[ti:Can - O - Corn (LP Version)] [ar:Coolio] [al:It Takes A Thief] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Can - O - Corn (LP版) - Coolio [00:24.80]Back in the days when I was a young buck [00:26.86]Stuck like a truck gettin sh*t outta luck [00:30.56]Times was rough and I didnt have a plan [00:33.47]I was barely on the edge of my life as a man [00:36.51]Its really f**ked up when theres d**e in the crib [00:39.58]No food in the kitchen for the motherf**kin kids [00:42.66]Thats why a young ni**a learned how to steal see [00:45.86]Shopliftin laid me a whole lotta meals [00:48.63]But I remember days when the cupboard was bare and [00:52.23]Life was unfair but who the f**k cares [00:54.75]I still hear momma what she used to tell me [00:57.56]That you don't get sh*t in this life for free [01:00.36]And even if I never ever make it to the mountain top [01:04.22]F**k it I fight for my hip-hop [01:06.99]Not everybody can relate to what I been through [01:09.86]Even though some front and they try to pretend to [01:13.11]Know about the life of a kid and the strife [01:15.93]Where he has to live in the shadow of a base-pipe [01:18.96]Good goes to bad bad goes to worse [01:21.79]And pretty soon hes stealin from his own mommas purse [01:25.08]So clean out ya ears and open up your eyes [01:27.91]I reach out to touch but somebody moved the sky [01:30.95]My stomach is growlin word is born [01:33.95]Cos all I had for dinner was a can-o-corn [01:37.15]A can-o-corn a can-o-corn [01:40.27]All I had for dinner was a can-o-corn [01:43.06]A can-o-corn a can-o-corn [01:46.17]Before I went to school I had a can-o-corn [01:49.11]A can-o-corn a can-o-corn [01:52.17]I tried to get full off a can-o-corn [01:55.16]A can-o-corn a can-o-corn [01:57.92]Thats all the f**k that we had in the kitchen [02:01.30]A few years later i pledge a legions to the set [02:04.32]I'm growin up but I ain't grown yet [02:07.26]Its funny how the strain in a life filled with pain [02:10.46]Can sometimes leave a b**ch stained on the brain [02:13.37]I'm sittin in the restaurant guardin my food like a eagle [02:17.44]Pickin up scraps like a seagull [02:19.52]Waitin on the people at the next table to leave a tip [02:23.44]So I can put it in my pocket [02:25.49]Phoney easter bunny santa claus and the stork [02:28.57]We was poor as f**k so we ate a lot of pork [02:31.39]And it ain't no motherf**kin way no how [02:34.23]When it come up I let you bring me down [02:37.22]So I stick to the boots and I'm down with a maad group [02:40.54]Of gangstas and hoodlums but you can call em scroops [02:43.27]Give me liberty or give me death [02:46.36]Cos a man without pride ain't got sh*t left huh [02:49.83]And now that I'm older with kids of my own [02:52.46]I put me in the pot where it used to be a bone [02:55.70]Getcha self together word is born [02:58.53]Cos a man can't live on a can-o-corn