Role Models Lyrics

Look into your mother's eyes

And realize they've been full of pain

(Look into it)

Heart broken seven times over in the same week

(Seven times)

Job let her leave after 20 years and she broke in tears

(Full of pain)

Look into the mirror to convince herself she's not weak

(Nah, nah, nah)

'Cause she don't do this for herself

She does it for her two kids

(Uh, huh)

No man in sight so she gotta pull her own weight

Times two

Maybe tenfold

'Cause tomorrow's never promised

And the future doesn't know what it holds

No one to console her when she's drinking alone

(Wait a minute)

No one to control her all her feelings her own

(Wait a minute)

Staring at the wall and noticed cracks in the fold

Mapping out her life

She knows that something is wrong

Where does it begin?

'Cause she don't know when it ends

(No one knows)

Tried to turn her life but she was turned at the door

(Where to go?)

Screaming in the parking lot a porcelain doll

With cracks up on the surface

Tryna mend the wounds from the fall

Tryna rise up out her hell to keep her daughters in school

(Rising up)

Working double shifts at night

So she don't see 'em at all

(For her kids)

But she gotta keep the hustle barely staying afloat

And her momma would've told her

Where the fuck is you now?

Had her first kid at 16 and ran from her home

No parental figures had it figured out on her own

(Where the fuck is you now?)

And her daughter's now in college

Almost got her degree

Tryna make her momma proud

'Cause she been through a lot

Living off of borrowed times

Saddened by all the mourning cries

The morning ties

All of our dreams together

The hopes that we made it better

For all of our sisters struggling

Fighting two battles

A war they called for our help we failed them

We gotta do better and fight it with them

Now listen I know they taught you in schools

That you gon' reap what you sow

But when you're living in Africa they gon' bet against you

And when you're living below your means

They gon' wrap you in chains

In the past it was slavery now it's minimum wage

Blue collars the villains within the eyes of the system

We earn our living through pennies

That's why we have to repeat it

Because your school wouldn't teach it

And the news won't believe it

Spin it around for the CEO making money off you

They gon' tell you it's fine

Then skip the message for dimes

They made up off of your suffering