Da Craft of Storytellin'

And I ain't ready sometimes And I ain't ready sometimes And I ain't ready sometimes When life happens to me And I ain't ready sometimes And I ain't ready sometimes And I ain't ready sometimes When life happens to me Picked up the pen and started jotting We all got problems Bad mans robbing Why they don't stop em They kill our heroes Do 'em like Malcolm X em out These streets like refs cause the techs be out Stress me out Bless me up I'm still 'live I pray Count my blessings like numbered days Sleep on me then slumber pays But I know in them summer days You won't last long You ain't last long (Yeah) Now your daughter's by herself Cause her mama's to the next man Who beats her, but she'll never ever dare correct him Or test him teaching lil girl to be afraid Now her thoughts been suicidal since she was in fifth grade Cause some dude said he hit when she hadn't even kissed yet You coulda been there to protect her but you missed that Had cuts on her wrist but they missed that For the world she had a gift but they missed that Sitting there in the closet with the rope around her neck She ain't know what to do The only thing that brought her peace was Going chasing after you And I ain't ready sometimes And I ain't ready sometimes And I ain't ready sometimes When life happens to me And I ain't ready sometimes And I ain't ready sometimes And I ain't ready sometimes When life happens to me