Chance

Chance

Do you still love me?

Do you miss the slow kisses I used to give?

Do you miss the hickeys I used to leave?

Are you mad?

I had to leave

Cuffs around my wrist, I wish I were free

I lost it all when I made that man bleed

Just to show the hood I’m concrete

In this cell with shackles on my feet,

Feeling so weak

I threw my life away for a hood that doesn’t pay my rent

It doesn’t take care of my kid when I’m in the pen

But I went to this extent

To show some people that don’t even care enough to put money on my books

They don’t even call, nor come give me a look

I used to think they took away my life

Until I realized I didn’t have to pull that trigger

I should have been at work making figures

To feed my family

Instead of defending a hood,

That doesn’t do me no good

Shit, I just want another chance

That man in the ground probably thinking the same damn thing