Lightning

Don't look back 'cause we're all like lightning

Here today, then we're gone like lightning

Light up the sky and live for something

Everyone lives, only few become lightning

Don't look back 'cause we're all like lightning

Here today, then we're gone like lightning

Light up the sky and live for something

Everyone lives, only few become lightning

If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for it all, times is hard

These people is losing they jobs, my Homegirl Michelle out here

Losing her mom and nah, they ain't got a cure for cancer

Her little sister looking up to me for answers

All I can do is sit her down and read her the pamphlet

But what I'm supposed to say when her mama just vanish?

Gone in an instant, God, if you hear this, I need your assistance

I wanna be different but all they wanna hear about is drugs and pimp shit

Who gon' make a difference? I guess these niggas came with the wrong intentions

Manolo got fired, they ain't give him his pension

Eight years out in Couveya, he played his position

And now he serving things just to make him a living

We here on a mission and it starts in the mirror, Lord, can you hear my prayer?

When I say this, some people may start to hate me

Scared to get a government money to get a Haiti

Saw what they did with FEMA, scared to be a believer

Donnis no longer rapper, nah, now I'd rather be teacher

The day I saw my preacher in a Phantom with security guards

He said what up Don? I just gave him a nod

Do we need all these things to get closer to God?

Then my Auntie Taj bought us Gucci ties, see, where she reside is where dreams die

And they don't resurrect, they live in them projects

And them government projects don't help 'em the way you think

Sometimes I just think that they just want us to lose

I see how we depicted on the six o'clock news

They feed us drugs and booze until we dazed and confused

Damn, I refuse to become another statistic to get caught in the system