Lost bullets find their way to little hearts Big dreams of classes and all their parts Shots fired, little lungs run out of air They'll be good if they survive, they swear Their school bleeds from all corners Each week they welcome new mourners Stray bullets, shots fired, the war on drugs Little dreamers between cops and thugs Corpses that never got to grow full size Too much pigment for politicians to empathize Their education lost to the drug trade Their lives lost to bullets that strayed Battles on the news between vain fixes Ignored by those worshiping crucifixes The day life stopped in the shanty town Days, weeks, months, it comes back around Build walls here to keep them out Little girls sold there to the local talent scout The bricks are designed to keep you in Freedom up to the choice of your guillotine Those bellow gave up hope long ago Those above maintain the status quo This year he had single digit geography lessons But he can name tons of vicious weapons Conditioned to find life a normality With the constant threat of senseless brutality Born to brown parents with empty pockets 1% indifferent as living-cost skyrockets Legal pharmaceuticals profiting from the sick Those trying to decriminalize seen as lunatics Exclusion begins with a lack of arithmetic Inclusion is stalled by insidious politics They stare at the same sky but their roofs are different Watch them die on a new t.v., their suffering insignificant Favelas periodically suffer a disease outbreak Not enough think about which side to take The day life stopped in the shanty town Days, weeks, months, it comes back around Build walls here to keep them out Little girls sold there to the local talent scout The bricks are designed to keep you in Freedom up to the choice of your guillotine Those bellow gave up hope long ago Those above maintain the status quo