Rise Above

Its hard to rise above the influence in this world dont die in

the hood for hopeless cause i hear about familys and there

losses tear up but there aint shit i can do and it aint stopping

i pour a 40 on the curb for my dead homie i smoke some weed and

my homies catch me off gaurd telling me we have to kill dont you

see for the homie since he was a real G scared on the inside but

my hands steady my minds telling me i aint ready shhhh david

stay steady but all i can remember is that kid Dan that got shot

in the hood died exactly were he stood i can still hear his

momas crys as he choked on his blood and died dont worry youngin

theres a heaven for a G god please hear my plea the hood aint

for me ive seen to much death most my homies stuck on meth the

stench of alcohol in my breath thinking if growing up in the

hood was my lifes test im sorry ive spoken words like "fuck the

rest" im sorry god ive tried my best never good at school was

known as a fool until the hood took me under i start wonder what

i did with my life now i wake up at night clutching my knife its

all about running hiding and fighting cant walk on some streets

because of the writeing and that fear i always have of dying but

i hope i go out fighting and when my time comes and i hear the

heavenly drums i know i lived my life my way now some youngsters

going to take it away and i bet he'll sleep well that night

knowing he killed a man and i guess my life was just like Dan's

i dident fight back and i died were i stood dident even have

time to look and like all the others ill fade and all ill get is

a 40 on the curb and my homies word of revenge but what then

snap out the dream i see the clip in my hand and i know were i

stand and i know the plan so we cruise threw there hood driving

slow with the windows low listening to that Tupac "One day at a

time" and its time to shine its time to do or die i empty the

clip while i yell out my set but suddenly i start to regreat i

try and forget because i was the one who shot Dan i knew my

objective and i carried out the plan just another day in the

hood trying to survive and waiting to die...