Aris Sparks - Warm Clouds lyrics

[Hook] Blue ocean, clear skies Warm clouds no sunrise Blue ocean, clear skies Warm clouds no sunrise Blue ocean, clear skies Warm clouds no sunrise Warm clouds no sunrise Warm clouds no sun... [Verse 1: I.N.X] Warm clouds no sunrise This here were i reside Empty chambers and dry eyes Aging backwards, time dies Born in the dirt, and die in the crevice Don't fight da flow of ya life is da lesson Sippin on something to keep me in check Social norms'll make you wild for respect But will you die for respect... f** it i will digress Cuz you n***as can't see how the powers that be Teach you to be oppressed But its not all ya fault cuz da resources given are broken at best So the culture of poverty's perpetuated to paint us as less Blue ocean, clear skies Warm clouds no sunrise But da health of the planet just keep gettin worst The pollution of man i so despise Brown ocean, grey skies No clouds, sun dies Tell me if dis is da future of us I see why in heaven dat God cries... God cries, tears from heaven's eyes... Now jus let da beat ride Now just let da beat ride God cries, tears from heaven's eyes... Now just let da beat ride Now just let da beat ride [Hook] Blue ocean, clear skies Warm clouds no sunrise Blue ocean, clear skies Warm clouds no sunrise Blue ocean, clear skies Warm clouds no sunrise Warm clouds no sunrise Warm clouds no sun... [Verse 2: Aris Sparks] Take two shots for the dearly departed The city made me lion hearted But let me take it back to where it all first started Way back when I told my mother we'd be top charted Working mad doubles just to make the ends meet Did the ends meet? (nah) Nah but maybe next week Many nights I wonder why my mother ain't eat Watching d-boys on the corner from my window seat it's like the gra** so green (uh) Out of money and its so tempting Especially when the honey's want a n***a that's flexing Imagine being twelve gripping a Smith and Wesson Difference between me and them, I learned the lesson Seen a n***a bleeding out, red tee blessing But it still got a n***a stressing Cuz I know the devil been testing PoPo arresting Never make the same moves to keep a n***a guessing Sparks [Outro: Dr. Ya**er A. Payne] You have a community or neighborhoods that are under siege Right By the structural systems Right So you have communities that are sustained in poverty or structural violence Right And for us and what we found in the study is that the structural violence is predicting the violence in the city