Little ones listen, learn from me, see, you could be the bestBut sit in your room depressed and you'll never progressMy sister Dee-Dee was born mentally retardedShe was a beautiful woman at 26, but now she's dearly departedThis May Tenth she suffered from a heart attackThe depletion of oxygen in the head left her in a coma braindeadHer internal organs was failing, her body no longer releasing excreationsMy parents wouldn't pull the plug cause she was still breathingBlack, white, let's unite us, never divide usX-Clan, Professor X died from spinal meningitisSo many like us are in Riker's suffering, struggling, slummingA few years ago you was sucking your thumbAnd now you're busting your gunAnd dumbing, an innocent man is doneAnd enough of your bluffing, your thuggingAnd enough of the ruckus running, the roughest is comingIt's a miracle just being bornLearn to enjoy life, it ain't that longSing the words to my song, come onWake up, don't crySo sad insideI still get through the dayI'm gonna make it anywayWanna give up, feel like hidingYeah, I get down, but keep fightingI still get through the dayI'm gonna make it anywayAway, awayI still get through the dayI'm gonna make it anywayLiving ain't a breeze, please, life's full of tragediesWe see our friends die, some get murdered, some die by diseaseGot your finger on the trigger, don't do itContemplating suicide, just put the gun down, we've all been through itAn infant in his crib sprayed by straight bullets and diesHe was a future genius, he would have won a Pulitzer prizeThe racist cop shot an innocent blackAn 8-year old prostitue hoing getting mommy money for crackA little boy molested by his step-father, hopelessThe little boy grew up now, he's molesting his own kidsThe government watching you from a satellite like you ain't had it rightYour best friend snitching on you, that's animal-likeIt's horrible watching your loved ones die and having to bury themTo seeing my cousin found dead, she overdosed shooting heroinMy family dying from sickening disordersWe found my brother MaxxHe was blue and purple and he was stiff with rigamortisMy father got spots on his lungs, they think it's cancerI'm praying every night, even if God don't ever answerWe can do it together, women hold your mansMen hold your women, everybody let's hold hands and singWake up, don't crySo sad insideI still get through the dayI'm gonna make it anywayWanna give up, feel like hidingYeah, I get down, but keep fightingI still get through the dayI'm gonna make it anywayAway, awayI still get through the dayI'm gonna make it anyway
