KJ Eclipse - Young Life Blues

Track 4 from the APOC Mixtape over Nas' "Surviving the times" by KJ Eclipse (c) 2010

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(Lyrics Copyright Kyle-Jordan "KJ-Eclipse" Reid, 2009. All Rights reserved.)
[Verse 1]
Broke Hearted, young, and 19 years...
So much on the mind, life seems fierce
Trying to make this grade and get paid
Financial aid, ain't really got me covered these days
Steady fretting 'bout my own life...
Never looked to the right to see my homie struggling in my sights
He hit me up like
"Son I got some real news!"
I almost dropped the phone cuz he started singing blues
Saying "Dude... my lady came through so we cruised,
Hit the bedroom and did the 'thing' for a few...
A couple weeks later she was telling me she blew chunks
All up in the toilet every day around noon.
So that could mean one thing or two...
Food poisoning, or her time of the month is passed due.
I hope it ain't the latter, I can barely battle youth.
If I have to battle two, life's shattered out of view.
Son I can't afford it. She know we can't support it...
Life's important but we might get it aborted.
My mind's so distorted, I can't even think.
I'm tempted just to grab a bottle and drink...
Look I don't mind being a father, kid...
But I'll be damned if my seed... got it harder than his father did..."
I told him I feel him and I understand, but yo,
On the real it's just part of being a man.
Damn, he took a stand and I'm proud of him
He making plans for the baby with his lady and he follows 'em.
I pray the hands of the lord can provide for 'em.
They'll be alright. There's maad love for the life in 'em.
Look I'm just wondering what I would do if I was in his shoes
Trying to get through all the blues...
From his point of view, hearing the truth,
A sweet tune...
Called the young life blues...
[Chorus]
I'm singing young life blues
Feel the pain in my heart subdue
Impossible... to get myself out this mood
When I ain't never had the strength to move
I'm stuck like you...
The melody of love ensues and the pain gets unbearable
It's there for you...
Just the youthful blues... another story of the young life blues...
[Verse 2]
With all the sex crazed media attention in the biz
It ain't really surprising why these kids having kids
Even my little sis had to tell me "yo it's crazy! One of my close friends
Started sexing already!"
She only fifteen, but her boy used the "L" word.
She fell first so he robbed her of her self worth
The word worked like a charm, naïve and dumb,
She slept with him just to strengthen her bond
Then he left her in the morn...and she's still addicted
The pain inflicted in her heart started shifting
She hardly thinking and she's drifting it's obvious...
The dude used her like a puppet so ominous
And I don't wanna call it this, but it's all fake
Cuz in her mind he's freedom and she's a stowaway
And all the feelings she's grabbed may never go away
The innocence of her past had just been thrown away
We tried to be there for her, tried to support her
But she sayin gthat it's all our fault for her disorder...
I guess there's nothing left to do but wait...
And pray...
I'm hoping shorty finds her way.
[Repeat Chorus]
Dishonesty, poverty, pregnancy, AIDS
Embodying the problems of the youth of today
To think we'd save grace with the blues we play
But the troubles don't stray when we sing this way
Try to open up my mind to find that clear sign of peace
I hardly speak on youthful dreams
Hear the teen's screams drown the sound of blues sweet
And let the lullaby put their pain to sleep...
[Repeat Chorus]

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Hip-hop
• blu
• exile
• phonte
• little brother
• mos def
• nas
• illmatic
• real
• underground
• kanye
• j dilla
• slum village
• arkansas
• 3000
• birds
• 100000
• fish
• 2012

[xxHORRORICONxx]

good stuff man..this is spazmatic j

[sumstrangers]

KJ Eclipse, 2011, homie, imma holla at you real soon after january ! Big track homie.

[wuzcloopin]

"Surviving the Times" remix. Nice.

[DrDMuzic]

sick! you know 15sixty3 is goin places!