Cold World - Intellectual

[Intro: Tasha Catour]

Gunnin', gunnin', gunnin'

Everybody want something for their nothing

We live in a cold, cold world

These folks is killin' for less money than they can borrow

Create annual sorrow for families left feeling hollow

Then the son of a gun victim flushin' out his anger

Colorin' cartoons of strangers who getting strangled

And a daughter let a stranger, the school call him a counselor

Do some dirty things, but he promise that he will counsel her

Baby momma can't identify the man that killed him

It's the same low down dealer that she always get her pills from

And the son is gettin' older, streets is makin' him colder

But his momma's out cold, 'cause she ain't never quite sober

His sister fifteen, but you probably think that she grown up

'Cause she was with some men, acting way too grown up

And don't nobody care though, the schools ain't teaching

McDonald's selling poison, got people workin' for cheap and

The military, drugs, or prison the only way to eat, man

It's cold in the streets, let the track bring the heat in

We live in a cold, cold world

This world's cold like no clothes and snow blowin'

Like when the devil take the breath out of a baby's nose

And the people won't hear more metaphors and word-play

My sister's sick of strippin', she need hope up in my words, mayne

She pull up to the mall and she valet her lil' Mercedes

Wishin' she had some romance, healthy family, couple babies

And the gentleman she love, he already got a wife

So she's acceptin' her plight, she's the lady of the night

And she saw him in the park with his daughter, they holdin' hands

Arm around his woman's shoulder, he ain't give her not a glance

She accepts her sad reality, she doesn't stand a chance

One woman gets the man, the other woman gets the dance

It's a cold world, real cold world

Jermaine called that thing, man, where is we gon' turn?

A lot of people thinkin' I'm on an hopeless endeavor, nah

I know Someone who can change the weather forever, ever

We live in a cold, cold world