Life Is

Sometimes I decide where I should be Sometimes life happens to be I always was the type of kid who thought that life was endless I won't age, forever young was my prediction School days was better ones, but my attendance Was a fail in society's eyes, cause I'm a menace I was taught to be like everyone else, but my attention Was hyperactive, the right of passage was my admission Into the streets without thinking, like I was senseless The first stop I made, was juvenile detention On my way to the top, no stop, no time to listen To people telling me to look out for what I was missing Self destruction, no structure, and a blinded vision Clouded judgment, cause drugs stayed inside my system Second stop I made was county jail and my conviction Was first degree burglary, my first strike offense I was stuck in that frame of mind, that's a mindless picture Cause two strikes, six years, all the time I spent in the penitentiary Wasn't ever my intention I always was the type of kid who thought that life was endless I won't age, forever young I always was the type of kid who thought that life was endless I won't age, forever young I always was the type of kid who thought that life was endless I won't age, forever young was my prediction And these days I have to live with my decisions Choices I made that got me kinda distant From my family members now when I can sense it But why would I care about any type of tension Between me and the ones in my bloodline and lineage Almost all of us have done time in prison But what makes them think that maybe I was different It's a war outside I couldn't spend life defenseless I was raised around all these trife conditions Where kids nowadays is carrying knives and pistols All because they're products of their environment Nobody took the time or ever tried to fix it Politicians and police trying to cop position Stagnate anyone who's of the opposition But revealing these truths is truly my commitment Why wouldn't it be To live forever young I always was the type of kid who thought that life was endless I won't age, forever young was my prediction I'm in the matrix but life isn't science fiction I found my purpose and learned why I am living Changed my destiny with rhymes that I have written Be in my children's life and give them guidance in it Let them know you only got one life to live in It's not endless so always stay optimistic I won't age, forever young I always was the type of kid who thought that life was endless I won't age, forever young I won't age, forever young I won't age, forever young