(Verse)
Let me tell you how I feel right now/
I don’t worry bout the deal right now/
Head still high/
Cause I’ve been taught how to get by/
In rough times/
Problems are at their prime/
But don’t mind/
Soon it’ll all be fine/
These mexican lessons/
Truly are a blessing/
Because I don’t know what I would do without them/
During all this mayhem/
I’m a proud chicano/
Big Mexico - Americano/
Took the best of both sides/
It resides/
All inside/
My big mind/
Speak the language, broken by the schools/
Mix the spanglish, spoken by the foos/
I’m a vato, tried hard not to be a cholo/
Don’t need a gang I’ll be fine solo/
And I don’t cry no mo/
Pops said I gotta be a man, so I show no/
Single tear/
I cannot have fear/
In this world that’s so big/
You’ll snap if you’re a twig/
Altered Fiction, that means we live reality/
And it’s very scary, far from normality/
So most of the time I do have fear/
I saw a man on the corner with a sign saying that the end is near/
Screaming loud “it’s the second coming!”/
Shouting “Why aren’t y’all running?”/
Because I ain’t afraid/
I done made/
It thru 2012/
Plus I done pushed through all by myself/
It can’t be the apocalypse now/
If it is, well, hell, I’m pretty proud/
I’m proud of what I’ve done/
And awards, I maybe never won/
But deep down I still know I’m the best/
And I don’t need no test/
As some proof of my skill/
Cuz I’m ill/
Always thrill/
Have no chill/
With a will/
Like that of a warrior that kills/
For his land, but I feel/
What B-Real/
Said back in Cypress Hill/
That something hard you can’t
Understand/
Is how someone just can/
Kill a man/
Killing one another/
Leave behind their mothers/
Make sisters and brothers/
Care for each other/
It’s really all madness/
Pleasures become sadness/
Nights are at their blackest/
Careful when you open your eyes, it can turn your mind to fragments/
Reality check I’m not trippin/
The homies, eses, boolin, crippin/
I can tell their sanity slippin/
See it in their eyes holding back tears from drippin/
They laugh it off, say it’s just the hood/
I live there too, so i understood/
What can make a man kill/
Survival, the world doesn’t stand still/
Just for anybody/
Life’s rocky/
And that’s what momma said/
She’s always telling me things that get to my head/
Helps free my mind of obscurity/
Even if I live far away from purity/
It’s dark outside, and don’t even got a flashlight/
But mami says I got one inside
And it shines very bright/
Plus I got everything else I need, right?/
You have great tasting meal/
And a home/
Distractions for good feels/
And a very smart dome/
Got 2 legs and two arms/
And a body that can withstand harm/
2 eyes so you can see/
True beauty that brings glee/
Straight to the eyes of the beholder/
And she says that I am the molder/
Of my life/
I can cut through all the evil just like a knife/
Maybe more/
Like a sword/
Though I miss my innocent days with dinosaurs/
Way before/
I knew the lore/
Of the poor/
And I once was the lord/
Of daydreams, all aboard/
A trip to la-la-land/
Is all I want, but right now I stand/
My feet are planted on the soil of real life/
And know I realize/
Even with ghetto eyes/
That we don’t need to fear, cuz we’ll fly/
Be just like butterflies/
What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger, so even though you might agonize/
Recognize/
That it’s what makes one beautiful, so glamorize/
Minimize/
The worries/
Life will pass you by in a hurry/
So just live, laugh, and love/
Do all of the above/
Because there’s beauty in the struggle/
It comes in a bundle/
Don’t forget, stay humble/
And you might trip, and you might tumble/
Because I swear that you won’t crumble/
So just take it from me/
And this is just a little thing I did for free/