If you wanna make the move 
then you better come in 
it's just the ability to reason 
that wears so thin 
living and dying and the stories that are true  
secrets to a good life is knowing when you're through 
 
black coat, white shoes, blackhat, cadillac 
the boy's a time bomb 
 
he's back in the hole where they got him living 
like a rat but he's smarter than that nine lives 
like a cat take him to the youth authority home 
first thing you learn is that you got to make it 
in this world alone  
 
now he's gotten out he's gotten free he's gotta go 
gotta car 21 years old he's runnin' from the 
bar his pager's beepin' he's got in deep in 
whatever he can move on in you know that kid's a creepin'  
 
in tears come from the razor that's been tattooed below 
his eye his mother cries she knows that he is strong enough 
to die he's rollin' in the cadillac it's midnight sunroof is down 
three shots rung out the herd's deal 
the new king is crowned.