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Everytime I Look Around the Corner

I live a life in a place where alcohol violence reigns supreme/ over a dying culture split in se7en groups of se7enty times se7en of rival teams/ I hear my brothers hollers I hear my sisters screams/ I see people live among broken glass like that of many broken dreams/ I sometimes wish I could not see what my two eyes sometimes see/ I cant act blind as if it were just a brush off my sleeve/ The more I lose in life the more it seems the less I need/ I try and overcome my own selfish greed/ I got a child on the way I now look at what kind of role model I'd be/ I was was incarcerated so I must not take for granted for the simple fact that Im free/ But it hard with tattoos on my face in place where tattoos like mine seem a disgrace/ Lord watch over me as I take last place in this life game race/ It not a matter of being first second or third Lord cuz all I need iz your grace/ help me to better walk off this destructive road and slow my pace/ Just take me now if Im done with your purpose if thats the case/ Because I dont want to live like I got to look over my shoulder right around the corner....

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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