Why?

Yeah Can you tell me WHY Can you tell me WHY Why there’s so much violence Why there’s never a night that goes by without a siren No one even cares, our communities are dying The young don’t have a choice, cause their fathers have deprived them Why is it that guns are now called best friends And drugs are the only method to make real ends What happened to the jobs, we barely make a cent Our taxes are too high, we can’t even pay the rent This doesn’t make sense Why is so many struggling While others be sitting at home, watching their bank account bubbling Your friends got I made, you don’t, so they make fun of it They push until you rage, and you say that’s enough with it When is this gonna end, all the discrimination The color of our skin is not what revives nations We must first begin with society’s relation To be reunified with divine liberation Can you tell me WHY Can you tell me WHY Can you tell me WHY Man, can you tell me WHY Can you tell me WHY So many young are taking their lives Pressure by bullies at school, you can see pain in their eyes How could we expect them to survive when almost every night they’re taken advantage of by those who supposed to care, right Dang, how can men treat women so bad They disrespect and abuse them, but then they go back Say whatever it takes just to get them to come back But once they hear them I’m Pregnant words, they fall back And leave them stuck raising kids on their own Don’t even have the funds to buy them new clothes Cabinets have no food, PG&E turned off Water is so cold, and dad ain’t concerned at all, Man What can we do to change this Be responsible for every action we’re taking Rise up all my men, no more flaking It’s time for us to stand and leave no room for replacements Can you tell me WHY Can you tell me WHY Can you tell me WHY Man, can you tell me WHY Can you tell me WHY