Z-Ro, Tanya Herron - Battlefield lyrics

Life is a battlefield

I pledge allegiance to the soldiers
The ones who had to leave they family
Overseas facing death everyday
Missing they family
Knowing that everybody that's going
Ain't coming back
My roll dog, took his last stand in Iraq
Watching his mama collapse
Cause she can't take the news
And it's sad to say
But a lot of mothers gon
Walk in Mrs johnson's shoes
So my condolences, goes out to the grieving
Lord give me the strength
So I can make it through this evening
What is this world coming to
Locking up brothers is a sport
Beat us till we bleed because we breathe
Still we lose in court
Mad at me because I'm black
Take it up with my maker
You can't question creativity of the life
Giver and taker
I guess, you gon have to deal with me
Why you wondering if I wanna rob you
Why not find a way to come and chill with me
I ain't nothing but people, I'm just like you
Nothing greater or nothing less
I'm just like you

We are one, shoulder to shoulder
We stand, no promises
No demands, all of us know it
Life is a battlefield

We're losing our souls, temptation takes hold
Why do we live, life this way
We must take control
Of our mind and our souls
Before the death, over face
Cause if we just surrender
And trust in our faith
We'll all come together
The world will be safe

I'm on a mission, to heal my people
Republicans ain't even trying to
Feel my people, we starving for real
Little babies dying of thirst
Plus they starving for meals
The main reason
Why these teenagers be robbing they peers
America, look at what it's come to
Sunday morning ain't no youngsters
In the church house
We running the streets acting a fool
Need to get some Jesus, in our life
That's the main reason
Why we be dealing with so much shife
Straight up kicking it with the devil
And we don't even know it
Crooked cops hate our guts
And everytime they get a chance
They gon show it my life is a battlefield
Cause I strive to survive daily busting
Trying to lay me in my grave before my time
I can take it, cause I dish it out
I love my people but I'm paranoid
Walk up on me my pistol I'ma whip it out
Can't trust nobody
From my friends to my kins
If I can get up and go get mine
You can get up and get your ends
It ain't hard, just man plot and strategize
If you focused on your goal
You just might reach it 'fore you die
So I'm focusing just like you
Cause I'm just like you
Nothing greater or nothing less
I'm just like you