B.o.B, Janelle Monáe - The Kids (feat. Janelle Monáe)(2010)

[00:00.32] The drugged boy's steady show time
[00:03.83] The streets don't give a damn
[00:07.29] They're filled with such pollution
[00:11.08] The kids don't stand a chance
[00:14.37] We're trapped inside the matrix
[00:17.45] Forced to play our hands
[00:20.50] We're filled with so much hatred
[00:24.43] The kids don't stand a chance
[00:27.54] I said the kids don't, the kids don't stand
[00:31.36] The kids don't stand a chance
[00:34.39] I said the kids don't, the kids don't stand
[00:38.18] The kids don't stand a chance
[00:41.50] Well, since I was planted at birth
[00:43.69] I abandoned my own planet and I landed on earth
[00:47.66] As a kid I never understood what I observed, and
[00:51.24] Some of it was strange, but most of it disturbed me
[00:54.69] Always in detention for the lack of my attention
[00:57.59] You can call it deficit, really I just didn't listen
[01:01.23] And I was always missing, the teacher's like "where is Bobby Simmons?"
[01:05.40] But trying to get a record deal is all I can remember
[01:09.07] It's funny cause looking back to the past that I had
[01:12.39] All my days in the streets trying to prove that I was bad
[01:15.77] I still elevated to the level that I'm at
[01:19.40] Still elevated to the level that I'm at
[01:22.84] We're trapped inside the matrix
[01:26.40] Forced to play our hands
[01:29.41] We're filled with so much hatred
[01:33.49] The kids don't stand a chance
[01:36.01] I said the kids don't, the kids don't stand
[01:40.02] The kids don't stand a chance
[01:42.80] I said the kids don't, the kids don't stand
[01:46.83] The kids don't stand a chance
[01:49.65] Sometimes it's hard to grow
[01:52.80] While living in fear of the unknown
[01:56.82] How can he ever give love
[02:00.12] When no love is in his heart
[02:03.65] A child can barely sleep at night
[02:06.72] Too worried about tomorrow
[02:10.56] And what it behold, he drowned himself
[02:14.10] Deep down in his sorrows
[02:17.59] Will you run or will you share your life?
[02:21.25] Tell the stories, live and try
[02:24.58] See it when we're given hope
[02:27.70] That we know that we can grow
[02:31.25] We're trapped inside the matrix
[02:35.04] Forced to play our hands
[02:37.84] We're filled with so much hatred
[02:41.54] The kids don't stand a chance
[02:44.44] I said the kids don't, the kids don't stand
[02:48.68] The kids don't stand a chance
[02:51.74] I said the kids don't, the kids don't stand
[02:55.51] The kids don't stand a chance
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