Donnis, Colin Munroe - Lightning lyrics

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