What's this world coming to?
What have we done?
Poverty...
War...
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i see the stars so bright, so shiney
just see how they sparkle like diamonds
i see the stars so high, so amazing
just see how we reach high for them
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she sits there,
her mother with the bottle in the hand
the father with the drugs
Do they realize she is there or are they absent of her presence.
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i feel that i don't belong in my community
i feel isolated and judged
i feel like they think i don't exist
just because i am committed to someone of another race
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He was everything to me
My brother
My dad
My grandfather
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i can feel it,
so close,
yet so far
i can imagin it,
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Do you see what i see?
Do you see the way they stare at us?
Do you see the way they point? even
Do you see the way they talk like they think you aint listenin'?
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he said he loved me,
that i was his baby girl.
he said we would be together,
for better or worst.
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i have no more smiles
all the laughter has been taken out of me
i dont dance and sing like i used to
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