Sidelines, Pt. 1

Where do I begin?

Where do I begin?

Oh my, oh my

Time now don't have no lie

I'm scared to share my own mind

And I don't know why, know why, know why, know why

Too powerful

Just words that made those towers fall

Yeah, quite a story the ends tells

I just pray that it ends well

Wrote so many songs for my ex girl

But I never said a thing about Grenfell

And I never said a thing about Brexit

And I never said a thing about Syria

Or Libya, or Congo

The list goes on, so where do I start?

So many things that I think about

That I never said a thing about

That's the thing about life

You live and you learn

The vision's a little bigger now

So let me say what I see

Highs and lows like waves in the sea

Guys on the roads got knives in their coats

And I just wanna ask what they wanna be

'Cause I don't believe anybody dreams

Of being a killer, really I wanna make peace

Maybe I'm naive or out of touch with these streets

I don't wanna retweet

Man wanna skrrt and they wanna beep beep

Run up on an opp block like meep meep

Running the roads until lives get lost like some of my bros

And who holds the blame? Everyone is involved

The teacher, the preacher, the mother at home

The absent fathers that come and they go

I can't wash my hands of none of it though

'Cause I been sitting on the sidelines

I just been sitting on the sidelines

I just been sitting on the sidelines

Where do I begin?

I just been sitting on the sidelines

Even though I'm tryna get my mind right

Where do I begin?

I just been sitting on the sidelines