[Bridge]
Hard time
Hard time
Tired of seeing hard times
Tired of seeing hard times
Tired of seeing hard times
Tired of seeing hard times
[Hook]
Had one job it was part-time
Every night I pray cause of hard times
How my Mom smile through the hard times
Made the world think we was all fine
I just want something I can call mine
What I wouldn't do for a hard nine
I put it all on the hard grind, so my kids would never see hard times
[Verse 1]
How they gonna lead when they all blind
How I'm gonna believe when you're all lying
Why the poor gotta suffer when you're all fine
Why I had to get rich off of old crimes
I was in jail for a small time
Seen a n*gga get killed in the jain line
Phone line get took for call time
Selling dimes got me through them hard times
Wanna cry help, who the hell cares
She feeding five kids on welfare
Her son sell drugs, a lot to sell here
Only unpaid bills in the mail here
What about the little boy in the Crack spot, wanna cry cause his mamma on Crack Rock
Or the little girl that's thirteen, molested by her Dad who a Dope Fiend
[Hook]
[Verse 2]
I pray for them nights I was hungry
Laying in the cell, I was lonely
My Mom been coroner only
Slave to the system, cause they own me
What I wouldn't do for a rap check
Until then I'mma sleep with a black TEK
Our AC 'bout to make a stuck peck
They wanna break me, I ain't crack yet
I just wanna make it to the gold line
My n*ggas in the front like an old line
They saying black people pay no mind
A drug dealer turned into a gold mine
I did it from the arm, no co-sign
We talk homocide when it's gold time
My brother's in jain with no Mom, so I gotta make sure they all fine
[Hook]