COMPA$$ION (a selfish song)
Dre Benn
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Good evening, everyone My name is Dre Benn And this is a selfish song This one for all my people dancing at the club like it's the weekend This for all of yall that's rolling up a blunt and packing beakers This for everyone who chilling in that parking lot til three This song is for the children wondering who the f*ck they'll be This one for all my people listening to this thru their busted speakers This for all of you that fending off addiction, FIGHT YOUR DEMONS This for everyone who ignorantly glorify those streets This song is for the children, but who need it most is me Park benches Curbside Penitentiary "Don't got space, you free to go No, we're not helping you bitches Once you're out, then you're out Pick yourself up by your own britches" They don't tell you Most successfully set up for failure Tryna make you think Wealth is work and good behavior They don't mention poverty is cyclical in nature So you free now, but don't go nowhere to go How you focus on employment when you don't got no home? "Rehabilitation just a word It doesn't profit enough to work" The type of reasoning that these sheltered privileged people use absurd To me I believe we all deserve beauty Translation - basic dignity, respect and love truly Transform a motherfucker Metamorphosize like butterfly Came out of the other side Reborn in warmth and understanding I know the opps already yelling Asking, "Where's your funding?" "These treatment centers, rapid re-housing won't get our money Overrun by desperate addicts just surviving til their next fix It ain't our problem, rather go home, turn on some Netflix" So we spend the evening smoking our weed and streaming Life While another nameless figure OD on 3rd and Pike (You're having trouble getting out) Yeah, I mean everybody has a story out here, you know There's some people that are here because they have a disability Some people are here because of their addictions This one for all my people saying that these homeless people tweaking This for all of yall ain't thinking with your head before you speaking This for everyone who heaping ridicule on those in need This song is for the children, they copy everything they see This one for all my people switching their perspective for good reasons This for all of yall who living like the preacher read Ephesians This for everyone who understand compassion always free This song is for the children, but who need it most is me (If you had three wishes, what would they be?) Uh, well, one would be to-, to be able to have Actually have a healthy relationship with my family Another one would be to be off the heroin Um, to, you know get the help that I need to get off of it My third wish would be to find, to find, uh, employment So I can get, you know Get my life together, get my shit together And you know, tha-, that along with those wishes comes, uh In order for those to happen, I have to help myself (Well, thank you very much for talking) No problem, thank you for Thank you for giving me a couple minutes to share my-, my story This one for all my people saying that these homeless people tweaking This for all of yall ain't thinking with your head before you speaking This for everyone who heaping ridicule on those in need This song is for the children, they copy everything they see This one for all my people switching their perspective for good reasons This for all of yall who living like the preacher read Ephesians This for everyone who understand compassion always free This song is for the children, but who need it most is me
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