Diamonds

I wrote a letter to a rich man

It said you a bitch man

Spend your life looking for a diamond

'Cause a diamond don't crumble

We all die man

We all die man

That don't mean that it's today

Wasted life looking for a diamond

'Cause a diamond don't crumble

Poor man's version of a poor man

My name ain't written in the sky man

I'm not what you painted on my skin man

I'm not what you painted on my mind

Poor man's version of a poor man

I'm not what you painted in your eyes man

A wise man's version of a lie man

Spend your life searching for the sky man

Spend your life learning how to fly man

Waste your life looking for a diamond

Waste your life looking for a diamond

Waste your life searching for a diamond

Wouldn't wanna be a rich man!

I'm not how I'm painted on your eyes man

I'm not what you painted on my mind

And I'm not what you said I'd be in time

I'm better than you said I'd be and I

Ain't here to pardon your lies and I

Ain't here to be part of your lives and I

Ain't getting caught in your rhymes

Body your lies, father your time, to follow ya' uh

Call it what it is

The blind leading the blind

The blind leading the blind

Or take a look and find what you find

Poor man's version of a poor man

A blind man's portrait of the door

A blind man's portrait of azure

What's a blind man's portrait of the poor?

I'm not my credit report uh

I'm not your lack of remorse uh

I'm not your decisions to divorce

And it ain't our fault

We're the lost generation

City blocks filled in with gentrification

And your mistakes filled in with

Our miseducation like Lauren Hill

These seeds planted

Killing our youth like the morning pill

Makes us abort our will