[Intro]
Lawd
Knowledge, above all nonsense n***a
Pay attention
Look

[Verse 1]
Don't step one foot up in the ride 'less you understand the vibe
That somebody 'bout to motherfucking die from a side
Where the colors collide
They got a look up in their eye
Like a thirst for another homicide
To decide, never get you for the drive
Anywhere that you would hide
Is easy for the bullet to come and find
Never mind what that means to define, what do you really [?]
But I seen you been complacent with a lie
N***a tryna be the one without the substance abusing
[?] with a regular influence
The problem is that life is so motherfucking confusing
The path that he walks nobody would ever choose it
Diffusing the situation, but the manifest too evasive
A scar for the heart but it's hard to erase it
The pain that remains and a drug to replace
With the same sad look up on his face
N***a woke up in the morning with a different type'a goal
Turned cold from the fact that his father was never 'round
Picking up a semi auto, bouta lay the victim down
Blood drips from the body to the cracks of the ground
Then they mash on the gas, but they pass 5-O in they cut
Red lights everybody like fuck, just hush
3 n***as, 2 guns, 1 blunt
Put that motherfucking pistol up under the damn seat
Don't move and the cop'll approach
With a boisterous boast "So I caught you doing 50 when the limit 35, please turn the engine off and everybody out the ride"
So he sits up on the curb outside
What they found was a stereotype
It wasn't even surprising that he had enough evidence to put 'em up in a cell
Another young black male with some difficult problems
But a penitentiary will help solve them
Lawd

Somebody told me that this life is but a dream
I reside in agony where happiness is never seen
Ask me why I'm so depressed and I confess my future's bleak
With all these voices in my head and I can't motherfucking think
Damn

[Verse 2]
Meanwhile there's a child laying dead from a gash
That was riddled with bullets that tore his body up in half
Do the math, he was only like six
Caught five from a clip
Thats a mac-11 auto tip straight to the hip
When it ripped through the flesh and then punctured the spine
But it left through the chest and the barrel was suppressed
Now the concrete's a motherfucking mess
Bet the n***a standing next to the body is feeling blessed
Man that bullet wasn't meant for an innocent bystander
Delusions of grandeur, to think that the violence has a name
But it does, its the one's that they claim
From the boy that was slain to the young man sitting in a cell
But the n***a that was running away from the bullets and covering hide hops up and finally realized, witnessing the death of his one child
Through the midst of the madness
The man sits down to reflect on society
He was tired of living trife
Took a singular second to try and get his mind right
Mustn't trip but the force of the moment changed his whole life
And he knows that he'll never be the same
This blood will drive him insane
He was thinking 'bout the pain that it caused
The emotional loss
But in all actuality
It probably was the cause of the cost
He was paying with a seed
I'm praying that everybody takes heed
Based this off an article I found, hidden in a publication
It's not a fabricated allegation
A gory allegory and the moral of the motherfucking story
Is try to be positive, not deceitful but alive
N***a never pick the day when you die, try
Be a better person while you're still alive
And search for the divine that you never seem to find
Understand that happiness is the best state of mind
God damn

I been terrified of the way I'm living
Cut my wrists, I watch it drip
Hope I'm forgiven for my sinning
And I'm only 23 but I feel like my life is ending
I've been speaking with Jehovah and he told me that it's hopeless
Damn

[Outro]
My grandpa asked me one time if I care whether I live or die?
Yeah I do
And now it's too late