Deadbeat father, making Mom eat ranch sandwiches
Living in the open, bleeding wounds that aren't healed by bandages
Green paper isn't changing this
My mom selling my sister so my brother lives
Got some disease that sounds weird and ends with -is
I'm no doctor but Mom's love wasn't healing it
This world taking from us, yet this world never gives
If I wanted them to live I had to fight for it, dry my eyes for it
Never crack up only sell it, like God's hell it is, rather be there than this
Never read his book but it never felt like I shoulld
What are words on a paper useful for in a blood bound hood
People dying like flies, that word "Die", remember it more than I remember seeing my mom smile
No sirens, the violence, never ended it well, what I saw too bloody for my words to tell
I said once and I'll say it twice this world's worse than hell, and it isn't hard to tell
Heard blood on the cracked concrete falling like rain on a street
Kept my mouth shut didn't even let my heart beat
Brothers shooting each other fighting for money they stole from their mothers
They'd never bother, I don't know if they wanted it to end
But from what I saw, the kids claw for survival, you either die good
or you have to represent your hood, have more bullets fly
than tears running down your eyes, never learned to read
that stuff was obsolete, didn't even know what obsolete was
Till I heard some guys rapping by my street, saw that word written on a bus
Younger brother dead but it wasn't no disease,
He was sitting down laughing in front of the TV screen, the glass shattered
And all I hear is my mother's scream, a car's wheels burning on the dark concrete
Looked at my sister but it wasn't her that bleed, my brothers head had a hole in it
And his eye turned bloody red or it could've been Mom, don':t remember anymore and
never wanted to either, but every night since then I never dreamed, but now I remember
His eyes were as dark as kerosene but it was covered by his blood stream flowing
Since that day my mother never stopped crying she just kept going