Malediction

One man's sin, brought guilt to all people/

Slavery to death, in the end, we're all equal//

Actions of the past putting bondage on the present/

Ancestral damage, God taught a hard lesson//

To those putting other gods before God, faced with/

Punishment to the Third and fourth generation//

Family curse, Recompense for iniquity/

Smitten with insanity, emotional instability//

A trembling heart, full of panic and depression/

Low self esteem, Become an addict for affection//

An addict for suppression, consumption to numb this/

Hunger for another dose, haunting undercover ghosts//

Diseases with no cure, cursed fruit of the body/

Can't conceive cuz family trees full of abuse as its harming/

The next generation, when will it end/

And suicide on the rise as a negligent trend//

Pretty lies is where it lies the ugly truth/

Generations cursed from crimes before their youth/

Cant explain this pain, asking why we suffer too/

Forgive us, oh God, for we know not of what we do//

Forgive us Oh God, for we know not of what we do///

Forgive us, Oh God for we know not of what we do////

I took my first sip at the age of 16/

Playing drinking games while the devil's playing me//

Gateway achieved to suck me in like a black hole/

When my dad found out, his response was "how bad, son"//

More worried than he was mad, I couldn't understand/

But the truth was right in front of me, through my dad's past//

Son, we got the bug, it's a trap we all fall in/

All it takes is one drink and the bug starts crawlin//

I downplayed and drank still, pourin in that glass/

I take my first drink, knowin it wont be my last//

Getting outta hand every weekend was a chemistry/

Independent hustle with an alcohol dependency//

Messing up my goals and my role model status/

Realize I'm not alone, lots of family share these Patterns/

My family tree is strong with a voluntary weakness/

When we drink, the battle starts again with these demons//

Are we cursed by the past, Did we practice dysfunction/

Is it our environment, consumed by consumption//

The belly of the beast is digesting us/

There's a difference between what we eat and drink and what is being fed to us/

Half-truths are bigger than the lies that they taught us as we were growing up/

And teach to this day, till we're throwing up//

Woke up from another blackout, damn what happened/

Do I take another drink or Accountability for my actions//

Pretty lies is where it lies the ugly truth/

Generations cursed from crimes before their youth/

Cant explain this pain, asking why we suffer too/

Forgive us, oh God, for we know not of what we do//

Forgive us, Oh God for we know not of what we do///

Forgive us, Oh God for we know not of what we do////

Pretty lies is where it lies the ugly truth/

Generations cursed from crimes before their youth/

Cant explain this pain, asking why we suffer too/

Forgive us, oh God, for we know not of what we do//

Forgive us, Oh God for we know not of what we do///

Forgive us, Oh God for we know not of what we do////

In loving memory of my Uncle David, and all my other loved ones, who succumbed to our generational curse