New Dawn Anthem - Waco Poetry

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What is this gibberish
it's only hubris
it might be dubious
these words could be ridiculous
compounded deviance
and it ain't humorous
but I can see the damage
caused by what is ludicrous

Let's take back all that's good
clean up our neighborhoods
get rap and thugs up outta here
because they no damn good
stand up and don't get jacked
that preacher's Cadillac
done robbed us blind
with a slick beat
but people take it back

And every kid ain't nice
dark can be bright as light
just cause they're cheering
doesn't mean that rapper's rap is tight
if every body's yelling
to just go start rebelling
that's just a mob who hate their jobs
and lives are probably failing

Now that I said it twice
don't be the scarifice
that gets strung out and laughed about
and loses most ya' life
look and see what is good
don't trust the neighborhood
to teach you right from wrong
they want you slintered like old wood

(chorus)

if I could say a thing or two to
my young youth
it'd be
"be good"
If I could say a thing or two to
my young youth
it'd be
"love good"

tricky, clever, evil words are fantastically absurd
and a wicked rocking beat it ain't worth the price to eat
if it's looking rather crazy and it's sounding rather lazy
flee the atmosphere of lusty dust cause the devil's games are hazy
get up outta there

free your ears and save your selves... plug into something
positive and save yourself

(Verse Two)

So cheer up in those hoods
and do the work you should
they'll live the life but it won't last
but yours will turn out good
Develop all your skills
your gifts, your mind your will
leave legacies that in the future
people read of still

Know truth is always right
yo' snitch you really light
exposing wrong behavior, foolish choice
and all that creates jacked up blight
put your hand in the air
and stand and just declare
you are the antidote to problems
cause you want it fair

Keep at it sons and daughters
even if there're no fathers
rebuild a nation one by one
and let us old folks holla
Well you done done us proud
we will say very loud
we will embrace you and we'll thank you
we people all around

(chorus)
if I could say a thing or two to
my young youth
it'd be
"be good"
If I could say a thing or two to
my young youth
it'd be
"love good"


These Thugs have got to go... Need more folks like SPEECH and Lauryn... Will the real talented progressive writers and lyricists please take heart and get out there!!! No more embarrassing folk on the mic!!!

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