'Cause all that glitters ain't gold
Been down them lonely roads
where the nights get cold
When we was kids we used to say
Could it be the world's grown
it just gets harder (So hard)
And my pain is getting old
Somebody said that nothing lasts forever
Just the storm so I've been told
But it seems that when it rains,
What becomes of a born loser?
I used to believe I was conceived
Daddy died young, as a son I have seen
Many nights where he abused her
When I was brought into their life hula
Used to watch Nikki on the scooter
A daughter with no father
a man's trust, scrutinized
You either treat her like your
queen or your bitch, right?
It used to light up my life until the bills weren't paid,
'Zay became like my big brother
He would hand me down 'nough hand- me- downs,
get me through a few summers
Daddy didn't preach good loving
Just about the time Momma
I was something in the making
Praising Momma raised a boy through
the dramas of a Papa's leaving
So when Daddy died of AIDS,
complicated days of a young and
Coming of age, I'm in a daze
Let me cut straight through the chase
I lived it, no twistin' it
Watching my Momma plummet
Baby boo in her stomach, womb
By the stove in the winters
Heart cold in the summers, summers
Couldn't fight the belly rumbles
Humble beginnings were mine
Family lying, uncle dying
A ladder to climb through hard times
Momma got the lupus in her bones
Roof is caving in like the
When Com. Sense said Borrow a Dollar,
Yesterday's somber with limited income
Hence I'm living from buck- to- buck
Politicians got us in the hole I
just can't fit my Momma through
It's possible to do impossible,
but by pursuit of proper route
"who got the loot" like Notorious B.I.,
Chose another brother now I'm victorious,