Do you seriously think I've had it made?
All the years of survival in the shade?
Do you think I've never been broken or betrayed?
Do you think I didn't fall where I was laid?
Struggle after struggle each and every day?
Do you seriously think you're teaching something to someone who doesn't know?
When my heart hasn't ever stopped bleeding and being broke?
This life strangled me by the hold of a choke.
How do you think I find ways to laugh and to joke?
If I didn't, I wouldn't have made it.
That and by the grace of God I prayed it.
I might've been drug through the mud but I was not sedated.
A lot of you couldn't have ever related.
I've had my fights, and held my own.
I've picked myself back up bloody and alone.
Loved ones turn their backs on me to disown.
You think you're teaching me it's time that you know.
I know that I don't know everything that there is.
I don't pretend that I do through all this biz.
I've never been a genius or no kind of whiz.
But, this life has kicked my tail since I was a kid.
Pain is what I always have known.
Enemy after frenemy, foe after foe.
People that don't like me wherever I go.
That why I say kindness sticks out when it's shown.
Tons of disappointments left a rough callous.
Shattered everytime when this life's a bust.
Pieces left scattered into the dust.
Blown by the wind throughout empty promise.
Unmeasurable rivers I have cried,
Unclimbable mountains I have climbed.
Thankful I always had God by my side.
He is where I get the strength to continue to try.
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