Black Hearts - Reverie

My city got problems

Mr. President, why don’t you solve em

Why you choose to cause division with precision

Look, the system that’s in place ain’t fucken working

I’ve been to Ferguson

Seen people live like they ain’t worth a shit

My people smoking, tweeking, codeine, percocetting

It’s upsetting

So broke and hungry, antsy, bust a 2−11

Class in session

This confession gon make people hate me cuz I’m honest

My culture is addicted to the chaos, no days off

Got juvenile delinquents doing years in juvey

If only you knew the injustices and corruption

One day it’s gon be in movies

How do we change the cycle

They say «don't play the victim»

Like it’s easy to ignore discrimination and hide it from the children

Like they ain’t gon experience it in the real world

Educate the youth and talk about reality so they could get a feel for it

Half my childhood friends doing life, locked up in the feds, or dead

So don’t talk to me about equality, cuz all I see is hypocrisy

I’m tryna live my life, but I’m lost

My addictions rotate, but liquor is my new favorite

I’m tryna live my life, but I’m lost

Liquor store on every corner

How can I resist temptation?

I’m tryna live my life, but I’m lost

My big brother out there banging

And my daddy ain’t around

I’m tryna live my life, but I’m lost

How can I escape when I’m trapped inside this town

I’m human, I’m hypocrisy, exist with instability

Watch yo friends, watch yo enemies

Business partners ain’t friends to me

She’s slanging out that pusssy

Cuz she got no other options

She’s 15, in a sick dream

And ain’t nobody talking no sense, no rules, no curfew

No stress and no school, no parents

Abueltita can’t even speak her language, broken English

Broken ego, broken dreams, a hopeless mind state

I probably woulda been friends with her back in my day

Gotta hide the pain- cuz tears, they bring shame

When rain is all you see, it’s hard to get up out the game

Today I’m doin okay. Sometimes I’m suicidal

I am my own worst enemy, I am my biggest rival

I really miss you, I cried for you today

I hate hearing your name, standing over your grave

Sometimes I think I’m crazy, I know that I’m insane

You’ll never understand my past, so don’t speak up on my name

I’m tryna live my life, but I’m lost

My addictions rotate, but liquor is my new favorite

I’m tryna live my life, but I’m lost

Liquor store on every corner- how could I resist temptation

I’m tryna live my life, but I’m lost

My big brother out there banging and my daddy ain’t around

I’m tryna live my life, but I’m lost

How can I escape when I’m trapped inside this town