It Could Be Worse - Awon

I used to wait around for payday until I got fired

Couldn’t get rehired early I retired

Only to realize it could be worse

What if I couldn’t spit this verse?

What if I was on my way to my funeral in a herse?

Getting buried next to my co d in the dirt

What if it was never rap never a beat?

That means I’ll never move my feet

What will inspire me?

No music is no life no way of expression

Through my depression I’m still counting all my blessings

Destiny it has to be because its Gods intent

If its meant to be I’m behind it 100 percent

What if I was never born never though of

What if I never saw Earth never saw love?

I take it day by day loving my people

Huggin the block hustling for the root of all evil

I had to stop putting me first

I had to realize yo this could be worse

I could be dead or in jail

Uneducated and frail

Another endangered black male

I had to stop putting me first

I had to realize yo this could be worse

There is really no one to blame

And we can’t complain maintain

Cause you control change

What if your family was plagued with cancer and A.I.D.S?

And someone put a number on you days

Three uncles in three years that’s serious

Cause that’s three brothers that didn’t out live their own mother

Or what if you where born innocent, yet torn with sickness

By your own mother’s dumb decisions

I’ve witnessed niggas complain about hustling and things

And they don’t understand the nature of the game

It could be worse than pumpin on the block with rocks

Runnin from cops you could get locked

Chillin in Comstock for a crime you didn’t commit

Rather you didn’t pull the trigger

Cause of your record they figure to put it on you nigga

I seen it all cause I’m young and wise, yet old

There are newborn babies who get abandoned in the cold

Sistas without a child cause children they can’t bear

Homeless people on my street screamin it ain’t fair

I had to stop putting me first

I had to realize yo this could be worse

I could be dead or in jail

Uneducated and frail

Another endangered black male

I had to stop putting me first

I had to realize yo this could be worse

There is really no one to blame

And we can’t complain maintain

Cause you control change

I sit back and reflect and thank God that I’m healthy

And my son was born strong so I’m wealthy

I want to reach out to some of those who felt me

I’m just frustrated with what rappers tell me

On records constantly whining about grindin

They should be thankful for the chance to be rhyming

Cause its kids out there with just one wish

Some people still ain’t free put up one fist

Because the real

Is this country let us rob and steal hustle this crill

And con people out of their scrill

In some places looking at a man’s wife a get you killed

So less blood spilled no you thugs feel lucky

Opportunity is infinite

Look around you ever wonder why you see so many businesses

So I excepted that it could be first and put my fam first

So my life has worth

I had to stop putting me first

I had to realize yo this could be worse

I could be dead or in jail

Uneducated and frail

Another endangered black male

I had to stop putting me first

I had to realize yo this could be worse

There is really no one to blame

And we can’t complain maintain

Cause you control change

I had to stop putting me first

I had to realize yo this could be worse

I could be dead or in jail

Uneducated and frail

Another endangered black male

I had to stop putting me first

I had to realize yo this could be worse

There is really no one to blame

And we can’t complain maintain

Cause you control change