A child is born with no state of mind
 Blind to the ways of mankind
 God is smiling on you and He's frowning too
 Because only God knows what you'll go through, uhh
 A child is born with no state of mind
 Blind to the ways of mankind
 God is smiling but He's frowning too

 Verse 1:

 He grew up in an instant, the fourth of seven children
 The oldest male on the block was half and half
 brown, stones to neck bones, crack joints to tones
 Where young girls spread out and drop seeds like they're farmers
 They're old as their momma's, the same age as their aunt
 and the neighbourhood drunk men and that lady with the dreaded disease
 is like hard to please
 And the house of ill fate with the metal gate
 kepp the thin people cracked out like *?puncheon?* monks
 The ole man with the fruit stand is on his man
 His hand, his ole heart just can't stand
 the CPR as they load him in the back of a car
 I'm on a world tour to help free the poor
 From the local drug cats to kids in front of the store
 Number runners, gangbangers and the big money spenders
 Reality check rings as we descend from the king

 Chorus:

 Now a child is born with no state of mind
 Blind to the ways of mankind
 God is smiling on you and He's frowning too
 Because only God knows what you'll go through
 A child is born with no state of mind
 Blind to the ways of mankind
 God is smiling but He's frowning too
 Because only God knows....

 Verse 2:

 The home's filled with horror in my horoscope
 Tomorrow I could be broke, this ain't a joke
 I'm twenty dollars from bein dead ass
 I'm bout to spend half on a bag to get my head blast
 Last week I lost to justice cycle, born
 and spawned a riff with my wiz
 now she dead with my kids
 I live by the subway, niggas push drugs in my hallway
 All day everyday tryin to get the pay
 And I be tryin ta find a better way
 You see, when you're poor then you're forced to adore to raw play
 Survival be a forte, lookin forward to robble up your food stamps
 Projects' like boot camps
 wit generals cookin chemical warfare
 Ki's to a mayor, I ain't seen ya ass in four years
 The law bears down on anybody that's brown
 My complexion puts me in the direction of the section 8
 Rejection seems to be my fate
 As a kid, don't wanna ship my momma, always said I had to wait
 And it's been drama up to date
 Enough to traumatise people's lives and the eyes they try to fixtate

 Chorus:

 A child is born with no state of mind
 Blind to the ways of mankind
 God is smiling on you but He's frowning too
 Because only God knows what you'll go through
 A child is born with no state of mind
 Blind to the ways of mankind
 God is smiling but He's frowning too
 Because...

 Verse 3:

 Born into existance with some resistance
 A struggle comin out my ol' earth's womb
 It was little past noon, three months before June
 I had a feelin I was headed toward the land of doom
 I came out and the doctor got ready to smack
 I grabbed the 'bilical cord and tried to pull myself back
 but it was too late for that cos in fact
 I'll slit the sack so I gotta maintain where I'm at
 Now I'm here breathin this diff'rent kind of air
 Poverty bound, headed for the welfare
 Drug-infested, rat-infested, people drownin in sorrow at neighbourhood bars
 Roaches bigger than my hot wheel cars
 Dope fiends with swollen arms lookin like rotten wood
 turn to crack monsters up and down the neighbourhood
 Lit the store, business soar as the crowd pour
 all thru the corridors, echo-in off the project walls
 That's why the God say

 Chorus:



 A child is born with no state of mind
 Blind to the ways of mankind
 God is smiling on you but He's frowning too
 Because only God knows what you'll go through
 *repeat