Sekken Thaughtz - City Don't Sleep lyrics

[Verse 1:] Now everyday that I walk outta my building I see homeless people sleeping and chillin' on the steps to the apartment that I live in Im not saying everyone is a victim, but the people that I live would treat em more like villains then actual citizens I walk past a man laying in his own vomit, who gets his food and his garments by digging in the garbage I beg your pardon. Mr president but I'm a resident and since you've been in office I haven't seen any evidence of things changin' We go into our Iraq and attack When got people on the streets without a roof over their backs We've come to accept the homeless as part of our landscape The money the government wastes could provide them with a safe place To eat and sleep, but we cease to see that our own country is based around war, power and greed We got families on the street with no where to go, and the concrete's the only place they have to call home [Hook x2] Nowhere to call your own Out here in the cold Wishing you had a home Feeling you're all alone [Verse 2:] Now every face tells a different story, a different message Now how can we judge the book when we don't know the beginning We don't know what turned 'em to the bottle, or started injectin' We just see dirty clothes and another bum beggin' Whatta bout the kid who was an addict the second that his mom was pregnant Or the young girl who was raped and stripped up, everything sacred Who now stands downtown walkin' on the block pacin' cause the only way she knows how to make it, is gettin' naked We don't want to face it And it being the fact that the government created the ghetto and gave it crack To oppress immigrants and blacks, and give 'em more of a set back Like the last 500 years wasn't enough to accomplish that Now look at the homeless rate, and tell me to my face the race Doesn't play an intricate part in your fate in the United States Now think about your home, and the place that you sleep And the homeless, who only have the concrete [Hook x2] Now if you wanna see change? Then throw your ones in the air You think the system that we're living in is not fair? You wanna see change? Then put your ones in the air Now point it to the ground, cause change starts right there You wanna see change? Then put your ones in the air You think the system that we're living in is not fair? You wanna see change? Then put your ones in the air Now point 'em to yourself, cause change starts right there Cause change starts right there [Outro:] Streets are cold, all alone, in the city Where you lay your head is your home, what a pity People pa** you by with a glance say you're filthy But they don't know they pain you've been through, no not really