Be Safe

Too many years now I held my tongue and read

Forming opinions while i listened to what was said

I've lived my dreams, my own reality

A tacit birthright breeding hate and jealousy

But there are too many people angry

Watched over with popcorn and candy

Too many people burned by conditions beyond their control

Too many lives have been killed by

Money and happenstance drive-bys

They fall by the wayside, never stirring a soul

Be safe? Is not the way I want to be

I want to be open and let myself go free

So heed the call 'cause what's right is in your mind

You gotta be open have trust in what you'll find

Too many years now I've turned to news at 10

A rape, a killing, and the Knicks have lost again

My mind's conditioned to tune out at the sight

The grand delusion that we all sleep well at night

There is a problem that won't ever go away

I guess survival is the promise of today

But I'm a dreamer and my dream has just begun

We are a family if the world is truly one

Be safe? Is not the way I want to be

I want to be open and let myself go free

So heed the call 'cause what's right is in your mind

You gotta be open have trust in what you'll find

This is the last time you will live

If you are broken, just forgive

It takes a moment to break this chain

And realize we are all the same

Be safe? Is not the way I want to be

I want to be open and let myself go free

So heed the call 'cause what's right is in your mind

You gotta be open have trust in what you'll find

They might say the choice was lost in history

There is no hope for vengeful hearts who are suffering

But these are chains that tortured every ancestry

You gotta be open and listen to be free