Dead prez - Window to My Soul lyrics

My big brother revolutionary love
You know your lil brother love you, dawg
You know your sister love you, dawg
You know your mama love you, dawg
We riding right here with you dawg
Be strong man keep pushing forward look here

You're my brother and I love you
And I wrote this for ya
If I could change anything
It's what that dope did to ya
Coming up, I looked up to being just like you
Same crease in my khakis tried
To dress like you
You getting swole lifting weights
Stocking caps with waves
I'm trying to see the world how you see it
Wearing you shades
You and pops never really got along
Who was right or wrong
15 years old kicked out all
Alone in this cold world
And I can only imagine what
You was going through
Cause, I was so young when it happened
Mama cried like a baby that day
She never blamed you, it was painful
Cause she knew the streets was
Waiting to claim you over time
We could see the hardness in your face
Wanted to help
But couldn't find the words to say
I guess I went into denial
Hoping for the very best
Stopped believing in they God cause
What God would allow this?
Not in my wildest nightmares
Nothing compares
To see my brother be a crack
Fiend for all these years
Tried to send you inspiration when you
Was locked in the pen
But soon as you came home you
Right back on that shit again
And mama say she don't feel
Safe with you home
She got to hide money and lock
Her room door when she gone
We still love you but until
You find strength in yourself
And the will power to open
Up and accept our help
What can we do? I can't
Let you terrorize mom dukes
We feeling like we just gone
Have to turn you loose
They say in war there's
No victory without causalities
But when it hit's your family
That's when you really see
Like a window to my soul
You can see the pain in my life
Got to make a change in my life
(it's a struggle every day)
And it's not impossible to make
A change in my life
(gotta keep pushing forward)
I can make a change in my life, I know
(ain't no other way)

I know it's hard coming home
To the same old shit
Ain't nothing changed cause the
Game don't quit
The pain inside is still throbbing
The same conditions that first created
The drug problems still exist
And it's a bitch
Got to go to the job or starve
Without a gun every day employees get robbed
And on days off
We blow off them crumbs like nothing
Getting high cause a nigga
Gotta get into something
But we get trapped in a
Cycle of pain and addiction
And lose the motivation to
Change the condition
I blame it on the system
But the problem is ours
It's not a question of religion
It's a question of power
How did black life, my life, end up so hard?
Why do so much injustice go unresolved?
Why the ones we call governments
Be the main causes
Behind why all the dope is
Coming through the borders
Television reporters got the facts distorted
Making scapegoats of every black
Youth on the corner
It's a war even though they
Don't call it a war
It's chemical war unleashed on the
Black and the poor
And who benefit? the police, lawyers
And judges the private owned prison industry
With federal budgets
All them products in the commissary
Tell me who profit's
It's obvious and it's going too good
For them to stop it
In my mind, my body, and my soul
I need a change in my life
We need a change in our lives, you know
And it's not impossible to make
A change in our lives
We can take the pain from our lives, fa sho

We don't own no boats
We don't own no planes to bring no dope
We don't make no cellophane
(bags to bag it up)
We just caught up in the game don't you know

Don't you know it's bigger than this shit
I know you know i know
What's in your heart dawg
I love you til the end of
Time and again and again
I'mma be your brother, your comrade
And your friend til we win and even then