Song Description

courage, hope, frustration towards the ups and downs of life today

Lyrics

Verse 1:

Lord these days hip hop is barely constructive/
Rappers besides producers are rarely productive/
and sisters on the corner are looking seductive/
While brothers with their nine's are acting destructive/
Children under eleven are being abducted/ this is a fact this is what I grew up with
Despite that I was a happy go look kid/ hurt by the ones I trusted then I got corrupted/
I hated you dad for being so fake/ held on to bitterness and became what I hate
But I'm a little wiser, something like MacGyver, what can I say I was made a survivor/
What makes a local priest want to child molest? what turns a father to incest
Why don't they train police to aim for the limbs of the frame
Why does it got to be the head or the chest

Chorus:

This pain surrounds my life again and again
Lord give the strength to fight for

Every Ghetto, every street, every block drop the heat
For my soldiers that have fallen let them rise from defeat
For the love and the pain for those who are to blame
Every dog has its day, for those dying let us pray


Verse 2:

To protect us from Terrorists that got homeland security
But the danger to me is our own insecurity
Cause I'm feeling it inside the danger aint outside
Look at the eyes of a single mother after a company downsize
Now realize she's tried feeling like her hands were tied
Wide eyed in despair and there's no where to hide
Resorting to welfare as a need to get by, her son resorts to weed to get from low to high
Gun on his waste is a sense of power he tastes to him it's get rich or that flowery place
He was placed in vulnerability, masked in hostility as he cries inside this is what they did to me
Why don't we realize we can be possessed cause at 12 killing your grandparents your more than depressed
It's something in hell, an evil spirit more or less is what's causing what we call tourettes, now come on



Chorus:

This pain surrounds my life again and again
Lord give the strength to fight for

Every Ghetto, every street, every block drop the heat
For my soldiers that have fallen let them rise from defeat
For the love and the pain for those who are to blame
Every dog has its day, for those dying let us pray


Verse 3:

Now what do I say when my problems surround me
And my head is pounded me
Do I give in just to fit in and give up the whole purpose of living
See my mind was doing a 360 in a 365 and only God knows how on earth I'm still alive
Cause yea I looked real chill on the outside but on the inside I was burning up inside
See I was dying living a lie man the world was selling lies and I was constantly buying
But Christ saved my life that I aint denying so watch me as I hold up my end and keep on fighting


Chorus:

This pain surrounds my life again and again
Lord give the strength to fight for

Every Ghetto, every street, every block drop the heat
For my soldiers that have fallen let them rise from defeat
For the love and the pain for those who are to blame
Every dog has its day, for those dying let us pray