Forward,forward, back, back, back

I've fallen and I can't get up and I'm slipping through the cracks

I'm in a crisis and I can't afford the prices

No means to feed my family, never mind the nices

No escape, no pleasure

I really can't seem to get my shit together

Can't protect my children from the weather

Me and my baby skin grows the toughest leather



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Where do they go?

When it rains

Where do they go?

When it snows

Where do they go?

When the cold winds blow

Where do they go?

When we are warm behind closed doors



The children cry themselves to sleep

Another night with no food to eat

Tear soaked pillow is a step of concrete

It's enough to drive me to rob steal kill or cheat

You may ask how can you live this rigid life

No means to feed or house your babies and your wife

As I will, I sunk to depths you can't fathom

My lifes a blunder, it's no wonder why you can't imagine



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[REGGAE BREAKDOWN]



Dem a go back down, dem a go way out

Back to this real world we live in

Dem a too far down, dem a too far out

For the real concern we're givin'

Dem all rob and steal, shoot up and kill

Is the common misconception

We all justify, we all ease our minds

With these deceptions



Now if life was a thing that money coulda buy

Then the rich man would make war and the poor man would fight

The rich mother would pity while the poor mother would cry

While the rich make excuses and the poor people die



Type a thing make I wanna go run and hide

Back to me condo over off of Rodeo Dr.

Grab a beer, try to remember a verse from the Bible

Put on me Tivo and see who's off American Idol



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