Intro:
Before you even open your ears to finish hearing this song
All imma tell you right now
Is don't shoot the messenger man
Pay very close attention to what I'm saying
Verse 1
Every time I see the news on my television
I'm seeing another youngin heading to the penitentiary
Arm robber or simple Bulgary
Or even worst trynna catch them on a murder case
Getting life when they ain't never get to live one
Make the wrong decision and fall a victim to the system
Now everybody doing time
There momma and family cause it's k**ing them inside
Can't forget about the new born
No understanding what going on with the family
Or what happen to his daddy
But eventually you got to tell the truth
There goes another cycle
When they find out they been lied too
Now they don't wanna hear a damn thing that comes from momma
Because in their eyes you broke the rules
d**h before dishonor
There goes another adolescence lost in the maze
Take this how you wanna I'm just saying we need to change
Hook
She don't wanna hear me now
He still don't wanna make it out
The youth are going crazy now
All I'm asking is can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
I'm asking can you hear me now?
Verse
Young ladies having kids up in high school
Pregnant with the second one and probably not the same dude
Some don't make it up to college
And now they realizing it's gone take more than love to be a momma
Gotta learn life the hard way
9-5
5-9
Overtime and still barley get the bill pays
Now your force to be a woman when your just a child
Because at your age your not suppose to know what stress about
Grandma and grandpa
They Always got the babies
Cause quality time don't go away with out high waiting
While they grow older by default of their own
And by the age of fourteen
They claiming that they grown
Bridge
And they don't want to hear a damn thing come from momma
Because in their eyes you broke the rules
d**h before dishonor
There goes another adolescence lost in the maze
Take this how you wanna I'm just saying we need to change