coryclendening
01/10/09, 09:59 PM
coryclendening@yahoo.com
This life of mine has been over since it started/
I never was gonna be able to fit in with this garbage/
I can't conform or respect authority figures/
Especially when the only person helping me is pouring me liquor/
I'm a nerd/… why do I gotta put my dukes up man?/
Blacks & mexicans hating like I'm part of the ku klux klan/
It's the ignorance/ that's why my dumb ass got put in jail/
Did the time & walked out w/ nothing but some wood and nails/
To build a new life not looking through the same observation/
To still prove I don't have it in me for any gang altercations/
To feel pain but still look at my child & make a funny face/
To never stop working until I get rid of this tummy ache/
To not end up being another bum living at his buddies place/
Rinsing my mouth out w/ salt water trying wash out the bloody taste/
Yeah I use to be the kid who would punch you & cause mass hysteria/
Picking fights with anyone in the lunch room cafeteria/
Smoking weed/… failing tests and ditching school/
Yeah man I use to think all of this shit was cool/
But then I saw the future/… knew I had to stand with my family/
Let go of the past & finally be the man that I have to be/
Focus on the real issues/… the big easy turned fema murder/
Raining down on people like Ike's hand across Tina Turner/
Or the jackass who's spent the past eight years in Washington DC/
Hiding in his white house with the lights out watching his TV/
Waiting for his life to end/ letting head aches turn into tooth aches/
How can he explain this to his wife and friends?/… red states turn into blue states/
Or what about the woman next door who sacrificed half her life/
To a husband who likes to smack his wife when she's not acting right/
Right eye is as black as night/… that's the price for this rich aspen life/
Next time/… instead of a pack of ice she grabs a knife/
Starts asking christ if it's ok for her to kill her husband/… and yes/
Two weeks later they find the husband in a field bludgeoned to death/
Now a days giving it your all just aint enough to make it/
We just blame all our problems on the invisible person taking up the blanket/
Or how blue February turned into a red March/
Took winter and threw it in a pile of bleeding dead hearts/
Maybe it's the blinding summers of red hiding under my bed/
With skies of thunder that bled nights of wonder and life from some of your heads/
Regardless/… my heart is all I got and I'm gonna keep it going/
I'm a target of the market/… eyes like angel wings/… leave em open/
Don't ever look back man/… and if you ever did/
Just think about me/… the greatest man who never lived/
This life of mine has been over since it started/
I never was gonna be able to fit in with this garbage/
I can't conform or respect authority figures/
Especially when the only person helping me is pouring me liquor/
I'm a nerd/… why do I gotta put my dukes up man?/
Blacks & mexicans hating like I'm part of the ku klux klan/
It's the ignorance/ that's why my dumb ass got put in jail/
Did the time & walked out w/ nothing but some wood and nails/
To build a new life not looking through the same observation/
To still prove I don't have it in me for any gang altercations/
To feel pain but still look at my child & make a funny face/
To never stop working until I get rid of this tummy ache/
To not end up being another bum living at his buddies place/
Rinsing my mouth out w/ salt water trying wash out the bloody taste/
Yeah I use to be the kid who would punch you & cause mass hysteria/
Picking fights with anyone in the lunch room cafeteria/
Smoking weed/… failing tests and ditching school/
Yeah man I use to think all of this shit was cool/
But then I saw the future/… knew I had to stand with my family/
Let go of the past & finally be the man that I have to be/
Focus on the real issues/… the big easy turned fema murder/
Raining down on people like Ike's hand across Tina Turner/
Or the jackass who's spent the past eight years in Washington DC/
Hiding in his white house with the lights out watching his TV/
Waiting for his life to end/ letting head aches turn into tooth aches/
How can he explain this to his wife and friends?/… red states turn into blue states/
Or what about the woman next door who sacrificed half her life/
To a husband who likes to smack his wife when she's not acting right/
Right eye is as black as night/… that's the price for this rich aspen life/
Next time/… instead of a pack of ice she grabs a knife/
Starts asking christ if it's ok for her to kill her husband/… and yes/
Two weeks later they find the husband in a field bludgeoned to death/
Now a days giving it your all just aint enough to make it/
We just blame all our problems on the invisible person taking up the blanket/
Or how blue February turned into a red March/
Took winter and threw it in a pile of bleeding dead hearts/
Maybe it's the blinding summers of red hiding under my bed/
With skies of thunder that bled nights of wonder and life from some of your heads/
Regardless/… my heart is all I got and I'm gonna keep it going/
I'm a target of the market/… eyes like angel wings/… leave em open/
Don't ever look back man/… and if you ever did/
Just think about me/… the greatest man who never lived/