kids, please stay in school dont be like me, a stone cold fool. i dropped out of school in the 9th grade. now today, i wish i would've stayed. you see i really thought i was cool after home room i'll leave school hanging with the crew smokin weed and drinkin wine man i thought my life was fine things, progress, it got worse. i lost my dream of becomin a nurse had to make me some money to get my ass back met this chick from the city i lived in everyday we'll get drunk off orange juice and gin this girl was a straight up dyke was cool as hell but she liked to fight. she told me one night that she just got raped asked me if i wanted to escape i said yeah and we jumped the gate got to greyhound that night really late a man she knew picked us up at the station took us to his house which was his plantation he gave me a hit off a happy stick so when he was drivin, i didnt pay attention to shit this man was really sick! he got young girls high so he could lick on our clit. he never wanted us to give him no head he'll just get off watchin us freak in his bed dope, weed, and drink to us he fed till one day they found my girl in the alley naked, dead! from that scene, that night i fled the events that happeded left unsaid with my life i carried on all the thoughts of school were gone..

The leaves brush the shadow on the ground beneath the redwood it cradles us covering entangled twisted twigs we are between the shadow and leaves of the redwood tree where the owl perch -- wings spread with respect and protectiveness the great redwood provide shelter from the falling rain that is caught between fire the twigs often bring surrounded by nature I cast my spell, "If you leave me behind you leave yourself and you leave me without myself" would be the echo heard caught between the leaves falling from the great redwood tree

He has the gospel in his eyes the dance in his thighs the jazz in his talk the soul in his walk this music that you make when you shake your tambourine can only be heard when your out on the scene black owned ghetto home travel baby let me watch you step into your godhood like a lion fearless WARRIORS