RecorDnition

Sometimes you gotta take a look outside yourself and recognize whats upon You (recordnition)
And thank god for your blessings cause not everyone has Those same blessings that you have
We all can't write the same story so be mindful of those who come from a Different book so look

If history repeats itself then here's some fossils and facts
No bi*ches in my hood F*uck you for a bottle of Jack
Turn Baby momma baby daughter asking mommy for snack
But mommy can't hear her tho that d-bo gave her a nap
The one with the longer dream where you don't never come back
This what baby girl think while niggas blow out her back
And little brother he a hustler he dun been jail and back
So bad his family don't react when he need bail to get back
Far as a real job without movin grams with a strap
Unrealistic with the list of felonies on his rap
Christmas time ain't no F*ucking jellybeans in a sack
They grippin iron wrinkle any n*gga holdin him back
Especially if he got a kid who beleves in his dad
A real wolf do anything to bring his family some scraps
They took my n*gga J Rod and they gave him 13 he 26 now
So half his life he going unseen
And he got a little girl who really gon be a queen for now a princess who Gotta grow up with no king
Growing up we do things from role models we seen
You catch a body hide the weapon or forever in greens
No directions just intersections filled with addicts and feens
So I ain't talking bout a tat when niggas shoot up a sleeve

Open your eyes recognize what you see
Thoughts in your mind swim around your in too deep
Can't rectify all the times they cheat you
But thats the life they designed you to lose
Dont end up blind

She had a dream that nobody else was seeing
Tried to paint it but nobody else could see it
No stable home she was always leaving
Always wondered why her parents had to leave her
Man her whole life was a tragedy
There was so many things she ain't have to see
Went to school nobody knew what she was battling
Scared to tell people what was really happening
Crying on the inside Smiling on the out
Tired of seeing different people strangers in the house
There was so many times she wanted to bounce
School was an escape for her foster care wasnt the place for her
Til one day man a woman intervened Showed the little girl that life ain't What it seem
And the crazy thing about it all that little girl was me
Said you a little flower started from the bottom
But that only means in time your gonna blossom

Open your eyes recognize what you see
Thoughts in your mind swim around your in too deep
Can't rectify all the times they cheat you
But thats the life they designed you to lose
Dont end up blind

Dont end up Blind
Don't end up Blind
Don't end up Blind