Sometimes I look outside, 
It makes me wanna cry, 
I look at my suffering people 
And I ask myself why? 
  
This can't be life 
This can't be real 
This can't be what I'm seeing 
This can't be what I feel 
  
I sit and hope for it to be a bad dream 
But then I wake up 
Step outside, and there's a sad fiend 
It hurts inside, to see mothers all alone 
Kids on sidewalks smothered in covers 
all skin and bones 
  
This can't be life 
This can't be real 
This can't be what I'm seeing 
This can't be what I feel 
  
I neva seen my pops 
But I always seem to see things pop 
Seem to see dreams stop 
Been beat by the meanest cop 
  
But that wont stop me from reaching for success 
I was told in school, to always do my best 
But I was neva told, the meaning of my flesh 
Who is Timbooktu? 
I never answered that question on a Test? 
  
This can't be life 
This can't be real 
This can't be what I'm seeing 
This can't be what I feel 
  
They say keep ya enemies as close as ya friend 
Because they will quickly toast to your end 
Instead of hate, spread love from within 
That's the differance between Heaven and Sin 
  
I'm a little older, 
and nothing's changed in my life 
So its time 
I try to make a closer range with CHRIST 

This can't be what I'm seeing, 
This can't be what I feel 
Because I wanna do somehting different with my life 
I can't be real?