Promise Of A Better Tomorrow

Now of course I want peace on the streets, but realistically

Paintin' perfect pictures ain't never worked, my misery

Was so deep, couldn't sleep through all my pressures

In my quest for cash I learned fast, usin' violent measures

Memories of adolescent years, there was unity

But after ****rty, we brought war to our community

So many bodies droppin', it's gotta stop, I wanna help

But still I'm steppin', keep my weapon, must protect myself

The promise of a better tomorrow ain't never reached me

Plus my teachers was too petrified in class to teach me

Sippin' Thunderbird and grape Kool-Aid, callin' Earl

Since my stomach was empty it seduced me to **** the world

Watch my lil' homies lose they childhoods to guns

Nobody cries no more, ‘cause we all die for fun

So why you ask me if I want peace if you can't grant it?

Niggas fightin' across the whole planet

So it could never be peace

It seems drugs done turned this whole mother****ing hood out

All us niggas actin' up, wild-ass mother****ing adolescents

These niggas ain't even got no childhoods no more

How the **** can you have a childhood

And you at the funeral every mother****ing weekend?

Pssh, and you mother****ers talkin' about peace?

B***h, it ain't no mother****ing peace

You ain't seen the news mother****er? You ain't heard?

Somebody owes me. Will they control me? Not

I ain't a hater player, but I want all you got

Y'all babies had babies, now we fightin' each other

My dawgs got frabies, they bitin' each other

And it ain't hard to find a friend like mine

Bigfully is a mother****er and he don't mind dyin

And I gotta be blind, missed sign after sign

Time after time after time after time

And I don't like nobody, they don't like me more

And I'm good with that finally, but they heard it before

Dawg, we livin' in a prison, losin' our religion

On Thanksgivin' we thankful, just for livin' in Hell

Damn, homie, I don't mean to be harsh

But there's a devil in the ghetto tryin' to tear it apart

And if we make it up out, we still stuck in the dark

Will there ever be peace? Just a piece of my heart. Never!

The only peace we got is a piece of our heart, piece of our mind, or that damn piece that we hold in our waistline

You feel me, dawg? C'mon, uhh

Will there ever be peace, or are we all just, headed for doom?still consumed by the beast?

And I know there'll never be peace

That's why I keep my pistol when I walk the streets

Thangs is changin', nigga, you better read the signs

I'm only concerned about me and mine in these times

The world is a ghetto and peace is not a part of it

We all believe God's new plan to make it out of this

Niggas spendin' too much time hatin' on each other

Niggas buyin' guns, loadin' 'em up, aimin' at each other

And the victim is you and me, it's sick, but it's true indeed

The good die, mostly over bullshit, repeatedly

Deep in me there's a part that wants nothing but love

But the rest of me know, war is what's waitin' for us

So I stays ready, keep my pay heavy and boss up

Stack my funds and my guns, never rely on luck

Askin' God to point out the impostor

Never let no weapon formed against me prosper

‘Cause there'll never be peace, so don't rely on it, soldiers dyin' for it, and in the ghetto, they cryin' for it. But **** peace!

Lil' babies gettin' smoked, mother****ers killin' they whole family

Lil' kids gettin' thrown off buildings

Mother****ers gettin' abused

Peace? ****, is you out your ****ing mind?

**** peace! We can't never have peace 'til you mother****ers clean up this mess you made

'Til you ****ing clean up the dirt you dropped

'Til we get a piece, **** peace! Westside

Now of course I want peace on the streets...