I'm scared and I'm anxious
They don't care just wan' tank us
Taking pleas that's the "thank you"s
We get from thieves and these cantankerous
Lawyers who are liars in disguises try provide us
With advice but it's a wire it'll trap and 'lectrify ya
Have you looking out from a cage
Even if you booking albums onstage
It's that time of year when mentally I'm starting to slip
Forget heart on sleeve I be wearing my heart on my lips
It hurts my chest to bite my tongue
Struggle to rest though having fun
Takes my mind off my mind
Like the best dose o' Valium
At the edge watch it incline
Say I been fine
Scratch that- man I been trying
Least nine or ten times
But it's never enough life always tough
Friends broke my trust that hurt- still does
My hands are rough covered in cuts
My head stays up but mind is cuffed
The kindest mothers find their sons
Suffering injustice- binding love
To bring out boys that hid in thugs
Ain't read their rights know this is wrong
Set my sights past where I'm from
Spent my nights writing my songs
Twisted lines around my throat
I'm sick of strife my tale of woe
I saw that knife it burnt my hope
Missing my vice I'll learn to cope
Blinking my eyes the blur evokes
A link the wise and unheard show
Singing my life through words I wrote-
I always dreamed about it
Rhythm and melody telling me- I can't breathe without it
Don't know what to do without it
With it I can move the mountain
Overcome the pain that got me calling out like wolves when howling
Said they trusted knew they doubted
Blood runs hot can't cool the fountain
Reminds me of emotions I suppressed those were the pools I drowned in
Greed in their eyes brighter when the judgement of crew is clouded
Take another life the living don't know what to do about it
Blues're seeing red instead of Black said I looked like their perp/purp'-
Abused force in excess I'm blessed except when I step in their world
Teardrops fill my eyes but they ain't slip like cars on wet roads
Scared to be naked like a nudist I never get clothes/close- enough to open up
Try to talk I'm choking up
My boy said it's water under the bridge- still can't get over her
Fall out but still in the blast zone of supernova love
Saw feds pull her man out her yard- what that explosion was
Black-on-Black violence, back-to-back sirens
No solutions to this equation- ain't a mathematics problem
Black-on-Black violence, back-to-back sirens
No solutions to this equation- ain't a mathematics problem
