Hope Road - Thi'sl, Jai

Watching the world fall apart all around me/

Now everyday I wake up thank the Lord that He found me/

Now every chance I get man I’m praying for my dawgs/

Because they out there on the block playing with them laws/

They gave my homie 25 to life life in the pen/

He’s 17 years old never coming back again/

Now looking through a glass is the only way I see him/

I tell him bout the Lord cuz He the only can free him/

I see the baby in the crack house/

Mommy in the back room/

Sister doing drugs everyday in the bathroom/

Wonder why they pull me wild n out int he classroom/

They don’t know the story and the drama that’s attached to me/

I starred in every ghetto story/

But who’s daddy he have to ask Maury/

But Maury told him daddy never coming back again/

Cuz daddy doing life for a crime in the pen/

Man we born in the ghetto/

we raised in the ghetto/

They call us rock stars cuz we wave heavy metal/

That bullet hit us hard send us straight to the devil/

Here come the paul-bearers grave digger get the shovel/

we looking for that ribbon in the sky/

But that’s hard to see when we ain’t even got eyes/

Imma live everybody else die/

Imma crack a smile everybody else cry/

My granny told me never question God, but why so hard living where we live,

and being who we are/

the system and the laws, man they made for us to fall/

But you can help us God, please help us God./

So hard to see your world come tumbling down/

It’s falling fast and I have no idea how/

can anybody hear me/

I know, you know, what’s down the road again/

there’s hope, I know, show me/

I saw a thousand birds fall from the sky/

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sighs say we living in the last times/

the clock is ticking harder I can hear it in my mind/

We got floods in Brazil, floods in America/

Floods all around the world they even hit Australia/

Countries getting bombed, raided, war is ahead of us/

Earthquakes shake the ground, Lord what you telling us/

So many people gathered in the streets/

Uproars break out in the middle east/

Got me on my knees praying to the Lord for peace/

Bloody bodies being found dead in the streets/

We see a baby crying looking for its mom/

Searching through the rubble of a suicide bomb/

A lady crying holding onto a bloody arm/

The country getting torn apart by a civil war/

Lord they looking for that ribbon in the sky/

But it’s hard to see when they aint even got eyes/

Imma live everybody else die/

Imma crack a smile everybody else cry/

My granny told me never question God, but why so hard living where we live,

and being who we are/

the system and the laws, man they made for us to fall/

But you can help us God, please help us God./

So hard to see your world come tumbling down/

It’s falling fast and I have no idea how/

can anybody hear me/

I know, you know, what’s down the road again/

there’s hope, I know, show me/