Misunderstood

I be sitting reminiscing on time gone
Wish I could go and right all my wrongs
But it's gone, And we moved on
You live and you learn, but some still wanna do wrong
I let them do them, I hope you let me be wrong
When I make mistakes, I talk about them in songs
Used to ride around like it's all good
Under the street lights, misunderstood

Remember every time someone fired up a grill
You could smell it in the air, that's when summer got real
That's when summer had a feel, you let go of struggles
Eating good food and laughing with the people that love you
Now they hate and disrespect, look how we look at each other
I see you stand a little taller when you know that they suffer
We love our enemies but hate our families that be there
Treat them like strangers and then complain when they don't really care
I can say I struggle with it, I need to see y'all more often
Don't wanna see wasted opportunities laid in a coffin
We get consumed with life and worry about pleasing our bosses
That we really don't take the time to even deal with our losses
You can't get these monuments back
And you can't get these moments back
So cherish them you'll never get them back
Life, it got me thinking, what am I doing
There's enough rappers, I need to do better no confusion
I wanna say something to my kids kids in the future
Everything's going to be OK, keep going and keep pushing
Cuz my father had to live through segregation and Jim Crow
And we living through James Crow Esquire
Martin Luther King, everything he did, backfired
My mother lived in DC down the street from the riots
Don't ever let them silence you don't let them make you be quiet
Cuz you may be misunderstood, but just keep riding
Under the street lights