413 Listen to Me
Location
This goes out to my town
Where I grew up
Where I never thought
I would see it suck...
All the souls out of it’s citizens
Scratching and itching limbs
Like it’s a normal site for the eyes
Of even the smallest kids
It started with one hit
Like it usually does
It started with a rap song
Talking about how cool it was
It started with a skate park
That was ripped away from all our hearts
With an arcade
Soon taken away
With an education system
Screwed up in too many ways
Covered in lies
Needles in thighs
Left on the streets to occupy time
Left on the streets…
Paralyzed
Why?
This goes out to the crisis in which we now endure
From bright and clear eyes
To ones that now blur
Uncontrollably closing
Before they can utter
A lifesaving word
For those who now see addiction is fatal
For those who now see this can happen
To even the ones
We call stable
This doesn’t happen to US
This couldn’t happen to US
It’s just THEM that lose it
It’s just THEM we can’t trust
Victims of judgment
Victims of a lost soul
Victims that
Will never grow old
Victims of darkness
In a fully lit room
Where getting their fix
Lightens their mood
Only to bring unavoidable doom
This is US
And this is NOW
Yet some lay voiceless
Underground
Now it’s time to reach out
So soon again we can be proud
Of this place...
My town