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Yo, You see the truth is, had the potential to do this But loose lips, sunk that ship and that movement That ruthless, lookin' for an easy escape plan Self-medication, wait fam What I wouldn't do to wipe clean the slate man But well wishin' only so far it would take him Why you trade one vice for one more, hopin' the piece fit Ain't no secret, you was just the last to see it Down And I'm scared that you lost now It seems that your love for this life got you locked down And I know That you feelin' so hopeless, chainsmokin', lookin' for an outlet to focus To breakthrough, doesn't matter where it gon' take you Time changes but you swear the time, it won't change you And I know Mama told me there'd be times like these Where you can't find peace I know it's hard to see but When it seems that we can't carry on much longer I will, trust you, to guide me When it seems that we can't carry on much longer I will, trust you, to guide me I been wastin' time, my nine-to-five a life of crime Mama cryin' lost her mind when, she heard coppers read my rights While I'm locked inside for forty five For robbin' lives with forty fives She on my side, prayed all the time For, forty days and forty nights And I don't know, I don't know if I am gonna make it But mama put my life inside his hands, I guess I'll take it And I don't know, no, I don't know if I am gonna make it But mama put my life inside his hands, I guess I'll take it When it seems that we can't carry on much longer I will, trust you, to guide me When it seems that we can't carry on much longer I will, trust you, to guide me I don't know, I don't know If I'm gonna I don't know, I don't know If I'm gonna I don't know, I don't know If I'm gonna I don't know, I don't know If I'm gonna I don't know, I don't know If I'm gonna I don't know, I don't know If I'm gonna No, no, no No, no, no No, no, no And I don't know if I'ma make it Mama's prayers ain't enough to stop this achin' I'm tired, of seeing my brothers on the pavement Impatient, contemplatin', lookin' around Like what they sayin', yeah Look at the news they hate us All they do is degrade us If we on TV it's for sports and public shamin' Or comedy I see the irony in making 'em laugh See we just entertainment to the faces facin' the glass Closed caskets, rose petals and baskets Black blood and the sun, grew the roses where you standin' Candlelight vigils, another night, another victim All in a day's work for the federal justice system Just listen As I sit on this bus, headed to prison Wishin', I had somebody to tell me that I was trippin' But I didn't And if they ain't gon' give it, then I'ma get it Always saw me as a thug so I really became a menace Turn these bricks into a business Mama prayin' for my sinnin' It's funny, 'cuz these bricks, the foundation, for my sentence Got me callin' out for help dog They see my color tell me, "Hell nah" Yeah They throw us out by the masses With the roaches and rats and Tell us that nothin's happenin While we die by their hand and When we expose the man They choke us out 'till we gaspin' And I can't breathe, this unforgivable blackness