So cool, coming home from school, hearing Ruby hard at work and sitting on the stoop

she'd sing and her voice would reach out and capture your heart, yeah, Ruby, Ruby, are

you lonely every night, does your heart ache for laughter, tell me, Ruby, are you hurting

deep inside, this is how she would reply, love you too much, she'd say, I was never

one to doubt, but nothing ever quite worked out, I'm so short of all my hopes and dreams,

cause nothing no one wants is free, oh, but that's me, so sad, we had it so bad, young

Ruby, she ran away from problems, never would she try to solve them, she'd yell and her

voice would tell on her soul for the prize, Ruby, Ruby, are you wasting precious time,

chasing men with their gatorade schemes, tell me, Ruby, will you ever compromise, this is

what she said to me, people live the way they choose, and I showed you what not to do, I

know what you want becomes of me, when nothing no one wants is free, oh, but that's me, oh

no, I'm so short of all my hopes and dreams, cause nothing in this life for free, no, no,

no, no, ain't nothing you got to sacrifice for what you want in life, you can appreciate

working for what you make, no, Ruby D, ain't nothing, you don't get nothing without paying

something, when everything you mistake life is a care about inside, oh, Ruby D, whoa,

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

tell me, Ruby, are you lonesome every night, do you hurt it for laughter, tell me, Ruby, are you

hurting deep inside, this is how she replied, she said I was never one to doubt, she said

nothing ever quite worked out, I'm so short of all my hopes and dreams, cause nothing no one wants is free, no, no,

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

People live the way that you I don't know what to say I don't know what to do I don't know what to do

Ruby Green, I sold out I sold out

Tell me, Ruba, will you ever compromise?