We live in a City
We live in a city
Where we have to be scared
Duck our heads low
Gun shots flying past our ear
Nothing comes easy
Everything is hard
Streets play the game
Until they pull ours cards
Tears coming down
Mothers face
Saying there child
Out of the city they couldn't taste
We live in a city
With no food on the table
Families falling apart
The tree becomes unstable
Wonder how can we make it out
A place like this
Instead of being at a funeral
Crying cause it's the person we miss
From daughters into mothers
At early teen years
Saying there ready
But their self they can't take care
Moms are like sisters
They learn rather then teaching
Saying yolo is the life
Child dying inside instead of dreaming
We live in a city
Where time is shorter than life
Walking just to the store
The day turns into night
Death is in the future
Of the young black man
Maybe it's just his life
They can never understand
Districts poor
So how to get money
We got these different incomes
But not to the city which makes it pretty funny
Ha
Can you look for something other then negatively
Seeing we are more the news
Changes people life into cruelty
Saying we dangerous
Never having a bit of positively
Shall I be the one
That starts the change
Or let the man blindly take our city
Is that strange
Can we stop the ignorance and
Quit these stupid games
Make the youth bright
Changing the guns into having fame
We live in that city
When there's a person shot
It takes cops hours
To go down the block to that exact spot
Is it right that we sit back and do nothing
Afraid of the fact we change it into something
I'm tired being the one
Where I have to see my people suffer
Knowing that I have the power
To make their life go farther
Then that old sheets in the back of a dumpster
We live in that city
That can change any minute
But we got those people scared
Until pushed to the limit
Fighting back
What we need to though
Letting the media and the world know
That we are more then what you see on these shows
Not all bad is in this feeling
Of the life that we live In this city
We live in a City
By: Futuristic Thoughts