We’re living in an era of ignorance
We lost our innocence
At fourteen you’re too young to vote but old enough for death sentences
These politicians are hypocrites
For the atrocities that they commit we face imprisonment
During this pro American sentiment
How could we forget the scores of poor ignored?
While we finance a war
That bombs then rebuilds them
Feed their children
While the ones back home
Have to fend for their own
Life is wonderful and miserable depends on the time frame
The birth of my sister and the death of my Grandmother
I went bezerk and I was terribly hurt,
While she lay on the Earth shedding tears on the dirt
I cried to the sky please guide me father
At times this world is so dark I need night vision goggles
I lost friends to ignorance
Bullets and jail stints
Drug habits and various patterns of bullish
I've navigating through dangerous
Streets trying to claim us
Beast trying to tame us
Friends turned to strangers
I have ducked heat from flamers
By menacing strangers
Thinking I will survive like Gloria Gaylor
It’s a small world but I got big plans
But it gets hard like trying to jog through quicksand
But I found GOD on both knees with clutched hands
But kept getting invitations from the Devil to dance
So I went below the surface
Became more observant
Handshakes are fake they don’t mean a thing
A smile can be a predator preparing his fangs
I severed ties with friends whose minds were stagnated
Had king pin dreams but never quite made it
Friendships were torn
And habits were formed
And the ones who escaped crack
Heroin snatched
And I engaged in acts that were so ungodly
Only he can judge me punish me or pardon me
Watching this world makes me shed eye water
Our sons get slaughtered and denigrated ours daughters
It’s the sign of the times can’t you see that people
First it rained airplanes then the mail was lethal
Ghetto youths in disputes they spray A.K s
Suburban kids throw pipe bombs in school hallways
After so many years of feeding violence to youths
I guess those chickens came home to roost
