[Intro]

Lawd

Knowledge, above all nonsense nigga

Pay attention

Look

[Verse 1]

Don't step one foot up in the ride 'less you understand the vibe

That somebody 'bout to motherfucking die from a side

Where the colors collide

They got a look up in their eye

Like a thirst for another homicide

To decide, never get you for the drive

Anywhere that you would hide

Is easy for the bullet to come and find

Never mind what that means to define, what do you really [?]

But I seen you been complacent with a lie

Nigga tryna be the one without the substance abusing

[?] with a regular influence

The problem is that life is so motherfucking confusing

The path that he walks nobody would ever choose it

Diffusing the situation, but the manifest too evasive

A scar for the heart but it's hard to erase it

The pain that remains and a drug to replace

With the same sad look up on his face

Nigga woke up in the morning with a different type'a goal

Turned cold from the fact that his father was never 'round

Picking up a semi auto, bouta lay the victim down

Blood drips from the body to the cracks of the ground

Then they mash on the gas, but they pass 5-O in they cut

Red lights everybody like fuck, just hush

3 niggas, 2 guns, 1 blunt

Put that motherfucking pistol up under the damn seat

Don't move and the cop'll approach

With a boisterous boast "So I caught you doing 50 when the limit 35, please turn the engine off and everybody out the ride"

So he sits up on the curb outside

What they found was a stereotype

It wasn't even surprising that he had enough evidence to put 'em up in a cell

Another young black male with some difficult problems

But a penitentiary will help solve them

Lawd

Somebody told me that this life is but a dream

I reside in agony where happiness is never seen

Ask me why I'm so depressed and I confess my future's bleak

With all these voices in my head and I can't motherfucking think

Damn

[Verse 2]

Meanwhile there's a child laying dead from a gash

That was riddled with bullets that tore his body up in half

Do the math, he was only like six

Caught five from a clip

Thats a mac-11 auto tip straight to the hip

When it ripped through the flesh and then punctured the spine

But it left through the chest and the barrel was suppressed

Now the concrete's a motherfucking mess

Bet the nigga standing next to the body is feeling blessed

Man that bullet wasn't meant for an innocent bystander

Delusions of grandeur, to think that the violence has a name

But it does, its the one's that they claim

From the boy that was slain to the young man sitting in a cell

But the nigga that was running away from the bullets and covering hide hops up and finally realized, witnessing the death of his one child

Through the midst of the madness

The man sits down to reflect on society

He was tired of living trife

Took a singular second to try and get his mind right

Mustn't trip but the force of the moment changed his whole life

And he knows that he'll never be the same

This blood will drive him insane

He was thinking 'bout the pain that it caused

The emotional loss

But in all actuality

It probably was the cause of the cost

He was paying with a seed

I'm praying that everybody takes heed

Based this off an article I found, hidden in a publication

It's not a fabricated allegation

A gory allegory and the moral of the motherfucking story

Is try to be positive, not deceitful but alive

Nigga never pick the day when you die, try

Be a better person while you're still alive

And search for the divine that you never seem to find

Understand that happiness is the best state of mind

God damn

I been terrified of the way I'm living

Cut my wrists, I watch it drip

Hope I'm forgiven for my sinning

And I'm only 23 but I feel like my life is ending

I've been speaking with Jehovah and he told me that it's hopeless

Damn

[Outro]

My grandpa asked me one time if I care whether I live or die?

Yeah I do

And now it's too late