Way It Goes

It seems the story never ends
These cycles turn the hands of times eternal spin
They telling we headed were we once began
The pendulum it's swings to one extreme and then it's back again

Trying to find a masterful position here
Somewhere tween the joy and pain beneath the tears
A young man with thoughts that's well beyond his years
Born into poverty and war and forced to face his fears
And still hear

Searching for the answers in a broken land
So many minds with pathologies
Lack of helping hands
Realizing no crutches come you must inner stand
Sometimes with age comes no wisdom children as elder men
In these days

Searching for the light that never hid his face
Dodging the grave or the prison his only saving grace
Blessed with every daily bread we say our grace
Or take a taste of the curses in all the we partake

Had gratitude for jewels OG was tryna drop
With good intentions gave guidance so we'd survived dark
It's hard to be an angel in a hell storm
The programs on the screens insure we were lead wrong

The lies my teacher taught was all that they was told
So in hell kitchen it's poison boiling on Satan's stove
That mean they limit choices for the broken souls
The pastor told me keep praying that's just way it goes

They told me that's the way it goes
In the land where ya friends become your future foes
They told me that the way it goes
Pray to God that ain't the way it goes

They told that's the way it goes
Never put it past a broad it's money over h***
They told me that the way it goes
Well I guess that just the way it goes

And who am I to question the lesson
That's what the children thinking
They said the doorway to freedom is thru the blunts and drinking
They tell me that the actions speak the loudest and
The deepest weakness lies breathing within the the loudest man

They told me if love her I'm simp and succa
But for new life to be given the children the need the mothers
But f*** her, how it's that
He stared and look confused
It'll make sense when you older nigga stick to rules

A people filled with broken hearts and open wounds
Starving for love but the misery made the hate consume
Just pray for em
They know not what they do
And no thou shall judge not
Til ye walked in these shoes

And every day our deaths is rising in the news
And still so is are light
I guess they see it too
We'll see it through
The victory we hold
Chosen from the beginning
And that's the way it goes

They told me that's the way it goes
In the land where ya friends become your future foes
They told me that the way it goes
Pray to God that ain't the way it goes

They told that's the way it goes
Never put it past a broad it's money over h***
They told me that the way it goes
Well I guess that just the way it goes