Alive

We're so influenced by the things around us

That we walk around, and we try to be someone else

We judge people by the clothes they wear and put 'em down

I don't think you would if you knew how it felt

There's certain things that a man can't choose

Try to walk a mile in the other man's shoes

And see how hard things are on the other side

Yeah, just to feel alive

There was a girl named Molly

Who walked down her high school hallway

And everyone would always stare

They would point, and they would laugh at her

And they would talk about her like she wasn't there

But the world doesn't understand

They say hurtful things that people just can't ignore

So one day when her mother walked in her little girl's room

She found her on the floor

And now she's gone, another victim of the morgue

And her family mourns, lighting candles in her name

There's one deceased, but there's two lives lost

Because her mother's at the bottom of

The bottle trying to drown the pain

It doesn't matter what color you are

If you're rich or poor, we're all the same

We got the same damn blood runnin' through our veins, yeah

But it doesn't change

We're so influenced by the things around us

That we walk around, and we try to be someone else

We judge people by the clothes they wear and put 'em down

I don't think you would if you knew how it felt

There's certain things that a man can't choose

Try to walk a mile in the other man's shoes

And see how hard things are on the other side

Yeah, just to feel alive

There was a boy named Tommy

Who got picked on all the time, they would try to push him around

He grew up in the projects

And all he ever wanted was to show them gangsters he was down

Then one night there were shots fired

And one of Tommy's boys got hit, so he swore that he'd get 'em back

He rolled up with his crew

And Tommy ran up first, trying to be cool

So they pulled out and laid him flat

And now he's gone, another victim of the morgue

And his family mourns, lighting candles in his name