Hard Life - Ibu

I was caught up, lost, mixed up in drugs

Never knew where to go when I was growing up

Imagine, being placed in a place with foreign faces

Words I never heard before

Gunshots going off in the block at the spot we live, killing women and kids

Driving down the highway, try to take it slow but you get caught up in the fast

lane

It’s a hard life

Brought up in the streets, with nothing to eat, no shoes on our feet

It’s a hard life

Always watching our backs for terrorists attacks, no time to react

It’s a hard life

Every passing time, day by day making nickels and dimes

It’s a hard life

Barely getting through the night, not the easy life

It’s a hard life

Not everyones born with gold and riches

We live in reality and not a dream

Children reading books and magazines

Following what they see on TV screens

Feeding their self-esteem with someone else’s dream, who they try to be

Working three jobs to make a living, pressures breathing down and losing oxygen

Every time we try to make a difference, things just keep getting harder

So we just close our eyes get on our knees, pray things will get brighter

You see if you just believe, its not as bad as it seems

But the moment you wake and see the light

Prepare yourself to face the fight

It’s a hard life

Brought up in the streets, with nothing to eat, no shoes on our feet

It’s a hard life

Always watching our backs for terrorists attacks, no time to react

It’s a hard life

Every passing time, day by day making nickels and dimes

It’s a hard life

Barely getting through the night, not the easy life

It’s a hard life

How would you feel walking home from work one day?

Just to see the ocean wiped your whole house away

Your mom, your dad, your brother and your sister’s gone

No where to run, no where go, and now youre all alone

Look in my eyes;

its filled with tears of confusion

I realize that there’s no other solution

Mad at the world can you feel my pain

I’m all alone all wet and cold from the rain

I ask myself, is there still hope for tomorrow?

My world just crumbled down mixed up in sorrow

Walking this lonely path I gotta move on

Fighting the battle of my life gotta stay strong

I’ll keep my head up it won’t be too long

Look at the sky its the only way, it a hard life

Theyll be a brighter day, keep your head up