Seems like your heart stops working
The minute they close the curtain
And take off your mask
And take off your costume
And if anyone asks you're
Taking a small break
Drinking some coffee
Everyone knows what you're doing
Seems like the bus moves slower
Just cause you got somewhere to go
So you take a few pills in Beverly Hills
But if anyone asks you've got a prescription
You got an addiction
Who do you think that you're fooling?

John Doe, I just want the John I know
Once you put the drinks on hold
Maybe you could come back home
John Doe
Ooh oh oh ohooh ooh
Ooh oh oh ohooh ooh

[B. o. B:]

Errybody's addicted to something
Errybody got a grip onto something
Even if it's just the feel too responsible
To be maybe once, maybe twice
Maybe hundreds of times, hundreds of times
But that it's just harder to function at times
You wasted at the bottom of every single bottle
As if it was someone or something to find
You're struggling in your mind
And you tell yourself lie after lie
And you get to the point where there's no lower?
That people that you work with noticed the sings
And you walk in the room
And you notice it's been quiet
So you break up the silence
You say you've been at the gym
But the way look ain't blame on the diet
So what you hiding?

John Doe, I just want the John I know
Once you put the drinks on hold
Maybe you could come back home
John Doe
Ooh oh oh ohooh ooh
Ooh oh oh ohooh ooh

[B. o. B:]

Yeah, I've probably had too many things
Mashed too many freaks
Had too much to drop me
Had too much to drink
Left the club, ended up in custody
When the drug test passed it luckily
My girlfriend? 'cause she woke me up suddenly
With a woman up on me
I told her wait! it ain't what it look like
I must've slip and fell, clumsy me!
Well, at least I admit it, 'cause the worst you could do
Is to do it and not to be mad enough to say that you did it
That's just how you prevent it, well I ain't no different
I love all the money, the fame
And the parties with beautiful women!
I spend so much time as an underground artist
'Cause I was afraid to succumb to the business
That I've become?
But that what you'd judge I become?
With the greatest resistance
That's how the tables can turn when they?
And change the perspective and rip your entire position
My whole life I've been dying to wish and to live the experience
That everything's possible
When I told 'em my dreams they just said they were logical
Now, I can see it - it's optical (optical)

Ooh oh oh ohooh ooh
Ooh oh oh ohooh ooh
John Doe, I just want the John I know
Once you put the drinks on hold
Maybe you could come back home
John Doe!

J