Story Behind the Song
The motivation behind the lyrics are things that I believe need to change. Praise God.
-Sol Invictus-
Lyrics
A baby cries, his mother has no food for him to eat, so she takes to the streets, lookin and
searchin for a job, building after building, turnin knob after knob, but it’s in vain, she sees
that nothin’s changed, day after day to her it’s all the same, thinkin how can she servive,
wantin to get out before she’s victom to drive-bys, she takes a chance, and starts working
the streats, just to make a little money so that her and her baby can eat, and though she’s
not a freak, it happens week after week, she feels bad about what she does, and starts
takin hits just to ease the pain cause, to her the real world is just a hell, and when she gets
high, she can’t tell, soon her habit becomes addiction, and doesn’t realize the pain that
she’s inflictin, on her child or herself, now she’s too druged up to even seek some help. I
feel the pain of the world sob. And I’m still screamin God.
Let me talk about the North Side, where things are so bad they’re committin homoside,
and the East Side as well, they’re just two other places like Compton called hell, we’re at
a war with our own race, instead of consintratin on gettin the PH... up out the place, the
young people pack guns, tryin to survive tryin to increase there funds, cause if I deal then
I got money, I can drive a new car and afford a sweet honey, I make too much to go to
school, don’t trip if you was me, then you’d do it too, I can’t make ends meet off a real
job, and I’m still sreamin God.
Back to the young mothers baby, he grows up finishin school and thinks maybe, he can go
to college, get a job, be somebody, not have to rob, and so my young brother works hard,
puttin himself through school and soon can afford a car, he’s a big business man, thinkin
of how he ows it all to Uncle Sam, and the hard work he did, five years later, he’s got a
wife and a kid, and a real good job, but this is the only the beginning of my story about
Todd, he’s real glad he’s out the hood, guns, gangs, drugs, and that’s understood, he
want’s the best for his son, packs the kid with knowledge and not a gun, twenty years later
he’s out of work, layed off after twenty faithful years and that hurt, now his familys gone
broke, he looks for other jobs but then he feels no hope, and so it’s back to the ghetto,
where no one ever smiles and says hello, everyday they struggle to survive, night after
night he and his wife cry, and his son overhears, thinkin of how to put an end to all their
fears, he decides to rob a store, the gets a little money but they need more, so one night
he’s out strapped, lookin for a rich guy that he could cap, he shot a man in the head, and
then he went to take his wallet cause he knew he was dead, but when the turned the man
around he saw the face of his fauther Todd, and I’m still screamin God.
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