The Kids - B.o.B, Janelle Monáe

Drug boy steady show time

Streets don’t give a damn

They’re filled with such pollution

The kids don’t stand a chance

We’re trapped inside the matrix

Forced to play our hand

We’re filled with so much hatred

The kids don’t stand a chance

I said the kids don’t, the kids don’t stand, the kids don’t stand a chance

I said the kids don’t, the kids don’t stand, the kids don’t stand a chance

Well, since I was planted at birth

I abandoned my own planet and I landed on earth

As a kid I never understood what I observed

Some of it was strange but most of it disturbed me

Always in detention for the lack of my attention

You could call it deficit, really I just didn’t listen

And I was always missin'

The teachers like, where is Bobby Simons?

But tryna get a record deal is all I can I remember

It’s funny 'cause looking back on the past

That I had all my days in the streets tryna prove that I was bad

I still elevated to the level that I’m at

Still elevated to the level that I’m at

We’re trapped inside the matrix

Forced to play our hand

We’re fill with so much hatred

The kids don’t stand a chance

I said the kids don’t, the kids don’t stand, the kids don’t stand a chance

I said the kids don’t, the kids don’t stand, the kids don’t stand a chance

Sometimes it’s hard to grow

While living in fear of the unknown

How can he ever give love

When no love is in his heart?

A child can barely sleep at night

To worried bout tomorrow

And what it beholds,

He drowns of

Deep down in sorrows

Will you run or will you share your light

Tell a story or live in strife

See it when we’re given hope

That we know that we can grow

We’re trapped inside the matrix

Forced to play our hand

We’re fill with so much hatred

The kids don’t stand a chance

I said the kids don’t, the kids don’t stand, the kids don’t stand a chance

I said the kids don’t, the kids don’t stand, the kids don’t stand a chance