things'll never change

ah yeah.it's real. gonna put it down. all these little crime thangs

homeless

the world is crazy bwoy

it's like this

it's the way it is

heavy out there. it's heavy. was i really such a bad child that i deserved to get hit with boards

and whooped with extension cords?

did you forget that i was your creation

and all i wanted from you all was love

hope

and motivation?

son

you're disrespectful and you're talking back

get out my face

kicked me out the house

and wouldn't even let me plead my case. now i'm homeless and i'm freezing like the morgue

the only thing keepin me alive is the lord

needless to say it's times like this i'd rather be locked up then

drinkin water out my hands and eatin out of garbage cans

can i come back home

huh could i?

son

you're on your own

why should i?

things'll never change

that's just the way it is

nobody's even concerned

some things'll never change

that's just the way it is

when will we ever learn?

huh. three years from now

i think i'm gon be straight

i put my name on the list for section 8

tried out for the army but i was flat footed

didn't do no harm to me

cuz i was used to it

if i apply for some work

let's make a bet

i'll get the nine

cuz i don't know about the internet

what do you think we need to do to change about this nation?

need to provide more jobs and better education

nuclear weapons should be stopping crimes

already got enough to blow the world up

a thousand times

the birds and the bees

deadly disease

teenage pregnancies

std's

a-wuh a wait a minute

i hear sirens

oh that's the couple down the street

domestic violence

either them or the little girl in 306

she's always telling everyone that she gon slice her wrists

i guess that's the way it is in the life of sin

where you'll prolly end up dead

or in the pen

but my family ain't no better than the next

my auntie brenda turned her own sister in

for writing bad checks

and save folks try to hit you where it hurts

knowin they the biggest hypocrites in the church

we need to give our minds a bath and

do some scrubbin'

stop the hate and start the lovin'

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