I came from a place I forgot   I woke up in a parking lot   Far from a meal and a cot   On the corner      Where all the streets got the same name   Maybe my brains on the brink of insane   Pain between the papers while sleepin' on the train   This the land of milk and honey   Know what I'm sayin'      The invisible man times three black, down and out   Out standing on a corner no doubt   Now a nation of homeless sleepin' in bus stations   Another win for the pilgrims who said no more Haitians      As I proceed someone to feed me is what I need   Through three blocks of dealers tryin to hit me off wit weed   Avenue and boulevard hungry as a motherfucka   Hope to get a ride from a trucker   Everybody know I ain?t no sucker   Everyone used to drop 30 at the rucker      Away from crazy kids in generation wrecked   Dissin' pyramids while praisin' projects   Walk past old folks gettin' no respect   Callin' young folks a bunch a no good rejects and I walk on      An eye for an eye I can?t recognize the man in the mirror   Is it I, it is I now who this cat I'm lookin' at   'Cause I've been waiting so long to get where I'm goin'   An for an eye in this country tis of thee   Now how the hell can I be free   Who this cat I'm lookin' at   'Cause I been lost so long without anybody knowin'      So I move on and I walk on   Past the preachers and the pimps gettin' their talk on   Now why do home gotta be where the negative roam   To be or not to be so I roll alone   I'm trapped within this skin and these bones   Temporary kings on cellular phones      Can I last as I walk past   Cigarette billboards and malt liquor ads   Walkin' on broken bottles and potato chip bags   Everyone I see got the nerve to brag      Where they from what they got and don?t own squat   Disrespect where they from and ya might get shot   Zombies askin' me what the latest bomb be   Should shot the fuckin' sheriff and the fuckin' deputy   For okay in the drug trade and lettin' it be   But I know prison for me is an industry so I walk      I heard the best things in life be free   Didn?t god make the land the air we breathe   Not for the homeless don?t give a damn about me   In the mirror somebody else is starin' at me      Maybe prison is the skin I'm within   All this time I been sufferin' can?t fix it wit a bufferin'   Plus they said I'll never work in this town again   Damn so I keep on walkin'      An eye for an eye, I can?t recognize the man in the mirror   Is it I, it is I now who this cat I'm lookin' at   'Cause I've been waiting so long to get where I'm goin'   An for an eye in this country tis of thee   Now how the hell can I be free   Who this cat I'm lookin' at   'Cause I been lost so long without anybody knowin'      Li'l day day is big day and just did time   Seen him standin' on the unemployment line   Which collided wit the line of the health clinic   I seen crazy Stacy her ass standin' up in it      No more welfare cut her Medicaid   Damn my mama used to do her braids   I keep walkin so they don?t see me   But I doubt if they doin' any better than me      So I walk on never take the planet for granted   I paved the concrete, asphalt and granite   I walk past 3 brothers sittin' on the porch   Wit a yard of dirt and littered wit Newports      Talkin' how they comin' up while they sittin' on their ass   As I walk past em I'm a target of their laughs   And one said lets get 'em for his fuckin' stash   As I walked fast past the other yards wit grass   Had a li'l cash tried to make it last      From a few deals I made from cleanin' windshields   I ran like a rally they caught me in an alley   Can?t get out the ghetto from New York to Cali   I thought I had nuthin' till I felt the knife   And now I ain?t even got a life