There’s more to life than you see   Your thinking what else can there be   Stuck in your own world, naive   To what your mind cannot conceive   Bring it girl at fourteen   Decides to kill her own baby   Kept it quiet, bet you never knew she lived right down the street      What will it take for you to?   Open your eyes and let you   See what is in front of you   See what you’re going to lose   It’s time for you to choose   How yourself will take the news   What will it take for you to?      Living now in the street   Forced into drums just to eat   Go with controversy   Black America is on its knees   See it on the t.v.   Its corporate river still it bleeds   So many victims   Still you don’t care till its you on your knees      What will it take for you to?   Open your eyes and let you   See what’s right in front of you   To see what you are going to lose   It’s time for you to choose   How yourself will take the news      Time counting down now   Count for mine   Crack a rhyme   From the world that just won’t hear now   Tell the families why they lost their   Sons, and daughters, and fathers   Losing hope in one another    Giving up on your own brothers   The killing dead America      What will it take for you to?   Open your eyes and let you   See what’s in front of you   To see that’s what you are going to lose   It’s time for you to choose   How yourself will take the news   What will it take for you to?   What will it take for you to?   The killing dead America