Warfare Lyrics

Another brother died in a homicide

Another family mourns, a fatherless child

Too young to know the loss in his mothers soul

Naive to the misery that the future holds

Hearts turned to stone cause they sibling never got to grow

Losing hope for tomorrow's clutching on 44's

So now it's beg or borrow ain't no pops there

Greatly increasing the chances he'll hustle rock here

Nobody really cares at least it seem not

Adding insult to injury with their cheap shots

Fox News, CNN, plus the street cops, calling us thugs

For speaking up with the have nots

Still got the target of they barrel on the black male

Prison industrial complex the new slave sales

Don't let me see you cry so said the old heads

Tryna double up a dolla outta no bread got us...

Fighting back tears thru a forced a smile

Staring at phone with no one to dial

Lord tell me where the love go

In this world where the poor suffer with no hope

Still standing strong in the belly of this Babylon

In the city tryna find the strength to carry on

What used the be the soul you'll find a ghost there

In the streets you'll find the victims of this warfare

They say when the rainstorms come

The love pours down through the pouring rain

And then when the sunshine comes

We all still grow so it's all gone change

Still standing strong in the belly of this Babylon

In the city tryna find the strength to carry on

What used the be the soul you'll find a ghost there

In the streets you'll find the victims of this warfare

Praying for a change, through the hurt and pain

Murals full of names of our brothers slain

Tryna wrap our brains around the many graves

Of children taught that murdering was the only way

Still got obituaries stacking up like decks of cards

Card stacked against black skin since civil war

They say it's in the past we shouldn't go there

But our community still broke with no hope there

Lord tell us where to go down this broken road

Where niggas sell they soul for a pot of gold

What good to gain the world for an empty hole

But it was hustle or starve he felt he had to fold

Tears in his heart but in his eyes they'll never show

The struggle fought to survive starting to take its toll

Don't let em see you cry that's his pops said

On bottle as he swallowed with his eyes red, He was...

Fighting back tears thru a forced a smile

Staring at phone with no one to dial

Lord tell me where the love go

In this world where the poor suffer with no hope

Still standing strong in the belly of this Babylon

In the city tryna find the strength to carry on

What used the be the soul you'll find a ghost there

In the streets, you'll find the victims of this warfare

They say when the rainstorms come

The love pours down through the pouring rain

And then when the sunshine comes

We all still grow so it's all gone change

Still standing strong in the belly of this Babylon

In the city tryna find the strength to carry on

What used the be the soul you'll find a ghost there

In the streets you'll find the victims of this warfare