"The Crowded Streets Of Loneliness"
Just a simple visit to the same places
Almost the same as last time
Recognizing familiar faces
But them not giving you the time
Ironically, it seems the same way
Every 'go-again' that comes around
But it’s not, it’s a different day
And time for me to glance around
And then I found...
The crowded streets, they are here
The crowded streets, I cannot hear
The crowded streets, I shall not fear
The crowded streets, an alley is near
...Of loneliness
Walk up to them and say hi
They simply glare and walk by
You ask yourself if you’re invisible
One nation under God, indivisible
You pledge it every morning
But do you feel the unity?
Can you hear the warning?
That’s the sound of a community
Burying the hatchet of racism
And killing off the dead sheep of the prejudiced
Secretly aware of the pain locked away
But only because someone told you a biased
Opinionated appointment of every ruling
Ever abolished to be brought back
The reason is that there are those fooling
Around with the system thanks to the 9/11 attacks
And you really don’t understand
The reason behind anything
That isn’t cookie-cutter or shaped from a pan
The pan of awareness to 'bling bling'
Still you feel even more ignored each time
You sit down and take a load off your mind
Well, get used to it, is all I have to say
Since it’s not measured in your achievements, but your pay
Cracking away at my personality
Are your verbal attacks, whining
And entering my brain’s locality
Then quickly throwing out the importance undermining
The other authoritative officer
Also known as the Gustapo of the two-double zero’s
Just kidding, but we do have locker
Combos we need to memorize like heroes
We’ll all make it the way we should
Not saying YOU will, nor will I, but I could
Just tempt me to go and settle a bet
Then it’ll be your money that you’ll forget
I once had a cousin whom had cancer
No wonder it took so long for you to answer
Very funny, eh? Ya heartless b****es
In his mind, it was the only way to fit in with the riches
Smoking cigarettes was the coolest thing to date
If only I could have told him, I could’ve saved
Basically his whole life, but I was too worried
Looking ahead to the future for my own self
It just wasn’t one of my priorities
Errick is a self-centered jerk, anyone else?
