i wish i could be you i wish that i could be you for a moment or two and you could be me if you wanted to see what it s like in my shoes chillin on a corner cause i gotta kill an hour i see a pretty sister over purchasing some flowers she walks into the grocery so i take a step and follow she gives me funny feelings in my throat and so i swallow afraid to approach her i stand goofy in the aisle shopkeeper staring but he don t give me no smile he says customers only boy leave if you ain t buying i turn around to him and i say outside a night club got no invitation a limousine pulls up you know it s causing mad commotion so i move a little closer maybe see a superstar just to catch a glimpse of who s coming out the car a man steps out you know he s dressed up like mac the knife he had a taste of the plastic things in life mad clothes fine women spent the rest on getting high laughed at other folks along the way just getting by i eased up through the crowd so that i could see his face his two security goons come knock me on my ace i say yo man you ain t gotta do that i ain t trying to rock your world and at that same moment i see that pretty girl the one from the grocery i saw buying flowers steps out the limo and her face looks kind of sour plastic man grabs her arm and walks away i sit up look at him and say that girl looks so damn fine i thought i d never get her off my mind so i walk around to the back alley try to sneak into the party i zoom in like binoculars on something that did shock me that plastic man he had that girl up against the wall he was all up in her face his fist up in a ball i said yo man you better leave that nice young pretty girl alone and he smacked her one more time and said oh what you want some he took a swing at me i ducked hit him with an uppercut knocked him on his butt like he got struck by mac the truck he grabbed the sister s shoulders and he slammed her to the ground crack a deadly sound red blood soiled the ground sister wounded i took her in my arms i started praying that she would not be gone i heard sirens going off in my head i whispered in her ear and said  i wish i could be you for a moment or two and you could be me if you wanted to see just what i think of you