This song provides commentary on the current climate people of color find themselves in, in the United States.
J'von describes the difficulty of living an inconsequential life as he notes the lack of attention brought to domestic homicide by news sources in America, and by mentioning that blood will...
[Verse]
I walk around with fire in my heart
It's uncomfortable/It's Sun-comfortable/It's son comfortable
The darkness is unbecoming too
I look at my demons like, "Damn I'm becoming you"
It's raining in July here, the summers are few
I know some are confused
If a spider killed me in Australia, boom CNN
But clap me in my home and it won't even come on the news
Right (Right)
What a comforting view for some it's cool
But the sum of it isn't comforting for you
What I'm saying is every hood is like a jungle too
All the poachers be coming through
And the famished mothers will eat they youngest too
And two-stepping in the wrong territory and then the hunts for you (Facts facts facts facts)
But I'm done with the pendulum
Thoughts and prayers only soothe the homies who sendin' them
But still pray for us, we need it
Pray for the fatherless
I think about my dad but can't recall all the time spent with him
And now we gettin' older, some of the homies are deadbeats
So now the baby moms distance him
Dissin' him and played it well
But the systems still stays a fail
He was jaded, couldn't tell
He had three baby moms and zero custody
I guess he loves intercourse but he hates himself
Complaining about women but wouldn't date his self
To each thesis his heart deep freezes his soul faded pale
Kids cry for him but these screeches/Screech's weren't saved by the bell
Fuck 'em (Basically)
I do a lot on my day-to-day and the memories still fade away
Can't be in a casket dressed like Agent J
And the Ray estates had made a way off the finest just like Casey Fray
Someone once told me that the grass was greener, Macy Gray
But all I see is niggas beefing at the Macy's Day Parade all day (At the Macy's day parade all day)
Had to stay away (Had to stay away)
Yeah
[Outro]
"The world you take out with is a way of avoiding something else. Many people do that. Perhaps most people do that
And faith is, for many people, a kind of hiding place in which you won't be heard, in which you won't have to think about yourself - but you want in."