Life Through My Eyes

No fairytales for this young black male
Some see me stranded in this land of hell, jail and crack sales
I know life is hard but carry on
Living in the projects, broke with no lights on
No fairytales for this young black male
Some see me stranded in this land of hell, jail and crack sales
I know life is hard but carry on
Living in the projects, broke with no lights on

Yo, it's just another day I wake up
It's more rock to break up
We take physical loses and you'll just take a pay cut
Plus you take a mortgage - learn to hold your home
But our credit is pathetic they just let it be known
So they evict us, got some of my sisters living in a shelter
It's the system, the difference, you teach your kids, they know better
But you go home, you know that your mom and pop there
Hell, we could go home but our life is out there
Yeah, bills through the roof, I'm making payments every week
Get my money off the boost because there aren't nobody hire me
People dieing in the community, likely of a stroke
Or kids die of ? because they shooting for that coke
Life through my bloodshot eyes
Could be trouble sometimes
I smoke the pain away but still not high
I sit there and say a prayer
After that then I'm good
Just bless the days for all my people that's raised in the hood
It's our life

No fairytales for this young black male
Some see me stranded in this land of hell, jail and crack sales
I know life is hard but carry on
Living in the projects, broke with no lights on
No fairytales for this young black male
Some see me stranded in this land of hell, jail and crack sales
I know life is hard but carry on
Living in the projects, broke with no lights on

And I don't travel the world, I wish you could see what I see
I've been through numerous hoods, they living just like we
See the war, see the struggle, see the battles in the street
Seen the hustlers get fed up, sometimes pop got the police
'Cause he couldn't stand us see us in the penitentiaries
Couldn't see those types of numbers so we selling ?
The way I see, there got to be a heaven for a G
'Cause it's hell trying to feed us, see they that legacy
See wrong, see right, depends on how you see life
See justice, she's blind, she won't let you see the light
See people doing bad, I ain't the only one that's see
It seems that they want to see us in this poverty
See I'm in the hood, they build their condos in a week
Shit it hurt to live like this, and see it's nice to see it across the street
But if you forgot, this life ain't right
You could ? and when I'm ? and see life through my eyes and let's go

No fairytales for this young black male
Some see me stranded in this land of hell, jail and crack sales
I know life is hard but carry on
Living in the projects, broke with no lights on
No fairytales for this young black male
Some see me stranded in this land of hell, jail and crack sales
I know life is hard but carry on
Living in the projects, broke with no lights on

Yo, I saw the reigns in the hood
saw a dude take a trip it was like
Chilling with them thangs in this hood
Even saw, young poor who slip, he got hit with a clip
And that dude who took that route, he got hit with like ten
Saw the inside of a ?, Just bums and feet
Saw the laws of the ? nigga, B's and C's
Got kings in GD's, Saw life took by for two G's
I saw the dope killer fiend and that just bring you more cheese
I saw the block that was worse than the best
I saw a man play with a gun and shoot himself in the chest
I'm trying to write so you can see what he saw
You know, Life through his eyes, that be Tupac Shakur and let's go

No fairytales for this young black male
Some see me stranded in this land of hell, jail and crack sales
I know life is hard but carry on
Living in the projects, broke with no lights on
No fairytales for this young black male
Some see me stranded in this land of hell, jail and crack sales
I know life is hard but carry on
Living in the projects, broke with no lights on