Lord Why ft. Mic Mountain & Reckless Mind Lyrics

If I should die

Hope I make it to the sky

Then I stand eye to eye

Then ask the maker Lord why

Lord why

Why do young mothers bury sons

Lord why

Why you lettin' children carry guns

If I should die

Hope I make it to the sky

Then I stand eye to eye

Then ask the maker Lord why

Lord why

Why so many starvin' on the streets

Or how about the homeless with nowhere to sleep

When the pandemic hit you was broke and bugging

When the pandemic hit I made something out of nothing

I sharpened my skills and added a few hustles

Took advantage of my talents and battled a few struggles

That's why you hating, and I have no remorse

Cuz I can lead someone to water but you can't drink for the horse

Of course I don't want to see you suffer or my brother die

Plus I'm tired of hearing loud screams when another mother's cries

So I try to do my part and set the example

Of what it is to be a man but there's only a handful

To learn from, in a community where they do burn guns

And if you find a way out it's because you earned one

I tell these kids to go to school and get an education

Build their own business so they won't be begging and waiting

On the next man, cuz time is like grains of sand

To make it in this land you gotta have a solid plan

If I should die

Hope I make it to the sky

Then I stand eye to eye

Then ask the maker Lord why

Lord why

Why do young mothers bury sons

Lord why

Why you lettin' children carry guns

If I should die

Hope I make it to the sky

Then I stand eye to eye

Then ask the maker Lord why

Lord why

Why so many starving on the streets

Or how about the homeless with nowhere to sleep

Lord why you let us doubt ourselves

Provoking thoughts take control till we find ourselves

In bad places full of destruction

Everybody tryna move through the dysfunction

A worse notion we all try to keep is

That the little things that hurt don't mean

Wait

Let me take a step back from all the drama

Very little people evaluate the problems

I'm bout a

Be the realist I can be when I spit

Be straight forward

Don't sugarcoat this

Cause we need to understand one thing

The world ain't getting more perfect then it is

I pray everyday for the souls of these kids

Lord please guide them

Cause their reckless

In all their actions and decisions

So save them from the worlds temptation

If I should die

Hope I make it to the sky

Then I stand eye to eye

Then ask the maker Lord why

Lord why

Why do young mothers bury sons

Lord why

Why you lettin' children carry guns

If I should die

Hope I make it to the sky

Then I stand eye to eye

Then ask the maker Lord why

Lord why

Why so many starving on the streets

Or how about the homeless with nowhere to sleep

Oh no

There's a body by the tree

With no shoes or coat on

Shock and disbelief

Now I was only twelve

But I understood the peril

Of stick up kids stickin' up kids

For their apparel

Cause crabs in a barrel

Got the system working fine

The poor robs the poor

Whole city in decline

And the cops wicked

If it's beef they cook it

And yeah they all dicks

And like my dick they crooked

Goons on the loose

Treating kids like paypal

Like when I got robbed

Dude tellin me to lay down

Only had a couple dollars

Dude ain't have no mask on

Thought I was a goner

All he said was take my ass home

Fortunate to be alive

Expressing it in song

Lowering my bmi

Just from getting bars off

But still life is ill

So they fill me full of pills

When I see God

Ask her really what the deal