In these troubled times, a man,
a boy will grow into a man, a man
Testing, testing, one, two, one, two
Got a little story about love
Greatest love story of all
Got a boy and his love for the world
And how he vowed to never let her fall
Always on the quest to keep in tune
Not out of tune like autotune
Some say way ahead of his time
Read a lot of books to enhance his mind
So one day when he's older
He thought it would be easy,
Out of high school early, only fourteen
A unique and highly gifted kid
Some considered him a saint,
Till he started breaking rules,
hanging around with fools and felons
cause that's what he was yelling
A little crazy, no telling,
you can almost still see the hole that I,
One casket's all it took, 8 ball J,
rest in peace, had him shook
Also the art of compassion,
a poet with a great passion to heal
So respect the architect,
In these troubled times, we'll win
A boy who grew into man, Amen
The hidden force that dwells inside,
And he'll decide he can be free, again
that he's always been gifted
He didn't pay it no mind,
The headache of being awake early
Surely one day it'll do him some good
Lift him and his family up out the hood
Says he has a master plan
Unite all races and colors of man
Until the stands of time are finished
When it's his last days on earth
Or the last days of earth
I pray that he can do it,
I pray that he sticks to it
It's getting very hard to breathe,
Everything we get we gotta give,
Life's fast and rich and famous,
Can you help, can you save us?
What just might be up to you,
What just might be up to you,
hidden that dwells inside the wind
In these troubled times, the wind
A boy will grow into a man, a man
And here this I can be free