[Verse 1]
Never gonna see that house on the hill children
Always gonna wonder what it is children
Never gonna see them palm trees children
All you gonna see is burnt down house and brick buildings
Never gonna run around in the backyard full of grass children
Never gonna fly them friendly skies children
Never gonna have your own room children
Always gotta sleep in the same bed with Mike, Jerome and Kendra and 'em

[Chorus]
Unless you focus your mind, get it right
Tell your momma you're gonna be somethin'
Get it right, let nobody stop ya
Tell your momma you're gonna be somethin'
Focus your mind, get it right
Tell your momma you're gonna be somethin'
Get it right, let nobody stop ya
Tell your momma you're gonna be somethin'

[Verse 2]
You're never gonna experience shop til' you drop children
Always gonna have that one hole in your shoe children
You're never gonna ride around with the top-down children
Cause all you know is bus pass to bus pass children
You're never gonna get that new bike children
Cause the rent money is always due children
Never gonna know the finer things in life children
Always have to struggle and settle for less children
[Verse 3: Bizzy]
Corner drunks we smoke
Guns [?]
Children seeing this, eventually can't know
Being [?] at school, be all you can be in the army
Come back to the hood [?] empty bottles of whiskey
These kids [?] no longer on scared straight
They have seen it too many times
The crime lab, the yellow tape
No [?] to be nothing but a hustler, soldier, never fake
Straps on them, now they wanna eat off a full plate
Young girls, miniskirts, tank tops