16 @ War

Ain't no daddy's where I'm from, it's just mad mothers

And eyes that still seem they can't look past color

Why am I disrespected by someone I should call brother?

And why girls feelin' pretty and constantly hate each other?

Bad air in my lungs, man, I can't breathe

My eyes burnin' from all the dirt and the debris

And it's third degree, emotionless on the scene

It's like a disease, the way y'all killin' me

I'm sixteen and I shouldn't have to feel like this

I'm sixteen, every young boy out here wanna kiss

I'm sixteen, and me and my mama goin' through it

Sixteen on the block, sixteen on the block

Sixteen, at war, I'm sixteen, at war

I'm sixteen, at war, I'm sixteen, at war

I'm sixteen, at war, I'm sixteen, at war

I'm sixteen on the block, sixteen on the block

Around here cool is another word for fool

If he smoke then she smoke, I gotta smoke too

Now what would I do if I didn't have a clue?

I'm sixteen, why, oh, asking God, oh, why, oh

If my clothes ain't tight, then he ain't gone like me

Eyes on the prize, so the next girl dress just like me (Like me)

I'm so full of promise, but why promise if I'ma just be rewarded

By bad actions? To him, I'm just a transaction

I'm sixteen and I shouldn't have to feel like this

Sixteen, every young boy out here wanna kiss

Sixteen, and me and my mama goin' through it

Sixteen on the block, sixteen on the block

I'm sixteen, at war, sixteen, at war

Sixteen, at war, sixteen, oh-oh (At war)

Sixteen, at war, I'm sixteen, at war, yeah

Sixteen on the block, sixteen on the block

I want you to love my mind, my smile, my style

I want you to know the best of me

I want to belong without being treated like property

Why does this seem like fantasy?

Whoa-oh, whoa-oh, whoa-oh

I'm sixteen and I shouldn't have to feel like this

I'm sixteen, every young boy out here wanna kiss

Sixteen, and me and my mama goin' through it

Sixteen on the block, sixteen on the block

I'm sixteen, at war, sixteen, at war

I'm sixteen, at war, sixteen, at war

I'm sixteen, at war, sixteen, at war

Sixteen on the block, sixteen on the block

I'm sixteen

Oh-oh, 'ey, yeah, 'ey

Sixteen, sixteen