Took a brother's life with a knife as his wife
Cried cause he died a trifling death
When he left his very last breath
Was I slept so watch your step
We got street soldiers and heat holders that go
click-click-click in the night
Streets watched and raised me
But I ain't crazy
So I'll give you a dollar for thoughts
And a penny for your struggles
You see, we got modern-day martyrs
Models of modesty and mayhem
Drenched in pools of tears
Wept on consecutive nights
for young'ins that didn't make it past their formative years
I shed hidden teardrops everytime I hear shots licked
Single mothers gettin kicked in the womb post-partum
They didn't pardon my interruption
When I made my way down Blue Hill like Paul Revere
The niggas are near
The niggas are near
They fell on deaf ears finger-fuqed with fortified emotions
This roller coaster wasn't built
for the last to go first
So as we chase this black hearse and with a fifth of sumthin sweet
I send this one out to all the mothers
fighting for their children's lives against the evils of the streets
ummm...needs work but needed to be done
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I can hear the sound now
clear as the star-sparkled sky
as the night's calm got caught up in the crackle of gusto
can you hear the sound of the reaper hovering over lost souls
some never meant for these premature exits
yet we uncomfortably opt to console our living wounds
with purple hazed images of wonderyears and
can did cameras
you ever seen a single mom become
single again
it ain't pretty
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