Second Chances

[Verse 1: Honors English] She, she, she wanna be a DJ girl CNN mind in a BET world To the mirror she said, you can be a celeb You can be the next Angie Martinez A friend of a friend heard that she was fresh Hired her on the set when she called in for request But if she can't sneak in songs wit meaning Not even on the weekend she up in fumes Can't play her own tunes darn it she's leavin' Its FM from AM to PM Turn the countdown louder She played D.O.A right after she played Power To get the talk of the town up Cause 6 days a week they only allow her Play the same 6 songs 6 times an hour Oh God her mixing's replaced with playlist From computers that's outdated Dear Station Thanks for tryin' to shackle her dreams But she got the blood of a slave the heart of a queen And even though she’ll lose her job and even knowing the risk She throw on a song she loved and it sounded like this…… [Hook: Karina Pasian] If you believe in second chances Life is not a promise Dreams are a mountain Think I'm going to struggle on 'til I'm on top now If I fail the first time Ill do it again now Second Chances, Second Chances [Verse 2: Honors English] He quit Dj’ing the top of his junior year Tired of playing them songs that’s popular on the air You can do better he used to say to the mirror You fresh, you can be next year's DJ Premier But one day the doc saw a growth on his throat Damn wish the cancer just stayed in horoscope Tears falling, pulse skipping, heart broke Music is the magician helped him fix them off notes Plan A uh work out 24 shifts Plan B uh see he ain't know how to quit Plan C, cut out everything counterfeit If that don’t work there's 23 more alphabets, live How would you feel, his Mamas preparing his every meal See Love is the Achilles whenever we need to heal And after 6 months its only a scar left He feeds his faith his fear starve to death Yep yep yea, he's at the height of his career Always 'member to leap and the net shall appear He overcame chemo, hero 20 milli sold grammy and if you ain't know That’s how he got the name Needlz [Hook] [Verse 3: Honors English] She, she, she gon' be a powerful girl Edison mind in a shock value world "The power's in you," she used to say to the mirror In 3 years you gon' be an electrical engineer While a freshman she’d homerun all the testing Grand slam the classes as if they tossed all Softball questions, it was perfection 'Til she passed the test that means that you pregnant Sick everyday she drops out she can't tell If she gon fail classes, she got to farewell Working for the Bank see mentally the imagery she tried to forget But the mirror has memories Years past, her son goes from pre-k, high school To gradual graduate from grad school She was there twice when he tossed the tassel Just the perfect lasso pulled her back to the classroom She grabs her Bachelors, Masters Learned life's a a never ending class 'til the last day you passes She went from dropping out to getting her 2 degrees She, she was my mother See her son none other then Honors E [Hook]