Letter To The Future-Heavy D

[ti:Letter To The Future] [ar:Heavy D] [al:Peaceful Journey] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Letter To The Future - Heavy D [00:07.51]People [00:07.68] [00:11.17]The world today is in a very difficult situation [00:12.91] [00:16.13]And we all know it [00:16.93] [00:18.49]Because we're the ones who created it [00:19.91] [00:20.90]What's wrong with our future [00:22.39] [00:26.20]What's wrong with our future [00:27.86] [00:31.49]What's wrong with our future [00:32.60] [00:36.73]What's wrong with our future [00:38.21] [00:40.79]Bust this [00:41.70]How long will this last [00:42.84] [00:44.22]A friend to the end a memory in the past [00:46.10] [00:46.95]You think you're big cause you walk with a shotgun [00:48.87] [00:49.61]I got new for you your days are numbered son [00:52.07]Why don't you get yourself a job [00:53.47] [00:54.23]When your kid grows up do you want him to rob [00:56.47] [00:57.21]Look at your mother teardrops [00:59.03] [00:59.56]She just received a phone call from the cops [01:02.13]Your son will do life 'cause he wigged a man's wife [01:04.44] [01:04.94]Shot her with a gun and stabbed her with a knife or [01:07.81]Take a look at your mother's heart torn [01:10.09]She just received a phone call from the morgue [01:12.73]Your son is dead from three shots to the head [01:15.21]The killer left a note and this is what the note said [01:17.92]Never be bigger than you are [01:19.33] [01:20.60]Never try to pose like you're a superstar [01:22.35] [01:23.00]Next time you rob somebody and you give him the death wish [01:25.78]When you pull the trigger n**ga don't miss [01:27.90] [01:28.61]Is this how you wanna be [01:29.87] [01:31.05]Dead on the street or locked in a penetentiary [01:33.15] [01:33.90]It's cool to be free [01:35.00] [01:35.94]And it's alright for you to be you and for me to be me [01:38.28] [01:38.86]Look at you 15 years old [01:40.78] [01:41.52]Cooling on the corner with a can of Old Gold [01:43.41] [01:44.15]Whatever happened to school [01:45.45] [01:46.18]Yeah sure you go to school but you go to be cool [01:48.65] [01:49.31]To sport sneakers that you took from somebody [01:51.29] [01:51.81]To talk about the kid that you bucked at some party [01:53.88] [01:54.48]Life is a gamble and you're losing [01:56.00] [01:56.93]Before it's too late brother you better start choosing [01:59.14] [01:59.80]Left from right right from wrong [02:01.05] [02:02.55]Or you'll be singing that old blues song [02:04.07] [02:04.88]Yo you gotta buck em or else you're soft [02:07.08]Some I knew thought the same now they're way up North [02:09.60] [02:10.25]You ain't soft cause you didn't buck a shot [02:12.36]Put the pistol down throw up your hands see what ya got [02:15.36]Old Johnny walker from around the block [02:17.16] [02:17.88]Was living rather Large 'till he got knocked [02:19.99]He had Living Large on his Jeep plates [02:22.28]Living Large on his real estate [02:23.77]He even bought a diamond Living Large name plate [02:25.98]He used to look at cops and smile in their face [02:28.50]Drive a BMW and pump the bass [02:30.22] [02:30.83]One day he made a move for a friend [02:32.94]The friend the voice said yo I need ten Johnny said when [02:35.71] [02:36.55]Later on that day Johnny went to play the game he normally plays [02:40.83] [02:41.47]To do a favour for a chum [02:42.84] [02:43.72]You see a friend is a friend but then some are none [02:46.30]Cause when he got to the spot they were supposed to meet [02:49.07]All he found was a police infested street [02:51.33] [02:52.14]I guess having a friend is rough [02:53.94]Cause now Johnny's up North doing push ups getting buffed [02:56.26] [02:57.32]You see this chain I've got I've got it honestly [02:59.59]You see the clothes I wear I've got it honestly [03:02.57]You see the Jeep I drive I've got it honestly [03:04.63] [03:05.21]I work hard it ain't easy being me [03:06.85] [03:07.44]Never had an excuse for life [03:08.86] [03:09.67]Just did what I did now what I do I do it right [03:12.69]Jumbo Jumbo they cry on the block [03:15.15]50 50 lay low here comes the cops [03:17.83]Man your lifestyle is petrol [03:19.13] [03:20.54]On your knees again because Jumbo said so [03:23.29]Free Mandela you cried [03:24.49] [03:25.32]But you still sell dopest to brothers and sisters outside [03:27.34] [03:28.31]Martin Luther King had a dream ooh yeah [03:30.70]That's exactly what turned his dream into a nightmare [03:32.91] [03:33.59]Malcolm X said by any means necessary [03:35.43] [03:36.13]He didn't mean just for you brother he meant for everybody [03:38.47] [03:38.98]Maybe if we were still slaves we'll be closer however [03:41.74]Picking cotton was bad but we picked it together [03:44.28]I pray for you and you pray for me [03:46.61]Sincerely yours the overweight lover Heavy D [03:49.66]What's wrong with our future [03:51.20] [03:54.80]What's wrong with our future [03:56.42] [04:00.02]What's wrong with our future [04:01.68] [04:05.21]What's wrong with our future [04:06.45] 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