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i know... i know it's raining... but still... if it's enough to make you crazy and weakened
it's enough to make you lazy and sleep in sometimes, i don't want to fight no more
and it feels like a wars outside my door you know poor, is what they say i am
but i try not to focus on what's not in my hand
i offer all that i am in word, flesh and bone
to bless every home i've touched that's touched me
money never saved me it's the people that raised me
and gave me a chance out of love, out of faith, out of anything
they had just to live in this land
and succeed, be the best in whatever you believe i'm an immigrant's dream in the flesh
momma what they didn't tell you about the west is
people here live more empty and desperate once you assimilate, it's not what you expected
childhood is hectic, there is no protection i don't know a single youth that is not affected
bullet-ridden streets that's ill crack infested mind power remains our best weapon, blessed
i know, it's hard to get up some days cloud covers grey, streets the same way
damp, you could feel the northwest in my lungs but i will not be defined by where i'm from
i will not be defined by where i'm from i will not be defined by where i'm from
i will not be defined by where i'm from and i will not be confined to where i'm from
i never been a morning bird, nah more of a night-owl, stomach with a slight
growl won't eat for hella and then go on a binge
i usually forget and coffee is my friend or a dependency
hope it's not the end of me too focused on how the rent'll be made, and
then paid we stack and give it away
faster then you can say "next month is coming" emcee's today gotta have 10 jobs
to keep the lights on, hope we can get to a song
before our energies gone, and it sounds like this...
then i think of the kids and keep writing like my momma kept fighting when she thought
of me to be free
anything you say everything you pray
the answer is all within don't be afraid
we gotta be the change i'm staring at the rain
it's cold out now but life don't hesitate to slow down now would be one hell of a waste
i chase my dreams through the day with mic in palm like i'm holding my fate
and i know, it's hard to get up some days cloud covers grey, streets the same way
damp, you could feel the northwest in my lungs but i will not be defined by where i'm from
i will not be defined by where i'm from i will not be defined by where i'm from
i will not be defined by where i'm from and i will not be confined to where i'm from