Album: Let's Face It (1997)
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  • Royal Oil, come on bubble and boil
    Stabs like a dagger, make you stagger
    On the hot tin foil
    Mind your mind or it will surely spoil then you sleep down in the soil
    Nothing comes from nothing, come on
    Royal Oil
    When you smoke or poke the poison
    You lose the chance to be tomorrow
    Look out on the horizon
    And see the sadness, the pain and the sorrow
    I can't say enough about the stuff
    Or what it has in store
    When you smoke or poke the poison
    You won't be anymore
    Royal Oil, come on bubble and boil
    Stabs like a dagger, make you stagger
    On the hot in foil
    Mind your mind or it will surely spoil
    Then you sleep down in the soil
    Nothing comes from nothing, come on
    Royal Oil
    Royal Oil has cut many down to size
    Spikes gonna strike the weak and strong alike
    And then forever, and ever close those eyes
    Make up your mind to keep your mind up
    And to your life be loyal
    Nothing comes from nothing, come on
    Royal Oil
    Royal Oil, big trouble brewing
    Long, lonely road, long road to ruin
    Wrong path to take, great big mistake
    And then you sleep down in the soil
    Nothing comes from nothing, come on
    Royal Oil
    Writer/s: DICKY BARRETT, NATE ALBERT
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Bob from Miami, FlIt was really really impressive i learnt a lot from this song
  • Jason from Middletown, NySpecifically, it's about (black tar) heroin, hence the reference to oil.
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