take you to a place
where the rays off the sun
Blocked by the great lofty
rain off to come
Single parents and family raise all
When it once took a village,
now they call a slum
People don't greet or smile,
they poke a face, call him tough
A wild card may call you bluff
Blades don't pay off,
they blaze all the guns
Maybe take all your bucks,
maybe pay off for drugs
They know what's up, pay off a suck
They all cor rupt,
somebody might pay off the judge
See, knowledge is the key
and the truth shall set you free
But it's so hard to take off the cuffs
When the laws of the land
don't scrape off the scum
Bags bum politicians
waste all the funds
Schools don't teach,
so the playground is love
Till the strain blow,
make a soul take off above
His mama dressed in black,
she make all the fuss
He could've been an ex
-MJ off the jump
Hang out the tongue, free throw,
take off and dunk
The newspaper say, all for what?
The police was looking for witness
But they always dumb
Nobody wanna cooperate, not with fuzz
They use us to make all the bust
Intoxic heroes, sandwich the dogs
who make off for lunch
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise,
Sunrise, sunset
What you want, what you want,
what you got
I just wanted to feel this beat
right here
Another gray matter like
a brain pat tern
Confused with her color change parents
Family on the light side,
don't accept the dark side
Sorta like apartheid,
pass each other by like the far side
Fat lip like a daddy,
flat butt like a mammy
Nobody can relate in the family
She can't sit with granny
cause her skin too brown
Ain't from Tanny, whatever
She feel like a big boy and
Andre together
Without the umbrella
in the same rain weather
And that's a outcast
if your brain ain't clever
But it's great could be a
change for the better,
gotta mistakes, nothing
Sun and fire, sun and sand
Sun and fire, sun and sand
Sun and fire, sun and
Sun and fire, sun and sand
Now as I walk through the valley
in the shadow of death
Real ji had, the battle itself,
I'm not a superman
Everything's out of my chest except S
I'll be okay,
press Q to destroy that stress
Pimp the rhyme skills
like a prostitute in high heels
Walking through a minefield,
tryna blow the fuck up
Neck high on bills,
Indy on the driver wheel
Maybe I should sign a deal,
maybe that'll slow the buck up
And I can't afford it,
my fam gotta stay supported
They wanna grow tall on the charts
and get shorter by the corporate
You need more than Trojan type horses
To penetrate they fortify fortress
They hire more lawyers
that'll run circles around your office
J .D. weighs often,
whites get weighed,
gotta be Navy trained
Sometimes sunshine is only a phase,
making this paper,
save it later for a rainy day
Sunrise, sunset,
sunrise,
sunrise, sunset
What you want, what you want,
what you want
Sunrise, sunset,
what you want me to do?
Sunrise, sunset,
what you want me to do?
Sunrise, sunset,
what you want me to do?
Sonny and my father always said
that when I get older I would understand,
well, I finally did.
I learned something from these two men,
I learned to give love and get love
unconditionally,
you just have to accept
people for what they are,
and I learned the greatest gift of all,
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent
and the choices that you make
will shape your life forever.