MellowShade

About to change the way that you look at me
I gave up a long time ago wanting to be free
Now am content with my eyes closed and can’t see
Only want to survive as long as I can
I don’t have any goals I am an ignorant man
I am a child of the night who is lost [...]

Tags: Beast, Bitch, Choices, Clue, Compromise, Cool School, Hamzatu, Homeless, Long Time, Lost, Manners, MellowShade, New Age, Nigger, Old school, Piece Of Dirt, Reflection, Traditions

It’s late in the night and I’m about to get in the mix
Don’t do drugs, don’t need a fix
Getting away from the bricks, the pain, and other disease
Going out to the burbs to catch a breeze
Got to make some money  my family needs to eat
I am not that nice and when I come I come [...]

Tags: Bricks, Burbs, Cheese, Drugs, Fear, Fun, Game, Late Night, Life In The Ghetto, Money, Peace Is The Way, Sport

Why are you harassing me
I’m the janitor at Harvard University
Do you think you can come push me around
Just because my skin is brown
Why did you come bursting through the door?
Did you think I was robbing a store
They hired me to do a  job
But you think I’m in this neighborhood to rob
Put the handcuffs on me
And [...]

Tags: Flo, Hamzatu, Handcuffs, Harvard University, Janitor, Job, Law Degree, MellowShade, Neighborhood, Special Friend

I took a trip the other day
Had to get away from around the way
I saw a new thing I had not seen
Like the grass and the trees
In the burbs I saw a pretty girl
A pretty girl from another world
She was a afraid because she saw me on TV
I told her that what she saw was [...]

Tags: Brother, Burbs, Child Of The Night, Discover, Fun, Ghetto Love, Grass, Hamzatu, Hand In Glove, Pretty Girl, Science, Sunshine, Thug, Trees

They are rounding em up around the way
The pigs and the dogs run and play
Stick em up bang bang
Get out of your car right now
Face down on the ground
It used to be easy the pigs we knew
Smelled like swine now they are just like you
They turned the brothers upon themselves
And brothers oversee  slaves like they [...]

Tags: Bang Bang, Dogs, Equality, Face, Glock, Hearts, Long Arm, Opression, Pigs, Police Uniform, Puppies, Slaves, Swine, Teeth, Uniform Patrol, Worst Nightmare

I walk around with a frown
I don’t talk, don’t stare me down
What you need I don’t have
Helping you is not my command
If you need faith
Don’t look at me
Faith is in you but you don’t see
Don’t try to fool me
But be true to yourself
Reach for what you need
And don’t ask someone else
We are a mighty people
The [...]

Tags: Crying The Blues, Faith, Fear, Look To The Sky, People Of The Sun, Truth

I don’t care about you and all that I think about is  me
I don’t care about nothing that you think or see
When in your neighborhood I come around
I will bring your property value down
I am lazy and have a thousand excuses
The sun was in my eyes or my shoes were to loose
Whenever you see me [...]

Tags: Homies, Locks, Money, Neighborhood, Rat, Shoes, Stab, Sun Was In My Eyes

No sudden moves
I am the child of the night
If I could fly I would fly you to a better place
But its too late
You must know me by now
I listen to the beat of the night
Do you think that I am someone that you might want to see
Don’t get excited when you pass by me
I am [...]

Tags: Beat Of The Night, Fly, Night Moves, Sudden Moves

Born in the ghetto
I am looking through a hole in the wall
It has been a long time coming
But they say a change is going to come
It has been too hard living but I don’t want to die
And I don’t know what is up with this guy
It has been a long time coming
Now they claim that [...]

Tags: Brother Brother, Ghetto, Hole In The Wall, Long Time

Everything gettin backed up
The world turning the other way
Bottom whats up and stick’em up
Started to rise up from the ghetto
From brothers on the down low
To the four winds we throw
Up from nothing you know
Into the night we go
Up from the gutter and the ghetto
Don’t feel me and don’t see me
Cause you don’t look down
When you [...]

Tags: Four Winds, Ghetto, Growing Grass, Gutter, Noses, Rain Rain Rain, Rising Star, Seige, Sleep