A mother was grieving her loss, her soldier the ultimate cost She went to the man who's been told that he's a king Waited outside of his compound to ask
I'm sending out a message to myself So that when I hear it on the radio I will know that I am fine I will know that I am love I warned myself of the
How come there's so many people willing to suffer? So they get up and suffer every day They think they were put on this Earth to suffer And by God they
All the people in your hometown When you were just a teen Said that you were pretty Like in the magazine And so you left your hometown To try out for
A suffering soul on the way to the Kingdom of Heaven Held up a sign that said, 'God hates America' A child has been lost, a mother is shocked and is grieving
We do our best, we stay in step As time goes marching by But there's something wrong We don't start living until we almost die Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah And
Some people try to keep somethin' alive After it's gone after it dies They try all kinds of things like takin' off rings Swappin' of keys, seein' who
I believe that if I work hard enough I will see that there can be enough And I believe I can think clear enough To conceive a place where there's enough
All there is, is atoms and space Everything else is illusion
When the warmth of the day becomes the night Who could sleep beneath a strange moonlight? No guiding star So far from home Walked the way o' promise
Here's to the man who gives to the poor With a hole in his pride you know He only wants to give more Here's to the man who feels for the weak The moral
Somethin' filled up My heart with nothin' Someone told me not to cry Now that I'm older My heart's colder And I can see that it's a lie Children wake
Face down with the L.A. curbside endings In ones and zeros Downtown was the perfect place to hide The first star that I saw last night Was a headlight
Woke up this morning Hoping for a better day Gotta make a change right now Gotta find a better way I took a good look at my problems And their piling
Come on Uggh Come on, although ya try to discredit Ya still never edit The needle, I'll thread it Radically poetic Standin' with the fury that they had
You go to school with your head held down You try to fit in but they push you out Too many people put your face in the ground You'll get them back, you
[Verse 1] It's no rules no parameters Started off in high school was a amateur Copping shit you can't move bulit the stamina I told my youth make moves
Wake up, wake up, get up Wake up, wake up, get up Wake up When I woke up this mornin' and got out the bed I had some really fresh thoughts goin' through