Black Rose

[Intro] In my garden in my garden To keep and care it you've got to water it To keep and care it you've got to water it [Hook] She ain't never seen Garden of Eden Only seen garden of bleeding And some are gonna lie and hate and make her feel like she's a heathen (x2) Black rose (x8) [Verse 1] Their roots dirty but their petals stay pretty Somebody tried to take the purity say they unworthy The black rose grows deep in the city streets But them stems still peak up under the concrete yeah Bleak is around looking life but them never seen a flower Grow under the moonlight Mama had me readin Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice I was looking for identity they stole mine twice So I turn to the rude boy gangsters first But the bad man withers and returns to the earth Now it's ashes to ashes dirt to dirt A black rose without a chance to grasp her worth [Hook] [Verse 2] Man the school system it fail us, and the government won't bail us Out of this hell we in man it seems they want to kill us There's blood pan di side walk blood pan di doors There's blood up on them ceilings why there's pan di floor No one to keep and care us our fathers too embarrassed To show us he's a failure so mama's a single parent Them children grow without the fertilizer that they needed And the black rose grows in a garden fulla weeds and needles and evil But God sent people who reflect the light of the sun they get it done The rose grows cold wind blows through the streets And the ice on the leaves so heavy she gets weak And there's not a helping hand upon the scene to be seen And when all seems lost the Gardener intervenes He handles her with care And he show her she a queen And then thorns are a defense mechanism she'll never need [Hook]