bowling for liberty

my days of youth were in the people's army

and i paid my dues under a legal mafia

the news could hardly cover yugoslavia

without looking down on us dudes surviving here

the warzone was a training ground

for the land of the free

never lay me down

but the land isn't free

better pay me now

'cause you don't wanna see me when i throw my weight around

i never wait around

or set a date and count

no hype like when the game announced

then when i came around the would be saying aloud

that i didn't belong

that i was lame

get out

but i've always done what i ain't allowed

you think a crowd of haters would dissuade me now?

you've only made me welcome to change the outcome

i take an ounce and then upgrade to pounds

uh

foreign places

feel faceless

starting over

leave no traces

i've seen things you couldn't imagine

death of innocent women and children

family will be there for each other

it gave me a new beginning

all was against me but i'm set free

new home

liberty city

came to a strange land

alien with a game plan

to become a self-made made man

power is ambidextrous

it'll change hands

time is money and every dollar is a grain of sand

slipping into my wallet

how do i plead?

it's simple your honor

i'm innocent of everything but pimping your momma

depart from the dock and i start from the bottom

like slaves that were traded and stopped picking cotton

raise up and raze the construction that's stopping them

burn

nat turner and spartacus

chopping up

and while you're sat in the park

chatting

i'm carjacking ambulances

having a laugh

when i'm crashing them

no you can't have it back

i'm lacking the heart

packing an actual arsenal in back of my fire truck

and i partook in every felony that you could write up

i push crime numbers in the city right up

the boldest agent couldn't solve the case

until they're old and grey

by then i've rolled away

i'm in a stolen sabre

feds are all in chase

but let me just drop by for a bowling date

yay!

take a hike down memory lane

i got a strike looking like i'm ahead of the game

uh

foreign places

feel faceless

starting over

leave no traces

i've seen things you couldn't imagine

death of innocent women and children

family will be there for each other

it gave me a new beginning

all was against me but i'm set free

new home

liberty city

startred alone in the dark with a hope

swimming with the loan sharks in the open

i keep afloat

heart open to omens that i'll see

a sign any moment

my cousin roman

bellic and me

we'll make a hell of a team

together we'll leap to the american dream

but as i climb the wall with a goal: ascend higher

decline and fall

of the roman empire

living in broker broke

amid the roaches

roman roads are nowhere

close to as robust

as i'd hoped for

so i carve my own path

pull up the weeds in the garden

mown grass

remodel the landscape in my image

the minute hand's ticking till the time i finish

rome wasn't built overnight

in five minutes

but have a look what i've done with the place

nice

innit?

never turn your back

i might stick a knife in it

this is the kind of life advice i'm giving

'cause this is the kind of life that i'm living

never let it inhibit my drive or my mission

never set a limit

still i get it did and done

inside the time given

i ice you dry like nitrogen

i hide in plain sight defy your night vision

avant-garde

make caviar rise from fried chicken

foreign places

feel faceless

starting over

leave no traces

i've seen things you couldn't imagine

death of innocent women and children

family will be there for each other

it gave me a new beginning

all was against me but i'm set free

new home

liberty city