AllOne’s Verse:
Street veterans with no heroes or heroins, just the one they’re peddling
And inject in them, as they morn the absence of dead heroes that protected them
In the wreckage left of this haggard urban
Compassion abandoned gangland babylong-gone
Tots nimbly naively hopscotch in father figure faded off chalk shapes
Where mothers hope to keep their daughters safe
And son’s are lost of they’re caught going on the train the wrong way
Or were engaged in ball too late, where girls just grown are awfully raped
Old enough to want escape young enough though to recall a game
Of jump rope with caution tape
Synchronizing steps with symphonies acquired
By the wolf-gang war near gunshots fired
While you can barely hear the distant diabolic whining
Of dominantly dirty cop’s sirens
The good ones are frightened
And the bad ones are frightening
And frankly its tiring
The plethora of reports teen orphans call in
About how often reports reap poor brothers fallen
We all wish it would halt, yet don’t help stop it
The only offered caliber education at a constant
Obtained is retaining what the stock of a Glock is
And if you don’t have a quick draw kid you’ll retain some lead
You can bet they won’t be quick to draw your shape on the cement
As the days event’s of drug hustles remain swept
Under the rug smuggled, laying it over blood puddles
For the white white collar numbskulls
Who’ve never succumbed to struggle
To get offended or become puzzled
By the image of a human skull imbued with slugs
We just damn up the flood of the damned so they’re comfortable
In their monochromatic leave it to beaver lives
Don’t want em to panic, grieve or be surprised
So they continue producing products to keep us enticed
Including the kids killed commanded in streets each night
By coveting veteran gang’s leaders to fight
For colors more important for them than stars, stripes and eagle’s flight
That floats above most of us that seem to like to believe we’re all alright
But come down to our town and see some sights
Observe some of these evil plights
Your views of peace just might
Change if you can escape and leave with your life