| [00:11.57] |
I was sitting on the couch reading yellow paper |
| [00:14.68] |
A letter in reply |
| [00:15.95] |
7 days later after I wrote 'em |
| [00:18.90] |
"Stay strong keep your faith in God " what I told him |
| [00:21.78] |
Hoping that he's listening |
| [00:23.20] |
Said that they tried to give him |
| [00:24.79] |
Like a hundred years |
| [00:26.26] |
What a coincidence I was bumping some Plies |
| [00:29.63] |
I can taste the salt from my tears |
| [00:32.15] |
As the water had start to flood on my eyes |
| [00:34.37] |
I know it gotta be hard being 21 |
| [00:37.94] |
Doing time in the pen and your Gram's old |
| [00:40.01] |
Your brother's getting older |
| [00:41.14] |
And the streets is getting colder |
| [00:42.90] |
And your hoping |
| [00:43.59] |
That he's focused to stay on the right road |
| [00:45.84] |
Sleeping in a cell it's been 30 weeks |
| [00:48.47] |
Ain't recieved any mail |
| [00:49.80] |
It's cold and the hole stinks |
| [00:51.46] |
And you can't even blink without niggas testing your life |
| [00:54.15] |
As I read every word that you write I can only imagine |
| [00:57.42] |
|
| [00:59.92] |
Jason Keaton I can only imagine |
| [01:03.22] |
|
| [01:09.63] |
Life's about decisions man |
| [01:12.00] |
It's in your hand and you got it |
| [01:15.10] |
Just take control if you can |
| [01:15.98] |
|
| [01:17.58] |
It's in your hand and you got it |
| [01:20.29] |
Sitting on the couch that was my Uncle Bobby |
| [01:23.03] |
After he just got out 15 years to count |
| [01:25.47] |
Haven't seen the world in so long |
| [01:27.29] |
Haven't seen a girl in so long |
| [01:29.53] |
And before the sun came up he was gone |
| [01:31.89] |
Like a fiend off the best rock |
| [01:33.49] |
Trying to get his life together or what not |
| [01:36.78] |
Typed his name in the system |
| [01:38.15] |
And they couldn't find his identity |
| [01:39.79] |
Got it straight got a place |
| [01:41.36] |
Found some serenity |
| [01:42.64] |
Found a job |
| [01:43.47] |
Found his Mother's grave site |
| [01:44.87] |
Found a 40 ounce |
| [01:46.04] |
Then he found God |
| [01:47.34] |
Then he bounced |
| [01:48.21] |
Then he found a new chick |
| [01:49.50] |
Two kids wide hips |
| [01:50.75] |
Found something in her we didn't see |
| [01:53.08] |
Found this spot in Pasadena and shack with her |
| [01:55.38] |
An investment |
| [01:57.06] |
Then found guilty |
| [01:58.03] |
Somebody had yelled domestic |
| [01:59.08] |
|
| [01:59.80] |
Violence on my Uncle |
| [02:01.19] |
Was working with two strikes |
| [02:02.48] |
Only out a year now facing life |
| [02:04.11] |
I can only imagine |
| [02:06.05] |
|
| [02:07.80] |
That's f**ked up |
| [02:08.67] |
|
| [02:10.13] |
I can only imagine Uncle Bob |
| [02:14.71] |
|
| [02:17.67] |
Life's about decisions man |
| [02:20.01] |
It's in your hand and you got it |
| [02:22.63] |
|
| [02:23.26] |
Just take control if you can |
| [02:25.72] |
It's in your hand and you got it |
| [02:28.12] |
Sitting on the couch |
| [02:29.47] |
Thinking about the ratio |
| [02:30.71] |
Of blacks in prison as compact in prison |
| [02:33.25] |
When blacks pack with minorities |
| [02:34.32] |
|
| [02:35.35] |
System grab more of these 18 year olds |
| [02:38.05] |
18 year sentence with no parole |
| [02:40.91] |
The state won't oversee |
| [02:42.27] |
They make the term severe a conspiracy |
| [02:45.02] |
That's what I call it |
| [02:46.23] |
It's full of shit |
| [02:47.20] |
A toilet can help quick |
| [02:48.46] |
The government help |
| [02:49.41] |
No just put us on death row |
| [02:51.28] |
Just give us some more guns |
| [02:52.47] |
Then give us some more coke |
| [02:54.09] |
Then give us another chair |
| [02:55.33] |
Then give us some more rope |
| [02:56.96] |
Then hang it like right there yeah |
| [02:59.15] |
It's justice for all but 90 percent unfair |
| [03:02.00] |
Care No |
| [03:03.29] |
Alcatraz was purchased by a white man |
| [03:05.63] |
For 5 grand with intentions to expand |
| [03:07.86] |
|
| [03:08.38] |
More prisons |
| [03:08.98] |
So these correctionals ain't for rehabilitation |
| [03:11.01] |
They for grossing a bigger business |
| [03:13.46] |
Imagine |
| [03:13.89] |
|
| [03:16.41] |
We're being used |
| [03:17.33] |
|
| [03:19.33] |
Imagine |
| [03:19.81] |
|
| [03:23.07] |
The truth shall be told |
| [03:24.73] |
|
| [03:25.74] |
Life's about decisions man |
| [03:28.16] |
It's in your hand and you got it |
| [03:30.68] |
|
| [03:31.43] |
Just take control if you can |
| [03:33.84] |
It's in your hand and you got it |
