[Makeba Mooncycle]

Just an average day in the neighborhood, some bad, some good

The race to see who live another day

Who went get locked up or sprayed, laid in the grave

Now since it's my neighborhood, I'mma call him Jay

Used to bounce around like a bad boy who play

Known as the totting weed smoking, black Jesus don't provoke him

Rest out in the Desert, sometimes hit Medina

Death was on his trail, though you should of seen her

Underneath the covers, they became lovers

Momma saw dreams of a tomb

So shе looked around his room, the truth was uncoverеd

Frustration of a mother; Where'd you get that piece?

You making me scared, stay home tonight

I don't want you out there, but life was a party

Never thought of what he did, or reminisce

On the life that he lived, you better watch your back

Now here comes karma, cuz from here on

Your life's full of drama

[Chorus: Makeba Mooncycle]

Can you hear a cry?

Seeing her son die

Nobody know's why

Tell me, can you hear a cry?

[Makeba Mooncycle]

In that same neighborhood, living down the street

Lived a young couple, baby made complete

Poverty to paradise, paradise to poverty

Stick it out together, stand right beside me

No one should test him, quick to get upset and then dead him

Trying to make things better for his girl and his seed

Let's make this cheddar, you follow, I lead

Now things get too hectic, put your boot to the ground

And treck it, but kid jumped out, from having second doubts

Your man is assed out, when the shots rang out

She took a look at her son

But no, not another one, back at the scene again

Cops called a hooligan, must of been a rub

He's just another thug, mark it, case closed

Casket under rose, didn't believe it was true

When the boy broke the news, felt like a dream

Dead on the scene, I won't forget the past

Cuz my son is the aftermath

[Chorus II: Makeba Mooncycle]

She said momma don't know why

Your daddy had to die

Nobody know's why

But baby's gonna be alright

[Makeba Mooncycle]

Stayed in the streets and cut school

Him and his old E lived on York Avenue, since he was the youngest

The only one there, so full of anger

So full of fear, he had to make some loot

He wanted to escape, his mom was bit by a poisonous snake

The pipe was a guy, she pushed him aside

No here's the deal, his heart's hard of steel

Cuz there's nothing too real when you're taught not to feel

Another motherless child gon' wild, now he's getting riches

Stacking his cash, your moms still hitting and she steals your stash

Walks in the house, crack in the kitchen

Moms doped up and his stash is missing

Could this be a dream, he screams

Ma, you a fiend, but she didn't care

Looking out the window, like nobody's there

[Chorus III: Makeba Mooncyle]

Seen the pain in his eyes

Watching his momma die

Nobody's know's why

Nobody's know's why

[Outro: Makeba Mooncycle]

The moral of the story is

Everything happen's for a reason

You can't ask yourself why

Just learn from it