Flawless - SA-ROC

My mommy told me that I was a shining star

A bright light sort of a beacon amidst the dark

She stood me in front of mirrors and made me look at myself — not at what they

said I was but what I truly are

I couldn’t see the beauty i just saw a jagged scar

A high yellow short nappy headed flower wall

I meant to say wall flower pardon the slip of the tongue

Bearing your soul has never been a gift of the young

So i remain alien never inside the margins

Navigating treacherous roads without a compass

Hard for ghetto children to survive the world concious

They fairy tales is filled with poisonous apples and monsters

We shrink so we wouldn’t be the next set of targets

And thats how a diamond dulls after starting flawless

Absolutely flawless

PIERCE DARK SHADOW PIERCE THROUGH SOLID ARMOUR

VOCAL STREETS SWEEP A BUCK SOUTH THROUGH THE SPEAKER

STEP INTO MY ZONE MAD RHYMES WILL STIFLE YA X2

As innocence fades we bitterly age

Our days of youth are sentimentally praised

To soothe our memories of abuse

We came through the barrage

Our skins a little harder

Our pride was wounded

Our hearts totally guarded

My generation X became the living martyrs

Dodging — bullets and police department sergeants

The same time we claiming our sovereignty from the fraudulent

Do wicked rich have blindfolds or see us clearly starving

Sometimes our souls get lost up in the bargain, can’t you see the problem?

But every soldier that’s still fighting for freedom inspires yet another child

to keep believing

That heroes exist with black skin and full lips and dreams can be reality if we

can just persist

The wall thinks the strong can prevail if we learn as we grow to just resist

VOCAL STREETS SWEEP A BUCK SOUTH THROUGH THE SPEAKER

STEP INTO MY ZONE MAD RHYMES WILL STIFLE YA X2

PIERCE DARK SHADOW PIERCE THROUGH SOLID ARMOUR

VOCAL STREETS SWEEP A BUCK SOUTH THROUGH THE SPEAKER

STEP INTO MY ZONE MAD RHYMES WILL STIFLE YA X2

The roads clearer now, the way is nearer now

I see the beauty looking back inside the mirror now

Her light shines without shame and a nap strong

Her small frame a powerhouse born a warrior

We black diamonds, never stop shining

Just so used to suffering we stopped even trying

As cycles shift and dark clouds are lifting

We ride through the storms, shields up, no slipping

We are wiser now, stakes are higher now

Knowledge leads to wisdom understanding locks the cipher down

Then we free our culture, refine our power base

Level the playing field, peep the god inside our face

Destroy our weakness build a nation from a higher place

Born again as shining stars beaming from the light of space

And that’s cipher

PIERCE DARK SHADOW PIERCE THROUGH SOLID ARMOUR

VOCAL STREETS SWEEP A BUCK SOUTH THROUGH THE SPEAKER

STEP INTO MY ZONE MAD RHYMES WILL STIFLE YA X2