Promise Of A Better Tomorrow - 2Pac (图派克)

Now of course I want peace on the streets but realistically

Paintin' perfect pictures ain't never worked my misery

Was so deep couldn't sleep through all my pressures

In my quest for cash I learned fast usin' violent measures

Memories of adolescent years there was unity

But after puberty we brought war to our community

So many bodies droppin' it's gotta stop I wanna help

But still I'm steppin' keep my weapon must protect myself

The promise of a better tomorrow ain't never reached me

Plus my teachers was too petrified in class to teach me

Sippin' thunderbird and grape kool-aid callin' earl

Since my stomach was empty it seduced me to f**k the world

Watch my lil' homies lose they childhoods to guns

Nobody cries no more 'cause we all die for fun

So why you ask me if I want peace

If you can't grant it

N***as fightin 'cross the whole planet

So it could never be peace

It seems *** done turned this whole motherf**kin' hood out

All us n***as actin' up wild-ass motherf**kin' adolescents

These n***as ain't even got no childhoods no more

How the f**k can you have a childhood

And you at the funeral every muh'f**kin' weekend

Pssh and you muh'f**kers talkin' about peace

N***a it ain't no motherf**kin' peace

You ain't seen the news motherf**ker you ain't heard

Somebody owes me will they control me not

I ain't a hater player but I want all you got

Y'all babies had babies now we fightin' each other

My dawgs got rabies they bitin' each other

And it ain't hard to find a friend like mine

Bigfully is a bullet and he don't mind dyin'

And I gotta be blind missed sign after sign

Time after time after time after time

And I don't like nobody they don't like me more

And I'm good with that finally but it heard it before

Dawg we livin' in a prison losin' our religion

On thanks giving we thankful

Just for livin' in hell

D**n homey I don't mean to be harsh

But there's a devil in the ghetto

Tryin' to tear it apart

And if we make it up out

We still stuck in the dark

Will there ever be peace

Just a piece of my heart never

Yeah

The only peace we got is the peace of our heart

Peace of our mind or that d**n piece

That we hold in our waistline

You feel me dawg c'mon uh

Will ever be peace or are we all just

Headed for doom still consumed by the beast

And I know there'll never be peace never

That's why I keep my pistol

When I walk the streets

'Cause there'll never be peace

Thangs is changin' n***a you better read the signs

I'm only concerned about me and mine in these times

The world is a ghetto and peace

Is not a part of it

We all believe god's

New plan to make it out of this

N***as spendin' too much time hatin' on each other

N***as buyin' guns loadin' 'em up aimin' at each other

And the victim is you and me

It's sick but it's true indeed

The good die mostly over bulls**t repeatedly

Deep in me there's a part that wants nothin' but love

But the rest of me know war is what's waitin' for us

So I stays ready keep my pay heavy and boss up

Stack my funds and my guns never rely on luck

Asking god to point out the impostor

Never let no weapon formed against me prosper

'Cause there'll never be peace so don't rely on it

Soldiers dyin' for it and in the ghetto

They cryin' for it but f**k never

Lil' babies gettin' smoked muh'f**kers killin' they whole family

Lil' kids gettin' thrown off buildings

Muh'f**kers gettin' abused

Peace n***a is you out your f**kin' mind

F**k peace we can't never have peace

'Til you motherf**kers clean up this mess you made

Till you f**kin' clean up the dirt you dropped

'Til we get s piece f**k peace westside

Deffron our little more

Never never

Never never

Now of course I want peace on the streets but realistically

Peace on the streets

Peace on the streets

Peace on the streets

Peace on the streets

Peace on the streets

Peace on the streets