Started From The Bottom
I might not have much but ...
I take what I got & make it the best I can be.
I don't accept your apology
because you can't seem to see, the struggle
What it is to come from nothing
To try to evolve into something
Especially in this world of cruelty & hate
More hard with the double standards
I got to ask what is my fate?
Religion or science, which do I believe?
What's real? what's true? I don't want to be deceived.
You're fed with a silver spoon.
I'm from the ghetto, the hood
People say "you'll never be any good"
Music is my release
I wear my heart on my sleeve.
I'm just having fun;
I'm just trying to be free
At least that's until you & society come back to judge me
& make me feel so less like I'm just a smudge, but really? me?
I'm a speck of your ignorance
And everybody praises you for your elegance.
I feel I am the mess up
I have to put a smile on my face when I am down
I AM THE ONE who has to play dress up.
The energy of regret is greater than the energy of progress.
I'm not apologizing for the pride I feel that comes w/ my success.
But you hate it, don't you?
You hate to see me beautifully smile.
I've been coming up all the while.
Your pain goes an inch compared to my mile
& you refuse to reconcile.
Our differences..
In public..
You try to put us on the same page as if were some sort of equal
As if we deal w/ life equally
But you don't & won't understand
how much having my own means to me.
Have you ever felt so alone
as if you had was just your 206 bones
Or had all the sadness to cry
but not one tear comes to your eye.
I can't let the streets hear me weak
death or jail, innocent or guilty plea
I have a dream yet no ones believes.
I'm saying I can't because I don't even believe in me.
It's a hard knock LIFE!
For me, for we,
Those looked down on by the community.
Looking for the right path
They mock us
like they've been filled w/ laughing gas.
Heart breaking, heart aching.
No. This pain AIN'T staying.
Icy blue hearts are the coldest,
allow mines to turn
so I can become the boldest
I deserve a chance.
I deserve a chance .
I deserve to be heard
And I will always continue to write
until you can feel my words.