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True Story


Two things I can't deal with 
A broken heart and a new addiction 
The man I loved abused my trust 
And at the moment I got zannies in my system 
I'm just a young female trying to make it  
In a world where if we don't got it we're going to take it  
The world's colder than a man who got wrongfully convicted 
With a wife raising three bad kids who in a week will all get evicted 
I'm not oblivious to what's coming to me  
See when I was young violence and theft was funny to me 
It was a game and I was on my last life 
Thankfully God picked me up before things got trife 
He put me in a cell where I had to face my own self 
I've been beat up before but this pain felt like hell 
Have you ever seen a stranger in the mirror 
Looking back at you, the equivalent of a demon figure 
I had nightmares of worse things than one can imagine 
But I never woke up because those events really happened 
See my struggle was a gift given from God himself 
Because now I'm a walking testimony teaching others it's okay to love thyself 
I could of denied God's love and remained on my path  
But I chose to unbuckle my chains and wash my sins in the bath 
As the water drains I smile at the sky  
Because of the man above I made it out alive..
 
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