Star In The Sky - Yukmouth

This can’t be my life

Broke, struggling in the streets

I know one day I’m gon shine

Like a star in the sky

Like a star in the sky

Dear lord, I was born to be a star

Raised in the projects, even though my moms was at the bar

I’m so gifted, I tought myself how to draw, read comic books

Screaming dear lord, I know this can’t be life

Every night I’m eating beans and rice

My shoes holy, and my jeans is tights

I see the broke man blues, but still believe in rights

We go to church every Sunday

Me and my grandma, she would say th lord would come and save us one day

But thn it’s back to the gunplay

In the ghetto where the first and 15 like a birthday

Cause that’s the day we got payed

My mama was a crackhead, so it got blazed

Kept going to church, but grandma got saved

And pray for the day me and my family got payed

This can’t be my life

Broke, struggling in the streets

I know one day I’m gon shine

Like a star in the sky

Like a star in the sky

Mama, why the other kids get to ride a bike?

I had to build a gold car out of wood, we was so broke, I couldn’t buy a bike

The front had rollerskating wheels, a string to stear

The back was big training wheels

And my seat was a milk crate

My break was my shoes, that’s why my heels scraped

Just hoping that my mama had a meal made

But she smoked out, I had to eat at my folks' house

Thank god for friends, cause if I didn’t have 'em, I’d be eating out of garbage

cans

I put it all in the father’s hands, cause when I’m starving man, he let me eat,

so it’s part of the plan

I just apreashate I got clothes

Even though they got holes

I was in motels eating on the hot stove

Being broke will make you go berserk

Think I’m lieing?

I was crying when I wrote this verse

True story

This can’t be my life

Broke, struggling in the streets

I know one day I’m gon shine

Like a star in the sky

Like a star in the sky

Daddy, why you never go to work?

When they giving out buter and free cheese, the only time my mother go to church

It’s sad, but my family was poor

Now we sleeping in the ally outside of the store

Lord, how could we get evicted?

From section 8, but mama was addicted, kept spending with them heavyweights

My dad stayed locked up, he was a pusher, so my only choice was move with my

grandma or my sister

Me and my little sister had different

She so she moved with her father

Damb, me and my sisters all seperated

And my family spent the check on theyself, hated

Make a youngster wanna run away

Commit suicide, a voice inside told me put the gun away

It brought a tear to my eye

Lord let me survive

Cause Imma shine like a star in the sky

This can’t be my life

Broke, struggling in the streets

I know one day I’m gon shine

Like a star in the sky

Like a star in the sky