No Lights

[Intro]<br>How y`all doin ladies and gentlemen?<br>My name is King Barry Gordy<br>And... I have a story for y`all<br>You know somebody that went through it<br>I don`t care where you from...<br>East, West, midwest, South, please listen<br><br>[Chorus]<br>Momma why we ain`t got no lights?<br>Why you and auntie fight over a pipe?<br>Why all these roaches at night?<br>Why my uncle always come and steal every thing in sight?<br>Why different guys pick up my sister every day of her life?<br>Why my brother in the streets always blazing that indo?<br>Why they sellin crack and blowin up your basement window?<br>Momma why you send me to school dirty and never clean?<br>I`m gettin teased cause my clothes smell like kerosene<br><br>[Verse 1]<br>I see my breath in my own house<br>I notice the eviction notice on the door so I guess we finna get thrown out<br>Momma please pay the rent when your next check come<br>She can barely spit out a word cause her mouth is so numb<br>And big brother I can`t believe you<br>You ridin in cars with these two<br>and you know we need food<br>You sellin `cane outta here<br>drunk felons hang out in here<br>You ain`t hearing things loud and clear, is you?<br>You know momma can`t take care of us<br>Face it nigga, you our parents, bro<br>Cause all our sister wanna do is do her hair and fuck<br>She`s the neighborhood rat, all the homies hit it<br>All the hood niggaz hit it, started yellin at the trick<br>Me and her don`t even hit it<br>Her conversation strictly money and niggaz<br>So she just be senseless<br>Never though a nigga life would ever be this bold<br>I shouldn`t even be seeing this shit, just ten years old<br><br>[Chorus]<br>Momma why we ain`t got no lights?<br>Why you and auntie fight over a pipe?<br>Why all these roaches at night?<br>Why my uncle always come and steal every thing in sight?<br>Why different guys pick up my sister every day of her life?<br>Why my brother in the streets always blazing that indo?<br>Why they sellin crack and blowin up your basement window?<br>Momma why you send me to school dirty and never clean?<br>I`m gettin teased cause my clothes smell like kerosene<br><br>[Verse 2]<br>My brother`s locked up now a nigga really out here<br>Going to school mad as hell cause I ain`t got no gear<br>Man, I`m fired up<br>Don`t even know the last time I had a haircut<br>G, is you feelin me? But I`m gettin suspended<br>Cause I`m always gettin defensive<br>Feelin offended, swinging on classmates in an instant<br>Often walking home crying cause my pride is dead<br>So much pain in society gone take time to heal it<br>On my way home from school prayin to lord almighty<br>that when I get to school no one`s gon be fittin to be fightin<br>We`ll just leave that shit alone and maybe we`ll be alright<br>But I`ll never be ok, there`s to much drugs and violence<br>I see my auntie and here husband move they stuff in<br>My mommy, what happened to her friend`s checks that she does her drugs wit<br>And when her credit is gone and all the money is out<br>my uncle leave and take all his stuff out the house<br><br>[Chorus]<br>Momma why we ain`t got no lights?<br>Why you and auntie fight over a pipe?<br>Why all these roaches at night?<br>Why my uncle always come and steal every thing in sight?<br>Why different guys pick up my sister every day of her life?<br>Why my brother in the streets always blazing that indo?<br>Why they sellin crack and blowin up your basement window?<br>Momma why you send me to school dirty and never clean?<br>I`m gettin teased cause my clothes smell like kerosene<br><br>[Verse 3]<br>My sisters pregnant with her third baby in three years<br>I`m 13, my mom`s still a dope fiend<br>My brother`s outta the pen saying he`ll stay clean<br>No weed or dope sellin, gettin a job wit no felon<br>Two days later when I see him this shit was so funny<br>Watch him half kill a friend cause the bitch owe him money<br>My momma and auntie takin blows in the kitchen<br>Beefin over a piece of a nickel that came up missin<br>My uncle all in my brother room, grabbin all his stuff<br>Uncle when you come home, you know he fuckin you up<br>But what really fucked up, my sister got me babysitting<br>I acting like I don`t know the bitch like she`s just some trick<br>My brother got caught in the crackhouse, they gave him five<br>Keep lockin him up lord, just don`t take his life<br>In the end you thought I`d be some thing but I`m not<br>I`m 18 years old, sellin my momma rocks