[00:04.73]God's woman what's going on
[00:09.92]I know things seem messed up sometime
[00:13.23]You stressed out and you can't handle the situation
[00:18.42]Sometime it feels like you lacking the guidance
[00:20.61]And you don't know what to do but stay strong
[00:24.79]And keep in mind that he always loves you
[00:26.98]It's what it is that's right sugar love
[00:29.17]Come on
[00:29.67]Josephine the times are getting tough
[00:31.17]Seems to me you just wont get enough
[00:38.48]The rain  wont wash away  your sins
[00:43.42]You'll be here  to do them all over again
[00:47.92]Yo  I know this chick from the hood named Courtney Cox
[00:50.86]And her brain is easy to pick like faulty locks
[00:53.55]She's awfully hot  asshole burning like tobasco
[00:54.92]She used to be thick  it's like where the hell her ass go
[00:58.55]Started smoking weed and graduated to the pipe
[01:01.04]Thought that she could quit but her calculations wasn't right
[01:04.49]Infactuated with the life of dope fiends and crack pushers
[01:06.29]Prostituting for old pimps who mack hookers
[01:08.92]Putting dope in the cook searching for her vein
[01:11.40]Tracks all over her arms she never felt the pain
[01:13.78]The monkey on her back is now a gorilla
[01:15.72]Fiending for a hit knowing one day it's gon' kill her
[01:18.52]The clinic didn't help (nope) she just another young black woman
[01:21.28]Destroying her pretty image and her health
[01:23.03]Got me thinking to myself damn how could this happen
[01:25.78]I seen her on the corner nodding off  sniffin' and scratching
[01:28.65]Josephine  the times are getting tough
[01:33.34]Seems to me you just wont get enough
[01:38.46]The rain  wont wash away your sins
[01:43.40]You'll be here to do them all over again
[01:46.65]She wakes up with an urge to get high
[01:50.71]Everyday the same routine needing the mood of fix to get by
[01:53.53]So she reaches for her purse grab the bag and the needle
[01:56.09]Tie a sock her arm and start shooting up the diesel
[01:58.53]Had a flesh back screwing some dude up in his hashback
[02:01.15]The night before body still sore  holding her ass crack
[02:03.53]A regular John she met her through Tom
[02:05.96]She passed out with the syringe still stuck in her arm
[02:08.47]Dying a slow death oh she losing her dear mind
[02:11.09]From the troubles of the world  feeling cursed by mankind
[02:13.53]Uh  caught up in a desperate rage  was blessed with AIDS
[02:16.15]Lost her appetite hardly slept in days
[02:17.96]Now it's too late praying to Jesus  she f**ked around
[02:20.65]With the wrong penis contaminated with diseases
[02:23.28]Two months pregnant carrying around her fetus
[02:26.03]But they found her on Broad  in the dumpster  behind the cleaners
[02:28.84]Josephine the times are getting tough
[02:33.03]Seems to me you just wont get enough
[02:38.59]The rain  wont wash away  your sins
[02:43.28]You'll be here  to do them all over again
[02:48.66]Josephine  what's wrong  baby
[02:50.09]Come on
[02:50.90]Yo  what your momma gonna think of you girl
[02:52.71]Her little baby's all doped up  strung out on the world
[02:54.72]Try'na make some quick cash for a hit of that stash
[02:56.90]Listen  baby  you growing up much too fast
[02:58.78]Uh  this goes out to every project and every ghetto
[03:01.65]For those getting high  using drugs on every level
[03:04.03]Living your life  day and night  getting stoned
[03:06.03]You better leave those drugs alone  feel me
[03:09.21]Up all night  under the party lights
[03:14.84]Same old popping and party hopping
[03:19.84]All of your so called friends are leading you down the wrong road
[03:24.91]Leading you back to crack it's a known fact
[03:29.90]It is time that you need me I'll be there  to help ya
[03:39.97]I'll be your leaning pole when you're falling down
[03:44.96]I'll be there when you falling down (sooner or later)