Real Hard Times

let me take you back to my childhood, were things were wild an aint so good, police always patroling the neighbourhood, doing what they thought they could, but nothing as changed, things are still the same, friends dying at an early age, families mourning an feeling rage, killers only getting 3 years, why a 16 year old boys mum still sheds tears, everyday she's confronting fears, an swears she can hear her boy whisper in her ears, 

guess we've all got bad things going on, hardest parts are when ya friends & families gone, dont think your the only one, some people go through hard times, an it plays an are minds, peace can become hard to find, in a world that seems so blind, to the facts of another ones life, how they cant sleep at night, thinking about why my friend got stabbed with a knife, an he was only 16, young man who never fufilled his dream, still hear his mother's scream, how her boy was took out of the community scene

an this is real life how i feel right now, how so many have gone above them clouds, looking down as we shout out so loud, wishing they was here to make us proud, but things happen so quick, 3 years for my mates life makes me sick, it gets me on an angry tip, to load up a clip, an shoot that cold hearted prick, but its just something we gotta live with, i just wish he was here he had so much to give, still merely a kid who never really got to live

.        Talk about hard times
.         Some cant get over it
.         Hard times still linger
.         Whole lifes been hard