Joan - Hayes Bradley

Just another victim of the... victim of the ghetto Just Another victim, that's how it goes, ooh Heavy foot traffic jam the hallway all day Adolescence working for small pay World so little he could never leave his block His home bullet riddled so he always need his Glock He coast with his eye open, keep his metal smoking Young wasted minds fiending on dimes, coking Forgot kids quick to break rules and known to make fools Out of many, down the streets we more safe than school There's no diploma that can break you from the coma Of a bloody war in the country, the youth hungry On the corner hyenas amongst me Yapping about the stories they be hearing, always swearing Can't even spell the shit that he be wearing Caught up in the silk web of material Superficial stains ya brain tissue, that's the issue The young is lost at their own cost, dreaming Screaming how we never hold positions, that's the meaning Mothers of murder victims share the same grief The elderly shake their head in disbelief And no relief came till I aimed And blast one shot and left my name... the GZA Just another victim of the... victim of the ghetto Just Another victim, that's how it goes, ooh My residence is a city where army veterans smoke rocks On torn down blocks, drug spots set up their shops And cops watch innocent niggas roaming flocks Romanism in tops, papers and knots Churches and liquor stores on every corner plot To get money knots some funny niggas act like They could pop Glocks and those who can't cop Sisters giving up ass a lot, brothers giving up cash a lot Babies struggling to become someone because their parent's not Just another victim of the ghetto, where lost minds settle When the devils uncivil society and die free With double 'W' followed by J-D around the necks and wrists The God is now a dog, the Earth is called a bitch And all my people wish to get rich in this wilderness to push a Lexus Ice on everything from rings and bracelets to the necklaces Children molested within these pest infested buildings Seeds uneducated in these schools, paint on the ceilings Is peeling off, but all I see is lost black babies calling "Please somebody save me, please somebody save me" Just another victim of the... victim of the ghetto Just Another victim, that's how it goes, ooh Just another victim of the... victim of the ghetto Just Another victim, that's how it goes, ooh Just another... just another... victim of the ghetto

Here comes Dick He's wearing a skirt Here comes Jane You know she's sporting a chain Same hair revolution Same build evolution Tomorrow who's gonna fuss And they love each other so Androgynous Closer than you know Love each other so Androgynous Well now don't get him wrong And don't get him mad He might be a father But he sure ain't a dad And she don't need Advice that they send to her She's happy with the way she looks She's happy with her gender And they love each other so Androgynous Closer than you know Love each other so Androgynous Hey, mirror image, see no damage See no evil at all Cupie dolls and urine stalls Will be laughed at the way You're laughed at now Now something meets boy And something meets girl They both are the same They're overjoyed in this world Same hair revolution, unisex, evolution Tomorrow who's gonna fuss And tomorrow Dick is wearing pants Tomorrow Jane's wearing a dress Future outcasts and a they don't last Now today the people dress the way that they please The way they tried to do in the last centuries And they love each other so Androgynous Closer than you know Love each other so Androgynous Androgynous Hey, don't you get it Well, androgynous Androgynous

Came into my life Made me think that I Was really something Took me by surprise Someone with your charm Looking my way Am I in heaven Am I in heaven Am I in heaven Have I gone up Have I gone up To the big cloud Number nine Hey you Brought me out of my shell I don't know why you care But you do it well Started a dream Dreaming made me see Oh babe You're so right for me And I wanna be the sunshine when you're down And I wanna be the apple of your eye And I wanna be the one you run to Cause I found the perfect someone Who can take me in their arms and love me I found the perfect someone Who could take me in their arms and love me Started a dream Dreaming made me see Oh babe You're so right for me And I wanna be the sunshine when you're down And I wanna be the apple of your eye And I wanna be the one you run to Day and night Came into my life Made me think that I Was really something Took me by surprise Someone with your charm Looking my way Am I in heaven Am I in heaven Am I in heaven Have I gone up Have I gone up Have I gone up To the big cloud Number nine And I wanna be the sunshine when you're down And I wanna be the apple of your eye And I wanna be the one you run to Day and night I wanna be the sunshine when you're down And I wanna be the apple of your eye And I wanna be the one you run to Day and night

You've lived your life And how you survived I'll never know People talk of hardships What do they know What do they know Of the strength you had to show To stop yourself from crying out To keep you head above the sand Those times when you were in dispair When trouble seemed your only friend Somehow you kept your spirits high You told him straight don't call again Now there were times When it seemed I didn't care Don't misjdge my silence You had my sympathy I had sympathy And I admired how you Stopped yourself from crying Kept your head above the sand When trouble seemed your only friend Somehow you kept your spirits high You told him straight Don't call again And now the future's looking bright You fought alone and won the fight Kept your faith When times were hard you made it through Trouble seemed your only friend Somehow you kept your spirits high You stopped yourself from crying out You kept your head above the sand Those times when you were in despair Trouble seemed your only friend Somehow you kept your spirits high You told him straight Don't call again

Black eyes open wide It's time to testify There's no room for lies And everyone's waiting for you And I'm gone, sitting by the phone And I'm all alone by the wayside And I'm gone, sitting by the phone And I'm all alone by the wayside By the wayside I'm by the wayside I'm by the wayside Too far gone and I'm by the phone And I'm all alone and I'm off for love By the wayside By the wayside I'm by the wayside I'm by the wayside I'm by the wayside I'm by the wayside By the wayside I'm by the wayside I'm by the wayside I'm by the wayside Black eyes open wide It's time to testify There's no room for life And everyone's waiting for you Everyone looking at you Everyone looking at you Everyone looking for you Everyone looking for you

Do you ever just wake up in the morning ignore the mirror as you're walking on by Walking on by Do you ever just feel like you constantly fighting with the demons in your mind In your mind I'm so lost, there's so many distractions I just need somebody to hold Every bridge that cross keeps on burning I just need somebody to know That I'm so lost, in my mind And I'm so lost, and it's making me blind Do you ever just wake up in the morning feel like crying tryna hold back your tears Hold back your tears Do you ever just feel like you're drowning, screaming, shouting but nobody can hear Nobody can hear I'm so lost, there's so many distractions I just need somebody to hold Every bridge that cross keeps on burning I just need somebody to know That I'm so lost, in my mind And I'm so lost, and it's making me blind It's alright, not to be alright We get a little lost, a little lost sometime It's alright, not to be alright We get a little lost, a little lost sometime That I'm so lost, in my mind And I'm so lost, and it's making me blind Oh, I'm so lost