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"Life in care ain't easy, believe me..."
Life in care ain't easy, believe me
Pain in my chest, yeah, it cuts so deeply
Coming into care, man, it tears you apart
Rips up your world, puts a hole in your heart
They move you round, don't ask, don't warn
New bed, new rules, by the time it's dawn
People think we're thugs but they've never seen
The nights we cried just to feel clean
We're not trouble, we're not crime
We've been hurt a thousand times
Still we grind, still we rise
Got that fire in our eyes
Through the rain, through the pain
We're still standing in the game
You can judge, you can stare
But you don't know life in care
Black bag life, "Pack it now, let's go,"
No goodbye kiss, just the car on slow
Faces I don't know in a brand new place
Learn to lock the pain, keep a blank old face
We work twice as hard just to prove our worth
Build a future they said we'd never birth
Achieve things early, before we hit twenty
Stuff most can't claim in their thirties, not plenty
Found my fam in the kids like me
Lost but we fight, yeah, we're tryna break free
We share our food, we share our scars
Dream of freedom, counting stars
We're not trouble, we're not crime
We've been hurt a thousand times
Still we grind, still we rise
Got that fire in our eyes
Through the rain, through the pain
We're still standing in the game
You can judge, you can stare
But you don't know life in care
Yeah, we rise, no disguise, we don't beg for the seat
We just grind, put the time, till our goals feel complete
From the nights with no light to the heights they can't see
We're the proof that the truth is we make history
Every door that they close, we just kick it in clean
Turn the pain into flames, build a life from the dream
We achieve by eighteen what they pray for in their prime