June 6th 1975
In Miami Florida was the
place I first arrived
My parents smiled
as I opened my blues eyes
'cause they was newly married
and I was their first child
My pop was from Jersey
my mom was from Miami
They met in the bed
stuy Brooklyn NYC
At Art College and yes they was hippies
So I guess that makes me
child of the sixties
But anyways we didn't stay
we moved to plant city
Then to Lakeland then
to Miami then to Ybor city
Living in the hood where
things are never ever pretty
The only white kid smack
dab in the inner city
My playground is a parking
lot plus a back ally
At times I would wake up in the
dark with no electricity
On top of that we were strug
gling cause we got no money
And going through this inside
it's killing me
I was about 6 when all this was goin on
Things began to change everything
I knew was up and gone
They separated on the weekends
I would see my mom
Still living with my pops in my
hood but not for too long
When I was nine they divorced
and I was moving on
To the suburbs with my mom
cause courts said it was wrong
For me to be living in the hood with
my dad so I'm up and gone
Mom remarried and had a baby
we living in my grandmas home
We living in a neighborhood
that's middle class
But I felt poor because of some
things I didn't have
Time passed we moved out
but still thing aint right
I'm slipping fast at home all
I do is fight and yell
My grades start to crash plus I ran
away from home twice
And almost got shot by the
cops one single night
I started high school and
party all the time
But little did I know what was gonna
happen to my life
At 15 had a talk with my
cousin got me thinking
Was there more to life than girls
partying and drinking
I picked up his bible and started
reading revelations
For some reason I was crying
when I reach the ending
Now God was working on me
and this was the beginning
The first time in a long while
that I started praying
I had to move again and again
and say goodbye to everyone
My dad and my friends was
once again all up and gone
Brand new school by my
self sitting all alone
Feeling like a fool every single
day I 'm coming home
But I would listen every night
in my bedroom to Gospel
radio preach about Christ
and just then soon
I gave my life to him
everything be came new
I was born again I've never
been the same dude
Ya took my sin and my guilt
and let them blame you
And on and on though the years
you always came through
It was November and the
year was 1995
I still remember the very
first date with my wife
And I was on my own doing
shows part time
Twenty years old just trying to
make something of my life
I moved away home when I
was only eighteen
Broke as a joke making music
trying to chase a dream
And everybody seems to think
I'm crazy ex cept for me
But God was there every
time to supply my needs
I went on staff at
a church in the inner city
Writing rhymes in my
spare time for my CD
I mailed my demo to a
label named Gotee
And out of nowhere Todd
Collins up an d called me
He said he heard my junk and
plus he wanted to sign me
My heart jumped and plus
I want to cry and scream
But all I did was hung up the
phone quietly and thinked
God how he always provided
for me
On and on on and on
