Letter To The Future

Heavy D. And The Boyz

Intro (spoken):



People

The world today is in a very difficult situation

And we all know it

Because we're the ones who created it.



Chorus:



What's wrong with our future? (4x)



Verse One:



Bust this



How long will this last?

A friend to the end a memory in the past

You think you're big cause you walk with a shotgun

I got new for you your days are numbered son

Why don't you get yourself a job?

When your kid grows up, do you want him to rob?

Look at your mother, teardrops

She just received a phone-call from the cops

"Your son will do life, 'cause he wigged a man's wife

Shot her with a gun and stabbed her with a knife.", or

Take a look at your mother's heart torn

She just received a phone-call from the morgue

"Your son is dead from three shots to the head.

The killer left a note and this is what the note said:

"Never be bigger than you are.

Never try to pose like you're a superstar

Next time you rob somebody, and you give him the death-wish.

When you pull the trigger, nigga, don't miss."

Is this how you wanna be

Dead on the street or locked in a penetentiary?

It's cool to be free

And it's alright for you to be you and for me to be me

Look at you, 15 years old

Coolin on the corner with a can of Old Gold

Whatever happened to school?

Yeah, sure you go to school, but you go to be cool

To sport sneakers that you took from somebody

To talk about the kid that you bucked at some party

Life is a gamble, and you're losin

Before it's too late, brother, you better start choosin

Left from right, right from wrong

Or you'll be singin that old blues song

(Yo, you gotta buck em, or else you're soft)

Some I knew thought the same, now they're way up North

You ain't soft, cause you didn't buck a shot

Put the pistol down, throw up your hands, see what ya got