Colorful Living

[Verse 1]
What is living colored?
Raised by my mother
Tell her that I love her
And that I appreciate

Everything she’s done
Put me through college
And even though she going broke
She made sure that gold AmEx in my wallet

Mama don't be touching that pension
Baby boy going on a mission
Auntie gotta go to intervention
Gotta go before your liver give in

Don't be looking in the bottle for the magic
Mama stop buying those lottery tickets
The rich get richer and
The poor pour liquor
That there is colorful living

I wish rich man was my dad
Money can't buy me happiness
But if poor is keeping us sad
I'd rather be down with a lot more cash

Therefore I dream of days when I ball out
Big house where roaches don't crawl out
Covering my mother’s eyes
Now open wide but don't fall out

As I mastermind the minds of masses
Pastor packing cash in baskets
Bashful bastards missing pappies
Chi and rocking ca'go khakis
Cocking gats express emotions
Through the killings
Feeling souless hopeless homeless
Therefore we only lay in caskets
Light the blunt and dust the ashes

I'm really not the kind to preach
I hated church since I was 10
That was when my daddy left
Neither he nor Jesus came back again

So who taught me to be a man
Who taught me to the fear of God
Who taught me to love again
My mama mama mama
I know that wasn't your job

Maybe I'm black and I'm beautiful
Maybe I'm not his reflection
Maybe he never learned how to love
Maybe he got an erection
I don't know if I should thank the lord
That papa forgot his protection
The curse of a colorful living
I'm hoping that I can deliver this message

[Outro]
You living (x6)
You living (x4)
Colored (x2)
You living (x4)
You live and you learn (x2)