The Kids (feat. Janelle Monae)

The drugged boy's steady show time

The streets don't give a damn

They're filled with such pollution

The kids don't stand a chance

We're trapped inside the matrix

Forced to play our hands

We're filled with so much hatred

The kids don't stand a chance

I said the kids don't, the kids don't stand

The kids don't stand a chance

I said the kids don't, the kids don't stand

The kids don't stand a chance

Well, since I was planted at birth

I abandoned my own planet and I landed on earth

As a kid I never understood what I observed, and

Some of it was strange, but most of it disturbed me

Always in detention for the lack of my attention

You can call it deficit, really I just didn't listen

And I was always missing, the teacher's like "where is Bobby Simmons?"

But trying to get a record deal is all I can remember

It's funny cause looking back to the past that I had

All my days in the streets trying to prove that I was bad

I still elevated to the level that I'm at

Still elevated to the level that I'm at

We're trapped inside the matrix

Forced to play our hands

We're filled with so much hatred

The kids don't stand a chance

I said the kids don't, the kids don't stand

The kids don't stand a chance

I said the kids don't, the kids don't stand

The kids don't stand a chance

Sometimes it's hard to grow

While living in fear of the unknown

How can he ever give love

When no love is in his heart

A child can barely sleep at night

Too worried about tomorrow

And what it behold, he drowned himself

Deep down in his sorrows

Will you run or will you share your life?

Tell the stories, live and try

See it when we're given hope

That we know that we can grow

We're trapped inside the matrix

Forced to play our hands

We're filled with so much hatred

The kids don't stand a chance

I said the kids don't, the kids don't stand

The kids don't stand a chance

I said the kids don't, the kids don't stand

The kids don't stand a chance