J-Baby Relapse & Recovery

Hey young man – what’s on your mind
So you think its cool to be the show off kind
Always loud and putting other people down
Drinking and acting like a clown
Respect is what you want from the hood
And you seek to be satisfied anyway you could
People smile in your face and you think they really love you
But you would rather believe a lie than to face what is true
Just soothe yourself by smoking weed, drinking beers
Doing your dirt and driving your cars
Being more than willing to hide behind anything
Than face what you really are
Afraid to fight anything or anybody up and up and one on one
If you can’t hide behind your boys, you run and get a gun
Call yourself a real trooper on the block
Always want to prove you got the biggest penis and the most heart
You even disrespect your elders cause you think you’re a man
Because you got a girl pregnant, she had a little boy
And he calls you Dad
Your girls on welfare, you’re living with her mama
You drop out of school, got no job
And still you think you’re bad
With your chest puffed up, showing your chain
Like you’re down with the big boys and ahead of the game
Yah – you done it all, seen it all, there’s nothing you can’t do
People dying on the streets but that will never happen to you
So you can get drunk, drive your car and still make it home
Shoot dope, smoking cocaine, party all night, you’re never alone
So I came to visit you at the hospital with this black rose
To put in your hands
Someone told me you have HIV
I didn’t believe them but now I understand
After running people’s lives and breaking up home after home
I stand and look down on you, dying all alone
So where’s your home boys, you know, the ones that partied
Smiled, had fun and laughed
I guess they just rolled over, so you can kiss their ass
Oh, but you didn’t lose everything
Knowledge is what you gained
What comes around, goes around
And one night of passion
Can give you a life of pain