Wisdom of Pain

[Verse 1]
Have you ever lost a friend in the wind?
Feeling all dead from within
You was like my evil twin, yo
We used to gamble in the back of the classroom
We was the class goons
But you always was moving so fast
Soon, show me all kinds of guns
Trade the black for the chrome one
And if I needed bullets, you would let me hold some
You was one of them niggas that show fear to no one
Having hope that change gon' come
Sometimes I wonder why the game so numb
When we kill each other, it's equivalent to a black man being hung
'Cause that's the plan for us niggas, we so dumb
But to me, my brothers are scholars
My brothers can build if we get the proper knowledge
I'm not talking 'bout that knowledge that you get from college
They got they hand in our wallet while my homies get demolished

[Chorus]
Why they got me struggling stuck in the game?
Why don't some things change?
And why I gotta go through so much pain?
I ask why do we all dream of this stupid thing called fame?
Why they got me struggling stuck in the game?
Why don't some things change?
And why I gotta go through so much pain?
I ask why do we all dream of this stupid thing called fame?

[Verse 2]
Yo, after you pass
Your mother was so strong she asked me why I was mad
It was hard to laugh
Out of respect of her I couldn't even be that sad
Straight up
Going too soon, I couldn't even see it
When I got the word I literally couldn't believe it
Crazy how events turn
Thinking, flicking my weed ashes
I let that bitch burn
I feel the weight of the world
That's why we rock chains and furs
Just to make us feel like somebody
Sometimes I feel like catching bodies
Why they take my nigga away?
But life goes on so we gon' be okay
But still I feel it shouldn't have to be this way
I'ma carry on tradition in a significant way
And kill anything that's tryna get in my way

[Chorus]
Why they got me struggling stuck in the game?
Why don't some things change?
And why I gotta go through so much pain?
I ask why do we all dream of this stupid thing called fame?
Why they got me struggling stuck in the game?
Why don't some things change?
And why I gotta go through so much pain?
I ask why do we all dream of this stupid thing called fame?