Through My Eyes

Corner Boy Blues

CORNER BOY BLUES

Standing on the corner with my drugs and a gun

Chilling' with my boys and trying to have fun

I'm just a kid lost in the world of dope

and I can't see any way out or hope

That's corner boy blues

Stick up boys waiting to take my bread

They pull out a gun...Click...I'm not dead

The gun jams and I begin to run fast

Trouble seems to always pop up from my past

That's corner boy blues

I have no dreams for tomorrow, for I'm living day to day

Is life really supposed to be that way?

I have no future and I'm stuck in the past

At this rate my life won't last

That's corner boy blues

I'm having sex at an early age because I think I'm the man

Trying to get through life the best way I can

I'm having unprotected sex and trying to get laid

Now I have a disease called AIDS

That's corner boy blues

I hope these young g...

Spiritual Incarceration

SPIRITUAL INCARCERATION

Bound, chained, and shackled is where you can find my spirit

Locked up, locked down is where you can find my spirit

Satan is the warden of the prison and his demons are the guards

at the gate

I didn't even have a trial and he sealed my fate

Now I'm locked away in this prison called Spiritual Incarceration

Where he wants to keep me for the next generation

Institutionalize is the goal

Where he can work on my spirit and take my soul

The warden said he wants to isolate me in my cell,

put me on death row, and sentence me to hell

How did I get locked away in this prison called Spiritual

Incarceration where he wants to keep me for the next generation?

I was destined to be great, now I'm sitting in my cell and waiting

on my fate

Twenty-four hour lock down with no time on the yard

I guess that's supposed to keep me from God

My Thoughts

MY THOUGHTS

Back down memory lane is where this story starts

There are a lot of things on my mind, so I'll tell it from my heart

I can remember the best of times

I can remember the worst of times

God knows my heart and feels my pain

My life is out of focus, living in the fast lane

Looking back on the time when my daddy died

Too young to remember the sadness

Too young to remember if I cried

What's up Pops? How are things in the after life?

Your oldest son is doing good

I have three daughters and a wife

Sometimes I wish you were here to see the man I am

Other times I'm full of anger and I really don't give a damn

I hate the fact that you are not here for this part of my life

Especially when there are times I just need some fatherly advice

Sometimes I wonder if you are in heaven

Living in peace, or living in hell

A place where things...

Through My Eyes

Through my eyes I can see misery and pain

Young black youths trying to make it through the rain

Through my eyes I can see abuse and violence

Another victim trying to cope through silence

Through my eyes I can see the improper touch of little boys and

girls

Another child's sense of security and innocence lost in this cruel

world

Through my eyes I can see prejudice and hate

Passed down through generations to seal humanities fate

Through my eyes I can see sex before marriage

Too many young girls pushing a baby carriage

Through my eyes I can see fewer fathers in the home

Many of our young boys left in the streets to roam

Through my eyes I can see slums, ghettos, and the hood

Where many of our youth are so misunderstood

Through my eyes I can see the results of heroin and crack

Destroying many communities that are brown or black

Through my eyes...