Addicted Youth

I was addicted in my youth
 I was addicted to you
 I was addicted too
 I was addicted in my youth
 I was addicted to you
 I was addicted too
 (I was a fiend)
 You know some people never make it out
 And some people never make it round
 I fell into the bottom tried to make it out
 I barely made a sound
 I had to change my life so I could change my ways
 I had to make a life so I could make a change
 Someone told me once that I was all to blame
 I still hand it to em, but I never changed
 I just left the party and them fifty bags
 A bottle of old crow and bargain rags
 Took five or six years til I was walking steady
 But in the corners of my mind I'd still find confetti
 But that's the difference in the facts of life
 And what you ask the knife
 I got an answer that I didn't like
 I had a question didn't ask it right
 So I asked the night
 Some people always sell us out
 Some people always let us down
 And I could never set it down
 And I'm unsettled now
 Don't let it take you out
 Cuz If a part of me's a part of you
 And there's a part of me that's beautiful
 Does that make you beautiful too?
 I think you think it do
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 You know I used to play the blame game
 But this ain't no boo thang no same same
 I was a dust head no foul play
 Moving that white girl for spare change
 I tried to go and change what I never had
 Tried to make change outta pen and pad
 Tried to maintain, fill the laundry bags and the grocery bags
 Be less afraid of silence and the violent drag
 Cuz life just has a way of taking prisoners
 And too many locked inside the physical
 So many locked we've become cynical
 And too many cops are simply criminals
 And that's a metaphor but its a true story
 And the problem with our thinking in this room forming
 When the the first thing we thinks, "what can you do for me?"
 But there's a part of me that's a part of you
 And there's a part of you that's beautiful
 Does that make me beautiful too?
 I think it do
 I was addicted in my youth
 I was addicted to you
 I was addicted too
 I was addicted in my youth
 I was addicted too (uh)
 (I was a fiend)
 (Before I became a teen)
 (I was a fiend)
 (Before I became a teen)