As Children Cry

This one right here This for all the young people All over the world Who are suffering As a result of our mistakes This for every child who needs love and stability For every boy and girl who needs a hug and it's killing me To see young people so torn and abrasive Being taught wrong no child is born racist Faced with peer pressure Poor education they're made to feel less So lets do more to save 'em They're behaving erratic based on needs and status They just wanna feel safe So they feed into habits Now they're smoking and drinking They're fucking and cutting They're depressed it's a mess But they're just hunting for something A way to feel good a safe place in the hood Nurture all their dreams Keep telling them they could Be whatever they choose Begin changing the rules They're our future Teach what they ?dont learn? in schools More than science and math Start providing a path To the youth its not your fault you were dying so fast! I see promise in our youth even more than they do Some are bothered by the truth like a form of abuse I keep warning them too, break the cycle and grow But the history of violence is frightfull and cold In the night they're alone, in the day they rebel Too many fights in the home, too many say they will fail Its a never ending battle for acceptance and love The pressure for respect and protection from us Man just look what we've done project war with our guns And at home we dont protect our own daughters and sons Neglecting the ones who have the answer to life The solutions to the problems we abandon at night I will stand for their rights cuz their lifes are cheated Continue to support them and fight for freedom Its a crisis in sequence from these selfish victims Their lifes are weakened by someone elses decisions Look at the suicide rate Look at what they decide Look at who was irate Look at drugs they subscribe They're manic, bipolar, the adhd Our maybe its the world and how we raise 'em to be Look what they see on TV They watching too much Mom and pops workin late cause the economy sucks Teenage girls locked up at a crucial rate Statistics show they where physically abused or raped How much more can they take before they snap and react? Hurt themselves and someone else another tragic attack We laugh at the past then we hope for the best But the past will just reflect the present knowing whats next We messed up, toxicated dirty water disease infected foods drug abuse life caught in the streets We're forcin our seeds to take more than they should So grown folk give em hope and make sure that they good