A Child Is Born

    Intro/Chorus:
    A child is born with no state of mind
    Blind to the ways of mankind
    God is smiling on you and He's frowning too
    Because only God knows what you'll go through, uhh
    A child is born with no state of mind
    Blind to the ways of mankind
    God is smiling but He's frowning too
    Verse 1:
    He grew up in an instant, the fourth of seven children
    The oldest male on the block was half and half
    brown, stones to neck bones, crack joints 1 to tones
    Where young girls spread out and drop seeds like they're farmers
    They're old as their momma's, the same age as their aunt
    and the neighbourhood drunk men and that lady with the dreaded 2 disease
    is like hard to please
    And the house of ill fate with the metal gate
    kepp the thin people cracked out like *?puncheon?* monks 3
    The ole man with the fruit stand is on his man
    His hand, his ole heart just can't stand
    the CPR as they load him in the back of a car
    I'm on a world tour to help free the poor
    From the local drug cats to kids in front of the store
    Number runners, gangbangers and the big money spenders
    Reality check rings as we descend 4 from the king
    Chorus:
    Now a child is born with no state of mind
    Blind to the ways of mankind
    God is smiling on you and He's frowning too
    Because only God knows what you'll go through
    A child is born with no state of mind
    Blind to the ways of mankind
    God is smiling but He's frowning too
    Because only God knows....
    Verse 2:
    The home's filled with horror in my horoscope
    Tomorrow I could be broke, this ain't a joke
    I'm twenty dollars from bein dead ass 5
    I'm bout 6 to spend half on a bag to get my head blast
    Last week I lost to justice cycle, born
    and spawned 7 a riff with my wiz
    now she dead with my kids
    I live by the subway, niggas push drugs in my hallway
    All day everyday tryin to get the pay
    And I be tryin ta find a better way
    You see, when you're poor then you're forced to adore to raw play
    Survival be a forte 8, lookin forward to robble up your food stamps
    Projects' like boot camps
    wit generals cookin chemical warfare 9
    Ki's to a mayor, I ain't seen ya ass in four years
    The law bears down on anybody that's brown
    My complexion 10 puts me in the direction of the section 8
    Rejection seems to be my fate
    As a kid, don't wanna ship my momma, always said I had to wait
    And it's been drama up to date
    Enough to traumatise people's lives and the eyes they try to fixtate
    Chorus:
    A child is born with no state of mind
    Blind to the ways of mankind
    God is smiling on you but He's frowning too
    Because only God knows what you'll go through
    A child is born with no state of mind
    Blind to the ways of mankind
    God is smiling but He's frowning too
    Because...
    Verse 3:
    Born into existance with some resistance
    A struggle comin out my ol' earth's womb
    It was little past noon, three months before June
    I had a feelin I was headed toward the land of doom
    I came out and the doctor got ready to smack
    I grabbed the 'bilical cord and tried to pull myself back
    but it was too late for that cos in fact
    I'll slit the sack so I gotta maintain where I'm at
    Now I'm here breathin this diff'rent kind of air
    Poverty bound, headed for the welfare
    Drug-infested, rat-infested, people drownin in sorrow at neighbourhood bars
    Roaches bigger than my hot wheel cars
    Dope fiends with swollen arms lookin like rotten wood
    turn to crack monsters up and down the neighbourhood
    Lit the store, business soar as the crowd pour
    all thru the corridors, echo-in off the project walls
    That's why the God say
    Chorus:
    A child is born with no state of mind
    Blind to the ways of mankind
    God is smiling on you but He's frowning too
    Because only God knows what you'll go through
    *repeat*