I turn my head from all this hate
That the world seems to have made fate
For me to endure
Never knowing what’s in store
As for my tomorrow
All I know is it will be sorrow
If I turn on the news
I know I’ll get the blues
And I’m sure that when I drive to a friend’s
There’s a shooting round the bend
Seems like I should just stay in my house
But then I’m going to hear my neighbor beating his spouse
Nowhere can I escape
From this assault, possession and rape
Cause when you’re from the same streets as me
It’s like all you can see
Is this everlasting pain
That deteriorates my brain
All that pain has become a cloud
It has created a shroud
Over my dissolution of right and wrong
But on my streets that makes you strong
As a person this cloud makes me weaker,
It makes my soul bleaker
With every gunshot
Every time I sell pot
Even when I sing my song
I can only long
For times long, long ago
Back when consciousness would flow
Down these red, red veins
From when mercy seemed immovable in my brain
Now even in my dreams
I see gats gleam
I see people dead
My glock pressed to some black man’s head
And this dream makes me want what I know isn’t right
It makes me choose the darkness over the light
Now I’m selling weed and committing other crimes
It seems like my life has no reason or rhyme
I find myself lost
Finally realizing the cost
That these crimes have taken upon me
I realize that I am not free
I see that I have left behind
My once glorious righteous mind
A great man once said
If you emancipate your head
You will be free
That to me
Sounds like the way to be
So I’m going to strive
To survive
This inevitably hard, hard life
And I’m going to search within this strife
For my own liberation
From this desperate situation
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