Peaceful Journey

Here's to you...

You have gone through struggles, suffering..

This one goes out to everybody in the world, but especially on the street level

Because I know where you comin from and some of the things you do, I can understand

So through all your travels, I'm wishing you a peaceful journey

What is a friend for? Through rich and through poor

Kinda like a marriage balanced on a different floor

A friend could tell you things that he wouldn't tell another

So in essence, a friend could be considered a brother

You laugh and you play a lot, you talk and you say a lot

But when it's time to feel the pain, you cry and you pray a lot

I'm talkin about you, you who have the time

A time to be my friend when no one else would be mine

Problems were nothing because I had my man to share them with

Hills were nothing neither, 'cause I had my man to climb 'em with

I'm really proud to say that I truly really knew you good

And oh, God's blessing from the entire neighborhood

And as the days drift, drift into the future

I laugh a little louder at the times that I was witcha

This one's for you and I truly hope you hear me

And through all your travels, I'm wishing you a peaceful journey

You'rrrrrrrre on my miiiiiiiiiiiind (You're on my mind)

And I wish you a peaceful journey (Peace!)

Brother I hope you hear me

In the corner, sits the little girl in tears

The shadow of a man overwhelms her fears

"Mommy, mommy, NO!", the words of a battered child

The wicked, wicked mommy has the sticks swingin buckwild

"Mister, mister, do you have a dime?

See, I'm hungry and I'd rather be a begger than do crime"

Sure - here's your dime, go make a big ten bucks

Now sneak around the corner, get your joints and go beat him up

A kid on the streets, doesn't want to be beat

So he hangs on the block 'til his pop fall asleep

Missing kids on the milk carton

A lunatic kills kids for kicks and gets pardoned

Baby girls run away from home, huh

and two months later, they're stars on child porn

Tracks on the arms of a minor

Suzie ran too, but she'll be dead when they find her

Kids on the street movin drugs, the thugs' growin up fast

Wouldn't stop when one gets plunged

Junior stole a Benz with his friends

But got caught, now he's doin time with twenties and tens

For the rest of his life, he learns to lean on the wall

And prays for the day when his number is called

This one if for you and I truly hope you heard me

Through all your travels, I'm wishing you a peaceful journey

Pardon me, mister warden, I'm askin for a pass

to come for some of my brothers who made mistakes in the pass

It's really not their fault, you see - times are HARD

and it was probably difficult for my man to find a job

Before he was forced, forced to make a living

by lying, stealing, and eventually killing

No one was born bad, we're all God's Kids

So who's to really blame for the wrong that he did?

And speakin about the law, what are they for?

To beat us with a stick face down on the floor?

You preach and you preach that you want crime to stop

If you want crime to stop, stop hiring crooked cops

So hear me brother man, hear my plea!

If you want success all you gotta do is suc-ceed

Love, life, pain, death

What else is left on the travels of life's steps?

In life, we lose, get bumped and bruised

The road you choose not necessarily a cruise

You giggle for joy, shed a tear for pain

There's a lot to lose, and a lot to gain

Though when you walk on the streets, try to walk on street smarts

When you see your man down, try to have a little heart

This one if for you and I truly hope you heard me

Through all your travels, I'm wishing you a peaceful journey

Yeah, you're on my mind...

Peace...

Hear me now brother

Stop your killing, stop your killing

Stop your stealing, stop your stealing

Stop your killing, stop your killing

Stop your killiiiii-ehhhhh-eeeeaaasah...

Huurrrrrrrr.....WHOO!

Take my hand, take my hand

If you need somebody, you can trust on ME!

Ha, you can lean on me

Yes, you can errrr-aaaaahh-yaaahyaah...