Woke up in the dark, ain’t no sun in my sky yet,
Mama in the kitchen, praying hard, ‘cause we ain't met
A way out this cycle, drowning in the mindset,
Daddy in the grave, streets took him, now I digest—
A life built on struggle, I ain't ask for this fate,
Every dream that I chase just collapses in place.
Fifteen with a record, yeah, the system’s a maze,
Told me "pull yourself up," but they ain't give me no way
Lay me down where the sun don’t shine,
Let the waves carve my name, leave it behind.
If I close my eyes, will the silence stay?
Or will the ocean erase me, just wash me away?
Yeah, old lady on the block say she seen it all before,
Sons turn to ghosts, just a body on the floor.
Cops ride slow, but they never really help,
Just another number lost, thrown inside a cell.
Mama working doubles just to keep the lights on,
Her baby in the system, he ain't do nothing wrong.
Wrong place, wrong time, now she screaming at the sky,
Another son gone, tell me how’s that justified?
I’ve been searching for a meaning, but it’s harder to find,
When every road that I take leaves me trapped in my mind.
The weight of the world, yeah, it’s pressing me down,
But the bed at the bottom still calls with no sound.
Lay me down where the sun don’t shine,
Let the waves carve my name, leave it behind.
If I close my eyes, will the silence stay?
Or will the ocean erase me, just wash me away?
But I still rise, yeah, I still fight,
Even when the darkness tries to swallow my light.
Told me I was nothing, just a product of pain,
But I carved out my name, now remember my name.
Not every whisper is a voice you should trust,
Not every grave is the end of us.
Yeah, I see the bed at the bottom of the sea,
But I ain't laying down—I'm rewriting the dream.
So to my brothers and my sisters, keep your head up high,
Even in the ghetto, we can touch the sky.
We ain't meant to suffer, we were born to fly,
One day we'll make it out, just gotta keep that fire alive.
©zars
Z