Take A Look Around (feat. BJ The Chicago Kid & Bilal) - Kindred The Family Soul, Bilal, BJ The Chicago Kid

Times is hard on the boulevard

Folks is bruised, battered and they scarred

Cause them bills piling sky high

And there ain’t no answers to the question why

Welfare don’t fare well

In my hood as if you can’t tell

Oh what a shame that man can’t make bail

So he sit and rot inside the jail cell

Baby mama got you stressed

Working twice as hard just to make less

It’s a dangerous cycle but we still blessed

And I’m still determined to do my very best

They trying to blame Mr. President

But it ain’t the fault of the government

When times was good how we overspent

And it came back to bite us in the ass

But don’t be fooled by the facade cause its all a mere mirage but like Charles

the brothers in charge

Take A Look Around

Said the world done changed in so many ways

From Philly to LA and even Chi-Town

But the gangsters, hustlers, fathers

Brothers holding it down we gone work it somehow

The World is a ghetto

Children walking the streets alone

Cause they got nobody home to raise em

And your moving out cause the cost of living is sky high

And you know we working on it but its no word from USA to Africa

The whole world want change

And they looking to the government to blame

Cause when you look into your pocket there’s a shame and your looking up

There’s a God up there somewhere

That sees what’s happening here

He sits high and looks low

And this gives me hope

But we got nowhere to go

It feels like nobody knows how hard it is

But take a look around

This goes out to the brothers on the corner thinking they can do what they

wanna (yeah)

You know the world ain’t what it seems just because you got a gun in the back

of your jeans

Every-time you get locked up penitentiary stocks go up

While your family sitting tore up you up state but them baby’s getting older

but the crazy part about it all somebody getting paid every-time the bars hit

the wall I pray that one day we wake up before our times is up because it would

really be lost cause if we lose everything at all

Black suit European cut with the the white shirt with the black skinny tie

dressing like Malcolm and Martin you can’t be fly with an empty mind take a

look around