Put on yout hat and coat and take
   A walk down the street
   I think you're bound to be surprised
   By all the bodies you meet
   The bowels of the melting pot
   Wreeks of shit
   While a guy does your windows
   With a sponge and his spit
   The whores on the highway try to forget
   That they jeopardized the lives of the guys they met
   Some will shoot you up and stuff
   You down a drain pipe hole
   Cause they wouldn't touch your body
   With a ten foot pole
  
   Stick em up, stick em up, empty the drawer
   Said the banger to the owner of the liquor store
   I was purchasing some wine
   When I heard the pops and a patron started screaming
   "Someone call the cops"
   The cops were called, and we were told to wait
   But the death toll rose because the cops were late
   The banger ran out,and he was gone in a flash
   He got away with the murder,
   And out with the cash
  
   The truth hurts, the truth hurts,
   And fairy tales are written like a book
   The truth hurts, the truth hurts
   Just open your eyes and take a look, son
  
   Let's take a little trip to the lower side
   There's a junkie in a place where the freaks reside
   He shoots the shit, and gets the rent paid free
   With government checks and lots ofAZT
   He sees his kids about once a week
   And his wife's on her death bed as we speak
   She prays for little ones everyday
   But the boy is infected and the girl's O.K.
   Jackin' in the city while the city sleeps
   You play lor fun and they play for keeps
   There's a thief in the hood just waitin to pop
   And a kid in a Cadillac tryin to cop
   Herb and couple vials of coke
   And he don't sweat it out cause the fine's a joke
   In a matter of time it was a real done deal
   It's back to the burbs because the shit ain't real
  
   But the truth hurts, the truth hurts,
   And fairy tales are written like a book
   The truth hurts, the truth hurts,
   just open your eyes and take a look, son