It seems the story never ends These cycles turn the hands of times eternal spin They telling we headed were we once began The pendulum it's swings to one extreme and then it's back again Trying to find a masterful position here Somewhere tween the joy and pain beneath the tears A young man with thoughts that's well beyond his years Born into poverty and war and forced to face his fears And still hear Searching for the answers in a broken land So many minds with pathologies Lack of helping hands Realizing no crutches come you must inner stand Sometimes with age comes no wisdom children as elder men In these days Searching for the light that never hid his face Dodging the grave or the prison his only saving grace Blessed with every daily bread we say our grace Or take a taste of the curses in all the we partake Had gratitude for jewels OG was tryna drop With good intentions gave guidance so we'd survived dark It's hard to be an angel in a hell storm The programs on the screens insure we were lead wrong The lies my teacher taught was all that they was told So in hell kitchen it's poison boiling on Satan's stove That mean they limit choices for the broken souls The pastor told me keep praying that's just way it goes They told me that's the way it goes In the land where ya friends become your future foes They told me that the way it goes Pray to God that ain't the way it goes They told that's the way it goes Never put it past a broad it's money over h*** They told me that the way it goes Well I guess that just the way it goes And who am I to question the lesson That's what the children thinking They said the doorway to freedom is thru the blunts and drinking They tell me that the actions speak the loudest and The deepest weakness lies breathing within the the loudest man They told me if love her I'm simp and succa But for new life to be given the children the need the mothers But f*** her, how it's that He stared and look confused It'll make sense when you older nigga stick to rules A people filled with broken hearts and open wounds Starving for love but the misery made the hate consume Just pray for em They know not what they do And no thou shall judge not Til ye walked in these shoes And every day our deaths is rising in the news And still so is are light I guess they see it too We'll see it through The victory we hold Chosen from the beginning And that's the way it goes They told me that's the way it goes In the land where ya friends become your future foes They told me that the way it goes Pray to God that ain't the way it goes They told that's the way it goes Never put it past a broad it's money over h*** They told me that the way it goes Well I guess that just the way it goes