Keep Movin’ (Rebuilt)

[Chorus]
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'

[Verse 1]
I don't rush rhymes, I count down the minutes my hands took
Pushin' pens, perfectin' rap hooks
My rap books, inspired by the spirit of Sam Cooke
I know it's God's plan so I don't act shook
What's that mean? It means that I can't be booked
By an A&R tellin' me I can't be raw
Forced to rhyme about a gold chain that hang to the floor
I plan to see more than all of my fam's seen before
I move forward, mom's told me that she'd do it with style
And travel the world if she never had a child
And I had to smile and thank God that she did her thing
As a caged bird given the gift to sing
And a day that she hoped would bring
A chance for one of her babies to grow up and spread those wings
'Cause, nowadays, most broads can't hold their own
Too dependent on a man and can't be alone
The bedroom's the only place they're used to being grown
So every month, they got a different dude all up in they home
Layin' up, watchin' TV, answerin' the phone
Cookin' crack, smokin' weed, cleanin' out his chrome
He tryin' to get money, she just a part of the plan
A spot to lay low, but she thinks she got her a man
Ain't nothin' worse than a single mother's despair
Hungry and scared, kids wishin' pops was there
Every day it gets harder to bear
She wonders if her kids would be better off in foster care
But she holds on, she's so strong, knowin' life goes on
And gains strength from an old song played on the radio

[Chorus]
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'

[Verse 2]
Back to reality, another gun shot, another casualty
Down the block, crime scene surrounded by cops
Apathetic, while the people stand around and watch
She's in the window, wishin' that the violence would stop
I'm on my way home from work, gettin' off of the bus
Saw the ambulance, figured that somebody got touched
But I'm happy that it ain't nobody I love
A fallen soldier in a street war that died over drugs
It gotta be bad karma
'Cause last time I saw him, he was alive
Standin' on the very same corner
Out to take what the streets had to offer
Chest pokin' out as if he had body armor
I guess not, when it gets hot, you can get got
And get left without your life in the same spot
It's ill, could you imagine how it would feel
To be dead and not even know you just got killed?
Just a spirit wondering if it's real
Lookin' down at your own bloody body while it lies there still
It's time to build

[Chorus]
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'
Keep movin', keep movin'