Kobi Onyame - Circumstances Lyrics
Circumstances made me who I amI wasn’t born a violent manHe never sold no drugs, white, no mary janeClaimed to be a thug, not fight for anythingI see growing up was easy enoughI guess his old man wanted him to have the best of toughJust him and his big brother, cough, dear motherBoth parents around, love was all aroundOr so it seemed, he met a fiendThen started slowing tainting what was already cleanI mean you can just picture the type: tall, dark, young…educated right till they found at night his buddy dead for nothingParents only saw his bloody hand by stabbingIt has been said treat a child the way he should grow, he’ll never departNever depart, forever stays in the heart, if only they knew from the very startBridges ain’t shit and the diamonds mean nothingWe only live once, better stand for somethingThe circumstances make us who we are, we areLay down your sticks ‘cause the violence means nothingWe only live once, better stand for somethingThe circumstances make us who we are, we areA diamond in the rough, she was young the first time daddyHuffed and he puffed and blew the house downSpouse that mom found used to drag her aroundHer real dad? Well, he packed a bag then bouncedIf only mommy knew daddy stalking her room at nightCould never hear the fight that’s happening almost every nightScreams, ignore the dreams, more like nightmaresIt was like having Freddy right there, right thereWhat didn’t break her made her stronger, crying over life no longerFeeling no longer somber, let all your …Sitting by her, beyond her right here, right hereNo longer worry through the night, Freddy got caught doing 25 to lifeShe’s 25 tonight, so thankful for life, that the deepest, darkest fears turned to lightBridges ain’t shit and the diamonds mean nothingWe only live once, better stand for somethingThe circumstances make us who we are, we areLay down your sticks ‘cause the violence means nothingWe only live once, better stand for somethingThe circumstances make us who we are, we are
