Wrote this today, feedback appreciated.
"Our Way"
-KBF
Rappers grind powder cause thats what it takes to survive
And I can't blame em a choice between they lives or dies
For those that buy, seizures are a norm part of a high
That blocks out the part of the lies that burns em inside
And I wonder why they dont spend their dollars more wise
They comprimise, eatin food from the dump is worth the high
And the desperate sighs and nighttime cries
Pondering about a life that's not theirs to decide
Whether they fight and abandon their husbands or wives
And it starts cause rappers gotta survive
On the street, ya come strong or face defeat
Masquerading as something you ain't to make it thru the week
These lil girls actin older, moaning from under the sheets
Their innocence being leeched, from what men ask they beseech
Now they in too deep, asking help from the Lord but they outta reach
Gettin a real job is a big leap from under the heap
Now they weep, but what they say, if ya laugh we with you
But if you cry you alone like your used to, a who?
Girls favorite color is blue cause its something they know about
Know theyre due, but the baby surviving is a doubt
And they wouldn't want the child to lead it's life
Growin up like it's mommy learnin less about math and more about knives
Listen to the piano keys, what ya baby could be
A baby piano ge-nius gettin away from the street way like lee
This is the way it is
How our past been lived
Chasin fugatives
The ray of light gives
In to the lure of contraceptives
And we're not receptive
To the cry of help we intercepted
A bout of crime we let give
Cause we have other in-i-tiatives
Listen, polititians whose power we voted to give
Look at your country, u banter bout how other countries live?
Of course, we're the exceptions, some of us livin exception-al
Some of us addiction of ty-lenol takin it til we're full
Takin it to the bull, cause we fed up wit the way our country is
What's mine and what's his, when we all heard about Dr. King ris-
En for peace and unity in the nation he living in, we livin in
Pay your divindends, a country divied is a sin, the one we livin' in
Through our differences, through childhood pred-ju-dice
Strolling through life, because of your race they'd hiss
Or if ya dad used your money on drugs as often as he pissed
You walk through school wit no books because of this
My dad died when a vein in his head burst ruining the bliss
I thought there was, but he had to go first, he insist-ed
And it's hard knowin someone close is dead
And it's harder knowin the gov wasn't read-
Y even though they had all the technology to pinpoint
Exactly where you are, but they can't get right to the point
React to a natural diaster, it's a skill they gotta master
Wit them it's speeches and vacations, mostly the latter
And I got so much to say
But I know it's just another day livin' our way