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Now everyday that I walk outta my building, |
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I see homeless people sleeping and chillin' on the steps to the apartment that I live in. |
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Im not saying everyone is a victim, but the people that I live would treat em more like villains then actual citizens. |
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I walk past a man laying in his own vomit, who gets his food and his garments by digging in the garbage. |
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I beg your pardon. Mr president but I'm a resident and since you've been in office I haven't seen any evidence of things changin' |
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We go into our Iraq and attack |
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When got people on the streets without a roof over their backs. |
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We've come to accept the homeless as part of our landscape. |
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The money the government wastes could provide them with a safe place. |
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To eat and sleep, but we cease to see that our own country is based around war, power and greed. |
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We got families on the street with no where to go, and the concrete's the only place they have to call home. |
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Nowhere to call your own, |
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Out here in the cold, |
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Wishin' you had a home, |
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Feelin' you're all alone. |
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x2 |
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Now every face tells a different story, a different message. |
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Now how can we judge the book when we don't know the beginning. |
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We don't know what turned 'em to the bottle, or started injectin', |
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We just see dirty clothes and another bum beggin', |
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Whatta bout the kid who was an addict the second that his mom was pregnant, |
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Or the young girl who was raped and stripped up, everything sacred. |
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Who now stands downtown walkin' on the block pacin' cause the only way she knows how to make it, is gettin' naked. |
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We don't want to face it, |
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And it being the fact that the government created the ghetto and gave it crack, |
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To oppress immigrants and blacks, and give 'em more of a set back. |
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Like the last 500 years wasn't enough to accomplish that. |
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Now look at the homeless rate, and tell me to my face the race, |
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Doesn't play an intricate part in your fate in the United States, |
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Now think about your home, and the place that you sleep, |
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And the homeless, who only have the concrete. |
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Nowhere to call your home, |
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Out here in the cold, |
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Wishin' you had a home, |
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Feelin' you're all alone. |
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x2 |
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Now if you wanna see change? |
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Then throw your ones in the air, |
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You think the system that we're living in is not fair? |
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You wanna see change? |
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Then put your ones in the air, |
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Now point it to the ground, 'cause change starts right there. |
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You wanna see change? |
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Then put your ones in the air, |
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You think the system that we're living in is not fair? |
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You wanna see change? |
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Then put your ones in the air, |
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Now point 'em to yourself, 'cause change starts right there. |
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'cause change starts right there. |
