Too Young

Chorus]

I found out that I was too young, not grown

I was not ready for a world so cold

I was not prepared to make it on my own

I was not ready for what life unfolds

And it was too much too soon

I couldn't tell if what I thought was false or true

I didn't think about what I'm about to do

I messed up, this couldn't be real, this can't be true

[Verse 1: Hero]

I was too young but these my people so that's okay, though

I was down for anything, I would do it if they say so

Look at how they're cooking it up, I sit and watch their cake grow

Watching Robbie in the corner, he done snorting yeyo

And everybody acting cool like that right there's okay, though

So walk over to him and I'm like, Oh hey bro

What the fuck are you doing? Get away from the table

He's like, this ain't nothing but a bit of the yeyo

I got it covered plus I make the profit from sales

He's acting like he hadn't heard not one of them tales

They threw his brother, knocked him and they took him to jail

There go another, this hustler here is destined to fail

I think it but the last I heard he tried to appeal

And Eric, he gone, he wild and busting his steel off at the po-po

These are the trials and tribulations of kids trying to act like grown folks

[Chorus]

[Verse 2: Ill Bill]

I was too young to fall in love like Mötley Crüe

Too young, I pulled a gun and I shot this dude

It was over a girl, foolish pride, I was crucified

Just another youthful juvenile doing time

Forgive me, mama. I never meant for you to cry

Went to trial, I was sentenced to a two-to-five

Handcuffed back of the bus, forty of us

Life as a short shouldn't be so rough

And I ain't no punk here

You flinch your face and get your face fixed

Face lift, credit get cut up, you get your face ripped

Then bust your shit wide open and make you leak

You better chill out before I birthday cake your feet

Not a bad guy, I don't wanna catch mad time

So I chill with work release in the back of my mind

But the guy that I popped wasn't dead, he's locked up in here now too

And wants revenge, I got shanked in my bed

[Chorus]

[Verse 3: Slaine]

I was too young to say no, too young to yell no

Old enough to taste anger but not enough to smell hope

Thirteen years old, my beloved mother had just passed

I started puffing grass, drinking forties, cutting class

My father always used to beat on me and bust my ass repeatedly

I couldn't wait to get a change of scenery

I never had a dream, nobody believed in me

These mean streets are the only thing I seem to be

I'm sixteen being free, chewing vikes and percs

Caught an OC habit quick and my life got worse

Cause now I'm sick unless I get a pill

So my head is filled with deep schemes

My tolerance, I let it build

But when street dreams and quick cash is difficult

You find you get the same high cheap from sniffing dope

Now I'm shooting with the neighbourhood people

Nobody could save me from evil, I'm a slave to the needle

I'm too young

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