Things seem so unfair the way the cards fall
Don’t have a yard much less the whole nine yards with every black that gets the dough to start moving up you see the whites packing up to move away from us
And now the suburbs are the ghettos and the inner cities is renovated with lofts and looking nice and pretty
Because our ghettos really all inside our minds yo
If we can sort it out its crazy what we’ll find yo rewind yo
There’s no way I’m gonna Give up right now
We gotta push thru some way & some how
I wanna live for good in every way
And start a new slate with every day
I ask God for the meaning of life
Out in the streets It’s like were rollin’ the dice
It seems our heroes are dying away
And so it’s time it’s time!
I’ve been around for minute now
I Seen you go I see you come and see you hanging out
People living to die until they it the pavement
The Bigger they head the less need for steady aiming
We see the hood and the need for some major changing
We see the church and the need for some rearranging
On every corner there’s one but still cant see the sun
If he was walking amongst us would he walk in one the dumpsters is where he hung and drunkards is who he won
Daughters and sons being raised by TV and they streets ain’t sesame they young kids are wrestling with who they are it’s our duty to address there things I’m not trying to diss but we all got to deal this
Radio play this realness things is killing us you feeling us?
There’s no way I’m gonna Give up right now
We gotta push thru some way & some how
I wanna live for good in every way
And start a new slate with every day
I ask God for the meaning of life
Out in the streets It’s like were rollin’ the dice
It seems our heroes are dying away
And so it’s time it’s time!
Thugs writing love letters up in Detention homes
To the girl dat at the time they only used to bone.
But now they see her in a different light a different way
Cuz steel bars tend to turn your mind to different things
Decisions are like bills that we all have to pay
Can speak loud on credit but debts a breath away!
Cuz when your rep is like confetti it’s messy
Next day dey repossessing yo nest eggs