| Welcome to the world of a kid named | |
| MikeyWho had only one reason to be hated be whitey | |
| Raised on a farm outside of | |
| South Bend | |
| Where they hated on him cause he was | |
| African American | |
| But three years later, | |
| Mikey was the town pride | |
| Basketball | |
| Mikey went and got himself a bull ride | |
| Earned his acceptance on the hardwood floor | |
| And that's something white | |
| America would never ignore | |
| Stop, hey, what's that sound | |
| Everybody look what's goin' down | |
| Stop, hey, what's that sound | |
| Everybody look what's goin' down | |
| What's goin' down tell me what's goin' down | |
| You wanna know just what's goin' down | |
| What's goin' down | |
| I'll tell ya what's goin' down | |
| You wanna know just what's goin' down | |
| Take a look around | |
| Everything is comin' down | |
| Do you hear the subtle sounds | |
| Of our morality slippin' | |
| People on the go | |
| We'll be reapin' what we sow | |
| Yeah we say we want to know | |
| But I got my suspicions | |
| Welcome to the world of a girl named | |
| SusieSusie's only crime was that she was born a cutie | |
| Physically abused by her uncle and his friends | |
| Alcohol let 'em all leave the house with grins | |
| But Susie couldn't shake off the memories | |
| Forced to find her own kind of remedy | |
| A man-eater for the rest of her days | |
| Three kids, three men, no daddies by eleventh grade[CHORUS] | |
| What be goin' diggy down | |
| When you find what you lost | |
| But you lose what you found |