A Cry For the Future
This goes out to everyone who has ever lost someone to the streets.
I cry a tear for everyone who has ever lost someone to the streets.
So when you look to the floor that's why there is a puddle at my feet.
Please my fathers brothers sons boyfriends husbands wake up.
We have to live better do better.
Once your gone there is no coming back.
Your killing for money and jewels non of which you take with you when your gone.
We need to lift each other up not bring each other down.
If we don't who will?
My heartaches because so much is not understood.
Killing someone for coming to what you call your "hood."
I cant find the words to get you all to see the light.
The rate were leaving is just not right.
Babies never getting to be boys boys never getting to be men
We must not let evil win
Day after day same thing on the news another young person gunned down on a city block
Make a change the foolishness must stop
Speaking to you all from my heart take negativity and make positivity
None of us want to die so why be so quick to take another's life
Leaving lonely mothers sisters daughters and someones wife
Put the guns down find another way there's a lot on your mind I know you want to say
Lets turn this around Baltimore starting with today
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