Philip bailey, allee willis & a.z. giles Het gets wild at night Gotta sleep all day 'cause he's wound so tight Blowing his brains away He's in the land of the free And he wants to be Someone they all say will make good But what's reality when you're from the hood It's evil yea, yea, yea (chorus) Evil, evil roy, who is fooling who Don't you know evil evil someone Watching you Well he got no job so he peddling-fear Trying to push so hard No way out of here It's just the law of the street Too much heat Pressure cooking, gonna explode But where you gonna be If you lose control It's evil yea yea yea (chorus) (bridge) Can't you see that your way Is going nowhere fast And your time is just running out Fighting fire with fire It will never pa** If evil's what your life's about (out chrus) When you take never giving Hide the pain You stop living