this is my life

Open up your mind
Open up your eyes
Even when I'm gone
My message will not die

Open up your heart
Open up your soul
Here is a story
Let the truth be told


I have the weight of the world upon my shoulders
Getting harder each day, people only get colder
Mom's working two jobs for me, keeping food on the table
Dad's trying his best to at least be stable
In the back of my mind, I'm thinking my life is screwed up
It's only messed up, my head is fucked up
But I know I'm leading a good one compared to the other ones
Where life is lived in poverty, with drugs, drinks and other guns
Love is the only thing that keeps this world spinning round
But I see hate overtaking it, we're getting drowned


Open up your mind
Open up your eyes
Even when I'm gone
My message will not die

Open up your heart
Open up your soul
Here is a story
Let the truth be told


Kids running on the street, taking advice from street hoods
Who are roaming and loafting around up to no good
I've got fresh wounds and everlasting scars
As well as the people around me, but this life is ours
This life is hard, this life we live
It looks like drugs and guns is all we've got to give
But we've got to forgive and thrive, keep holding on
And keep holding, make sure the love's not all gone


Open up your mind
Open up your eyes
Even when I'm gone
My message will not die

Open up your heart
Open up your soul
Here is a story
Let the truth be told


- MDT.