This can't be my life
Broke,
struggling in the streets I know one day I'm gonna shine
Like a star in the sky Like a star in the sky
Dear Lord,
I was born to be a star Raised in the projects even though my mom's
was at the bar Getting full of alcohol,
my pops locked up
on the yard But I'm so gifted,
I taught myself how to
draw Reading comic books, screaming Dear Lord
I know this can't be life Every night I'm eating beans and rice
My shoes holy and my jeans is tight I
sing the broke man blues but still you do
believe in Christ We go to church every Sunday
Me and my grandma she would say the
Lord would come and save us one day
But then it's back to the gun play In
the ghetto where the first and fifteen
is like your birthday Ayy,
cause that's the day we got paid
My mama was a crack head so it got blazed I
kept going to church but grandma got saved
And prayed for the day me and my family got paid
Amen
This can't be my life Broke,
struggling in the streets
I know one day I'm gonna shine Like a star in the sky
Like a star in the sky Mama,
why'd the other kids get to ride a bike?
I had to build a go-kart out of wood,
we was too broke I couldn't buy a bike
The front had roller skating wheels A string
to steer the back was big training wheels
And my seat was a milk crate My brake was my shoes,
that's why my heels scraped
Just hoping that my mama had a meal made But she smoked out,
I had to eat at my folks' house
Thank God for friends Cause if I didn't
have them I'd be eating out a garbage can
I put it all in the father's hands Cause when I'm starving man,
he let me eat
So it's part of the plan I just appreciate I got clothes
Even though they got holes We was in motels,
eating on the hot stoves
Being broke'll make you both berserk You think I'm lying,
I was crying when I wrote this verse
This can't be my life Broke,
struggling in the streets
I know one day I'm gonna shine Like a star in the sky
Daddy,
why you never go to work?
When they giving out butter and free cheese
The only time my mother go to church It's sad,
but my family was poor
Now we sleeping in the alley,
right in back of the store
Lord,
how can we get evicted on Section 8?
But mama was addicted, kept spinning with
them heavy weights My dad stayed locked up,
he was a pusher
So my only choices,
move with my grandma or my sister
Me and my little sister had different
fathers She couldn't move with my grandma,
so she moved with her father
Damn,
me and my sisters all separated And
my family spent the check on they self
I felt neglected,
hated,
and make a youngster wanna run away
And commit suicide,
a boy suicide,
told me put the gun away
It brought a tear to my eye,
the Lord let me survive
Cause I'ma shine like a star in the sky
This can't be my life Broke,
struggling in the streets
I know one day I'm gonna shine Like a star in the sky
Like a star in the sky