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  • Genre:Hip Hop & Rap
  • Year of Release:2023

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This week, we are tackling the difficult topic of suicide

I don't even know if this is a song

Just some stuff I wrote about perspective

But to put it into perspective..


About being kind

Because you have no idea the bigger picture your words can lead to

Spread love

Be kind


We all fighting something

Let's not make at each other

46,000 people died by suicide in 2020

That's about 1,600 fewer than the year before


That's not much

This is the story of two kids

One of them wishes every day school ends

Tommy didn't have any friends


Nothing cool to do after school with

Lost in himself, silent lies left him feeling truthless

Every time he got asked how school went

Put on a smile and kept it moving


Scared to tell anyone what they were doing

What's the point with no way to prove it

Dad would just shrug

Kids will be kids, stand tough


So every time he walks into lunch

Billy throws him an apple, but not to suck up

Hits him in the head, but the heart's where it struck

Counting down to 315 for the rest of the month


When graduation comes, he's no longer stuck

But for now, get through the day, feeling no luck

They just sitting in math class

Every time the teacher turns his back


Billy flicks him in the head just to make the class laugh

He thinks about getting him back

His dad's shotgun he wouldn't even miss if he grabbed

Goes home, sits in the room, ready attack


Dad walks in, how was school he asks

Fighting the tears back, he mumbles, fine dad

He tells him dinner's ready in an hour and a half

Dad holding his thoughts in


Closes the door cause he don't feel like talking

In a way he's ashamed

Wanted a kid that did all the same things that he always did

In a way he got exactly as he wished


Dad bullied the kids just like his son for being different

Ten years later his son eases the pain

Grabs the gun meant for Billy but changes his aim

One shot and now everyone remembers his name


This is the story of two kids

One of them wishes every day school would never end

Not aware when it does he'll have no friends

They all off to college but he didn't get in


Ten years of drinking every day reminiscing

Looking at the trophies in his mother's basement

Goes to see himself, there's a different person

Wiping off the dust is Tommy's reflection


Knows he led the way, the football captain

Morgan ain't the reason for his actions

Shaken when he goes to put the key in his gun cabinet

A life for a life he feels is the only caption


Just before he blasts he wakes up gasping

One month to graduation I can change what happens

Spends the next years making up for his actions

Tommy started trading his tears for laughing


And Billy found a friend that's forever lasting

Amazing how one dream changed two bullets from ever happening

Now there is no single cause of suicide

While depression is the most common condition associated with it


It is often undiagnosed

Words

Words can change the world

Change yours and let's do it together


So some of the health risks involved in suicide

Things to watch out for

Long term harassment at school

Bullying


Maybe it's a relationship problem they just can't move past

Something stressful like a divorce

Or in this case maybe family financial crisis

One indicator of suicide right now is that so many people have lost loved ones because of this pandemic


And also jobs

Now there are ways to protect and intervene

To get in there before we get to this level

Connection to family and familial support


If your kid is going away everyday and they're on the internet and you're not having that interaction with them

Break that

Have some connection with them

Those touch points

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