I remember when she gave her life to the pipe,
started hanging with hypes,
and ever since then she been bullcrap and lying,
scrapping up on nickels and dimes,
dancing in the rain like a masquerade,
trying to take away the pain that she felt inside,
but she ain't fooling nobody cause
everybody knows that crack fiends eyes pop up,
got it in here like somebody already did,
you see the tears in the mirror,
but God on our side,
I tried to make your life clearer,
better,
plenty of rounds to make us chatter,
money to do whatever,
but please don't play
me cause if you hurt me and play me with your games and lies,
yo I'm gonna have to say
goodbye,
but things will change as time rolls on,
but that's one thing you can't rely on,
don't matter whenever,
I'm gonna always stay true,
when this child of yours says I do love you,
no one above you,
forget them all yo,
we gonna have to devalue you,
you got the tangerine,
I got the grapefruit juice,
the Newport boost,
the bruise,
you know how we do.
Keep your head,
keep your head,
keep your head high,
oh sister,
keep your head high,
I don't wanna see you crying,
oh,
oh sister,
keep your head high,
it's so hard to say goodbye.
Yo,
John Doe was a good man,
but ain't nobody know him like me,
it's time to take it back
to the streets,
at the age of 14,
plenty of lust for cream,
stopped to see the old and
cash,
now he visualizing the scene,
maybe someday I could be in they place,
doing the
things that they doing,
mimicking in they ways,
soon 16 came along,
I keep on telling
my brother to please hold on,
don't let the ghetto open it's mouth and guide your mind
and please brother,
whatever you do,
guide your mind,
cause you are so divine and your
soul is such a size and please don't ever
doubt the prize that may blow your mind,
I,
I love the kids and the daily that die,
I hope that one day we fly,
amongst the birds
in the free world,
a piece of mind from a cruel world,
a ghetto girl,
mine in the lost
world.
Keep your head,
keep your head high,
oh brother,
keep your head high,
I don't wanna see you crying, oh,
oh brother,
keep your head high,
it's so hard to say goodbye.
She just out looking for fun,
trying to make a run,
didn't know that her reign is under
the sun,
baby need to slow it down for one,
stripping down in clubs,
popping dirt for doves,
I don't see how she look at herself at the end of the night,
how does she view herself
through the mirror from the light,
frequently crying for help but ain't nobody there,
I'm
here to tell her that everything that feels good ain't right,
like *** and smoking a pipe,
you're in the telly with two of the likes,
we copping your soul to the hype and it's
all in one life,
sometimes we rather deal with the
tripe than grow the hell up and find
a new life and deal with the price,
she rolled the dice one more time,
the sun didn't shine,
reign intertwined with dimes,
misery lies,
wonder why HIV took control of her life,
but
baby steady rolling the dice.