My Life

[Chorus]
 I've got something to tell you
 I believe you, I believe you
 I've got something to tell you
 I believe you really ought to know
 [Hook]
 This is my life [X4]
 (Think about it echoeing in background)
 [Verse 1 - 1Ton]
 It started when my pops moved away from Africa
 When to college in America, and met my mom in Canada
 Interracial couple, no one would date 'em double
 That's about the time my momma's stomach grew a bubble
 I was still inside, I wasn't black, I wasn't white
 But to the world I was still a nigga, just a little light
 No time for ignorance, I just gotta live my life
 Treat everybody with respect and hope that they can get it right
 'Cause when I was a youth, my parents moved to California
 Said that I would understand it more when I became older
 The south was segregated, the East was way behind
 It's not the color of your skin, but what's inside your mind
 The motto that I kept in every house a nigga slept
 On every block that I roamed, on every spot I called home
 I went to Jr. High with all the Asians and the Blacks
 Learned to give respect and expect to get it back
 Every time I meet a different race I try to learn somethin'
 In the Barrio, eat burritos like it's nothin'
 Keep an open mind, got a lot left to do
 Learned to surf from a nigga, learned to rap from a Jew
 Gotta spread knowledge every time I'm on stage
 This is the book of life, every day's another page
 So when my time is up and I fall over dead
 I hope I was successful like im gettin in your head.--~~~~PILLZBARRY
 [Hook]
 This is my life [X4]
 (Think about it echoeing in background)
 [Chorus]
 I've got something to tell you
 I believe you, I believe you
 I've got something to tell you
 I believe you really ought to know
 [Verse 2 - Underrated]
 They wanna keep us divided so that we're easy to control
 Color this, color that, there ain't no color in my soul
 I don't separate, nope, I definitely don't discriminate
 Fuck David Koresh, and fuck the KKK
 'Cause my parents were hippies, teach me peace and love
 Taught me all people were equal, don't be mean to no one
 So I took the information, and when I watched when I was young
 I lot of kids in my classes acted racist and dumb
 Only a handful of black kids that went to my school
 I overheard them being called the n-word by the cool
 And when my back's turned, I'm a money hungry Jew
 I didn't blame 'em, they just had an ignorant point of view
 I'm lucky I got white friends, Puerto Ricans, and Indians
 And do business on a mission with a black dude and Mexican
 No questions; treat each other like a family is how we livin'
 So when I rap, understand I wanna reach the children
 We gotta open up our mind like Cheech & Chong
 In a world full of Jimmy the Greek's and Rush Limbaugh's
 They're tellin' lies and they love to generalize
 I believe don't believe in nothin' unless you've seen it with your own eyes
 [Hook]
 This is my life [X8]
 (Think about it echoeing in background)
 [Chorus X2]
 I've got something to tell you
 I believe you, I believe you
 I've got something to tell you
 I believe you really ought to know