Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

Released: July 29, 1997

Songwriter: Krayzie Bone DJ U-Neek

Producer: DJ U-Neek

[Krayzie Bone]
It's all real...

Im just tryin to protect myself
You know what im sayin
For the wars to come
Straight warrior
What cho gonna do when they come for you
Yall feel me

Times, hard times
Lord my hard times
You know it got me feelin bent up n stuff
Smokin and drinkin too much
And yeah, it slowly erase my sunshine
Times, hard times
Lord my hard times
You know it got me feelin bent up n stuff
Smokin and drinkin too much
And yeah, it slowly erase my sunshine

Can't he see that we
Are in need to be free(free)
Can't he see that we
Are in need to be free(free)
Can't he see that we
Are in need to be free(free)
Can't he see that we
Are in need to be free(free)

And yes we would be blessed
If we could rest in heaven (heaven, heaven, heaven)
And wouldn't you be blessed
If you could rest in heaven (heaven, heaven, heaven)

Now I can vouch with God as my witness
That this wickedness will not remain
Youve got to make up your mind
You wanna be saved?
Make up your mind
Or do you wanna die?
You wanna die
Oh yes were thugs were more than thugs
Got soldiers wastelands warriors
We're on a mission for God
So bartenda, bartenda, bartenda
So much hurt and pain
Bloody murders man
So much hurt and pain
Bloody murders man

It makes me erase my sunshine
It makes me erase my sunshine
It makes me erase my sunshine
It makes me erase my sunshine

If I pray for you
(you) pray for me
If I pray for you
(you) pray for me

It makes me erase my sunshine
It makes me erase my sunshine
It makes me erase my sunshine
It makes me erase my sunshine

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony is a hip-hop group from Cleveland, Ohio, formed in 1991 under the brief name, “Band Aid Boys.” Then they were B.O.N.E. Enterpri$e, consisting of Bizzy Bone, Krayzie Bone, Layzie Bone, and Wish Bone. Under this name, they released the 1993 album, Faces of Death. Then Flesh-N-Bone, Layzie’s brother, joined the group, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony was solidified.

Rapper Eazy-E of the group N.W.A signed Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to Ruthless Records in 1994. The group’s debut EP Creepin On Ah Come Up included two hits, “Thuggish Ruggish Bone” (#22) and “Foe Tha Love of $” (#41). In 1995, their full-length album E. 1999 Eternal followed featuring another top 40 hit “1st of Tha Month”. An updated version of “Crossroad” from the album, renamed as “Tha Crossroads”, became a Grammy-winning international smash hit, holding the #1 spot in the US for eight weeks and reaching the top 20 in eight countries overseas including the UK.

Over the next fifteen years, the group scored six more top 40 hits including the platinum-selling “I Tried” (featuring Akon), but it was a tumultuous time. Flesh-N-Bone served eight years in prison for assault. The group kicked Bizzy Bone out after a couple of years of issues, but took him back five years later. Krayzie Bone also quit for a few months. In 2010, Wish Bone told

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