Makeup

Everybody wear make-up sometimes man

But you gotta walk outside,

and let that rain, just wash it off man

Look at what is around you man,

How people got it bad man, you know what I'm saying?

Say no more, I need music to get me by.

Simple beats, simple life, and a simple rhyme

Momma taught me to hustle for piece of mind

Never thought I'd get caught in this long line

For the truth, I don't worship a stone or shrine

Put my faith in the pen, now let me fly

Through the wind of the rhythm I hold tight

on the streets of Seattle, in cold nights.

Father give me the strength to continue

oversee all the prayers I send you

My heart's open to people who love back

Put my soul in a song, am I wrong for that?

Never was, some how I still catch flak

If agreeing, why they fight over white or black

Keep the vision of peace but I still shoot

I'm a rebel for reasons you won't prove

Just look at the sunshine

in the morning when you wake up

Go stand in the rain

and let it wash off all your make-up

Pick up a flower, la la la

Look at a rainbow

La la la, la la la

Even the lightning and the thunder

What we here for?

When this get to heavy to carry sometimes

I break down and just let it fall from my eye

Even though it still hurt when I get back up on my feet

to see that nobody's seen me cry

Waters waters, a Havel for pain.

Devil he came, and he walked in the skies.

But I throw it the opposite name

Reason I came, to open up your eyes

And whatever I say, know that I mean well

Every last word that I spitted

This is all I want to be

so to give you my all

I make sure it's in every sentence

This poet ain't fake, no

From the mouth of a fresh spree

hot beats so, from up under the dirt roads

and the concrete, from my people with no clothe

Just look at the sunshine

in the morning when you wake up.

Go stand in the rain

and let it wash off all your make-up.

Pick up a flower, la la la.

Look at a rainbow

La la la, la la la

Even the lightning and the thunder

What we here for?

So many times I thought of suicide

Giving up is the easiest way to die

Put my life in the barrel

and go to sleep

Never witness the birth of my own seed.

Never had the will power to graduate,

went to too many schools to keep an A.

Carry pipes in my bag,

smoking at lunch.

Away from reality all at once.

I saw momma outside on the porch crying

saying she can't pay the rent

but she really trying

Would I be embarrassed to get food stamps?

Daddy never came home from the school dance.

Ashamed of the way that I been feeling,

selfish enough to give up on living

When she made it this far

working at a bar,

with no where to turn but the sunshine..

Just look at the sunshine

in the morning when you wake up

Go stand in the rain,

and let it wash off all your make-up.

Pick up a flower, la la la.

Look at a rainbow

La la la, la la la.

Even the lightning and the thunder,

What we here for?