For The Moment" [Verse 1] These ideas are nightmares white parents Whose worst fear is child with dyed hair and who likes earrings Like whatever they say has no bearing, it's scary in a house that allows no swearing To him walking around with his headphones blaring Alone in his own cold and he don't care He's a problem And what him all comes out, when he talks about His dad walkin' out Cause he just hates him so bad he blocks him out If he ever saw him again probably knock him out His thoughts are he's mad so he's talkin' back black, brainwashed from rock and rap He sags his pants, do-rags a stocking cap His step-father hit him, so he socked him back, broke his nose His house is a broken home, there's no control, he just let's emotions go... [Chorus] sing with me, {sing}, sing for the years {Sing it}, sing for the laughter, sing for tears, {c'mon) Sing with me, just for today, maybe tomorrow the good Lord will take you away... [Verse 2] is changin', intertwinin' with gangsta's In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind a sanctum Holy or unholy, only one homie Only gun, lonely cause don't anyone know me Yet everybody just feels like they can I guess words are a mothaa they can be Or they can degrade, or even worse they can teach It's like these kids hang on every single statement we they worship us, plus all the stores ship us platinum Now how the this metamorphosis happen From standin' on corners and porches rappin' To havin' a fortune, no more ass But then critics crucify you, journalists try to burn you Fans turn on you, all want a turn at you To get they hands on dime you have, they want you to lose your mind time you mad So they can try to make you out to look like a cannon Any dispute won't hesitate produce handguns That's why these prosecutors convict me, strictly just to get me off of these streets But all they kids be listenin' to me religiously, so i'm signin' cd's police fingerprint me They're for the judge's but his grudge is against me If i'm such a in' menace, shit doesn't make sense Pete It's all political, if music is literal, and i'm a criminal how the can I raise a girl I couldn't, I wouldn't be fit to, full of shit too, Guerrera, that was fist that hit you... [CHORUS] [Verse 3] They say music can alter moods and talk to Well can it load a gun up for you , and cock too Well if can, then the next time you assault a dude Just tell the judge it was my fault i'll get sued See what these kids do is about us totin' pistols And they want get one cause they think the shit's cool Not knowin' we really just ourselves, we entertainers Of course the shit's our sales, you ignoramus But music is reflection of self, we just explain and then we get our checks the mail It's ed ain't it How we can come from nothing to being able to have any in' thing that wanted why we sing for these kids, who don't have a thing Except for a dream, and a in' rap Who pin-up pictures on their walls all day long Idolize they rappers and know all they songs for anyone who's ever been through shit in their lives Till they sit and they cry at night they'd die Till they throw on a rap record and they sit, and they We're nothin' to you but we're the in' in they eyes That's why seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it we consider these minutes golden And maybe they'll admit it we're gone Just let our spirits live on, through our lyrics that you hear our songs and we SING FOR THE MOMENT