How Many, If Any, Really Know it’s a Game
So Petty, Not Ready, They just wanted to play
How Many, If Any, Really Know it’s a Game
I can hear my teachers scream, Yassin!

Remember when we were ten, and everything was pretend
And nothing mattered we were playing in the Schoolyard
Now that we’ve become men, everything is pretend
I’m saying brother I don’t think I know who you are
I see the games are still the same, we took it too far
Boys with their toys that turn to weapons that go to War

What is school to a fool ? What is Dumb when you’re young?
They say it’s hard in the yard, you either jump or you run
They gave a gun to your sons, told them go be a man
You’re the sum of your funds, always fold in your hands
When you shake with a snakes, but momma am I an animal?
Can’t I make some mistakes? Without watching our wrongs
With all the greed I can taste, I see the teachers and bullies
Reaching to pull me away, I’m still praying at the Schoolyard

Remember when we were ten, and everything was pretend
And nothing mattered we were playing in the Schoolyard
Now that I am a man, everything is pretend, 
I should have took the time to get to know who you are
I see the games are still the same, we took it too far
I pull your hair, you pull my cards
I’m playing two hearts

What is love to a dog ? Like Deceit to a thief
She said its hard in the yard, they never hear when I speak
So she built up a Guard, never trust in a man
His decisions are flawed, he always thinks with a snake
But mama, am I an animal? Can’t I Make some some mistakes?
Without cheating our women, on the eve of our wake
She said don’t come in the box, dropping all of your rocks
Calling me a queen? You didn’t hear me scream? In the schoolyard

Remember when we were ten and everything was pretend
And nothing mattered were were playing in the Schoolyard
Now that I am a man, everything is pretend
I’m saying brother I don’t think I know who you are
I see the games are still the same, we took it too far
Let’s leave this Earth in search of something on a new star

Live and never Regret, Forgive but never forget, I am forever in debt
For what I learned at the Schoolyard
Now my world is a mess, and I just want to be blessed
While I’m playing in the SchoolYard
Now my world is a mess, I am forever in debt
For What I learned in the SchoolYard
I can hear my teachers scream, Yassin !!!