Brain Cell

You was manifested in an egg, developed in a womb
 Born out of a moon belly, first day of doom
 Crying out like you wanna be put back in there
 Maybe later in an incubator for more care
 Alone, get to your home and your cribs set
 Put behind bars and you ain't even lived yet
 On through the playpens, when will this fate end?
 Parents can't make rent, money from the safe spent
 Got building blocks out, making a house
 Mama with her cheese blocks setting traps for a mouse
 You watching her same loving hands that absorb pain, kill
 You're learning that life's more than a board game
 Still better line up the cubes in your rubix right
 Piece the puzzle together, there's holes in your views of life
 Only for sure thing is years, but you gotta fight
 Keep the wind to your right or hit the pen flying kites
 Living in the world no different from a cell
 Living in the world no different from a cell
 Living in the world no different from a cell
 Living in the world no different from a cell
 Walk up the rectangle steps, take a seat on the bus
 Backpack, pack that sack meal for your lunch
 Four cornered blackboard makes you act bored
 No use paying attention, now you facing suspension
 So its back on the block and the calling you square
 Try to get the label off but you're glued to the cable box
 Closed caption clothes and fashion, so attractive
 As you lay on a box spring and old mattress
 Choices blocked off, childhood gone
 Just future cubicles and retirement homes
 But you can't see it happening, live savagely
 Only thing you put passion in is zig-zag packaging
 Swallow Oxycontins to find solace
 You need a fix so you hit some blockhead for his wallet
 But the gun jams and the cops come to take ya
 And now that bullet ain't the only thing that's caught up in a chamber (chamber)
 Living in the world no different from a cell
 Living in the world no different from a cell
 Living in the world no different from a cell
 Living in the world no different from a cell
 From a cellular phone to a cell on a phone
 Or trapped in confession seeking blessing trying to atone
 With no more casual pounds with the hand on the clock
 Now locked in city block working Lucifers lot
 Down to box for success, is that true or is it not?
 In ya room coping with stress
 Smoking Kools from out that box
 Shit ain't cool, in detention no flinching, that shit ain't school
 Cold sell for a quick sale, but April Fool!
 Now your case is on the docket to face a box of your peers
 And them bars they trying to take you to
 Won't be nothing like Cheers
 Just years upon years, till your last box is near
 Without your participation incarceration ain't clear
 If the plots you got are flagrant
 It's best that you leave e'm vacant
 Cause there's cells in your mind, that'll free you every time
 Even the tales thrown in these bars can't be confined
 Just be patient, nothing in life is by design
 Living in the world no different from a cell
 Living in the world no different from a cell
 Living in the world no different from a cell
 Living in the world no different from a cell
 I recognise that sadness I'm seeing in your eyes
 You wonder if it's love you feel or just a comfortable compromise