
Can you feel the pain? The pain in my heart
Ain?t no feelin?, I?m gonna start illing
You think it?s love?
I think it?s ill so…
Get together, let?s stay together
Checking storms and all kinds of weather
Don?t leave me here, just all alone
Without your love, I?m not so strong
Just one question?s in my brain…can you feel this pain?

There’s times in my life where I just
I just wanna run away I just
I just wish the pain would stop
I don’t wanna cry no more
I wish the pain would go away
Start a day bad hands make it hard to deal
Sometimes I wanna pull it end it all with a bullet
Hard to live life to the fullest with all this bullshit
Mad as fuck a nigga had enough
From jump street saw my father murder massacre slain
One shot took half of his brain, I recapture the pain
Twenty-three years, three when it happened
Twenty-six now, still I can’t stop the tears
Then my mood switch, thinkin about this sheisty bitch
Kinda funny cause they fake it when they callin you honey
On your dick when they think a nigga, might be rich
That’s when I shit, cause I know you fuck with me for my money
Learned the hard way, ain’t no correctin the grief
Baby moms starts sexin, my so-called beef
Don’t give a fuck if they Marked me For Death like Steven
or relievin your breathin, long as I’m even ‘fore I’m leavin
Pain…
I wish this pain, would go away
We’re talkin about the kind of pain that
I wish this pain, would go away
just gets all up in your heart, and in your soul
I wish this pain, would go away
The kind of pain that makes you feel like you can’t go on no more
I wish this pain, would go away
The kind of pain that I wouldn’t wish on anyone
I can’t relate to them cats who hold gats at the gate
Is it my fate, am I that nigga, that they love to hate
Solely, slowly, cause I rock a Roley they want my brain gone
Cause of a fuckin chain on?
Migraine’s on, now the pain’s warm, I stagger
And I’m hopin I don’t know the cat with the dagger
Penetratin my heart, rushed thoughts etched in grief
To the City College deceased may you rest in peace
To the families, I never meant to cause no pain
I know the truth, but if you want, then I shoulder the blame
Overcome at times by uncontrollable flames, and multiple pains
Now it seems like I’m goin insane
For the love of you and hip-hop I expand the news
But before my shit drops, I stand accused
Don’t you think I wish we all was rich?
One for all it’s pain to see your people when they all can’t ball
The pain..
I wish this pain, would go away
I wish this pain, would go away
I don’t wanna give no more pain
I wish this pain, would go away
I don’t wanna receive no more pain
I wish this pain, would go away
God, please take the pain away
I can still hear the shots that left my man Big layin
on my knees cryin and prayin, then I said
“God why? Got to know how hard we try
Don’t let him die, please don’t let my nigga be dead”
But it was too late, California sealed his fate
Gone now, hard to move on now, fuck making songs now
Wish I could die, I could fly
If they don’t give a fuck, fuck it why should I?
That’s when Big spoke, pulled up in a glistening 3
with platinum wings and said, “Puff listen to me”
He puts his hands on my head and said “I live through you
Make hits continuous, this is what we do
I know it might be strenous and times is hard
Just keep the faith cause now we rhyme with God
Plus you owe it to yourself and don’t forget the kids”
That’s when I opened up my eyes and new Bad Boy lives
I wish this pain, would go away
I wish this pain, would go away
One day the pain is gonna stop
I wish this pain, would go away
One day there’s gonna be no more pain
I wish this pain, would go away
[Notorious B.I.G.]
I’m tellin you man
now don’t let these motherfuckers fuck your shit up God
I don’t give a fuck WHO it is
Don’t let em fuck yo’ paper man, please Big
Focus your mind man, do your albums, make them hot joints
man fuck these niggaz man
Fuck these niggaz man
And I’ma tell the same thing to you
When you get your shit done,

The seas have parted,
the endings started,
the sky has turned to black.
A killing spree through eternity,
the devil stabs you in the back,
It’s midnight now you must escape somehow,
torture is his leisure,
don’t try to hide he’ll make you subside,
as he exchanges pain for pleasure,

[chorus]
Pain for pleasure, he’s the hunter you’re the game,
Pain for pleasure, Satan is his name!”

Pain in my heart
Treatin’ me poor
Where can my baby be
Lord, no one knows

Pain in my heart
Won’t let me sleep
Where can my baby be
Lord, where is she

And one day
My days are gettin’ tough
Won’t you come back, come back, come back, baby
Lord

Pain in my heart
Won’t let me be
Oh, oh, oh, oh, I wake up restless night in misery
Lord

Won’t somebody stop this pain

Lord, one day
My days are gettin’ tough
Won’t you love me, love me, love me, baby

Pain in my heart
Pain in my heart
Somebody stop this
Pain in my heart
It’s killin’ me baby
This pain in my heart
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Pain in my heart
This pain in my heart

Inhibition and indecision
do you realize its all the same
Cowardice, prejudice
do you realize its all the same

Liberty, Poverty
do you realize its all the same
angelisize, and generalize
do you realize that its all the same
that its all the same
that its all the same..so

I don’t wanna feel this pain
I don’t wanna feel this pain
Everyday I see these same four walls that keep me here
and I wanna change the things that hurt
and I wanna end this constant fear
so I say
I don’t wanna feel this pain

Inhibition and indecision
do you realize its all the same
tell the lies (tell the lies) , Socialize (socialize)
do you realize that it never ends
that it never ends

Everyday I see these same four walls that keep me here
and I wanna change the things that hurt
and I wanna end this constant fear
so I say
I don’t wanna feel this pain