Look around you and tell me what you see
As I look around and see the life, the pain and misery
The lack of chemistry, the lack of sending a message
Maybe we're not inheriting the lessons that were endowed
To make us proud..I see reverse
So much shit is flipped upside down
Whether it happens to be our life or the world that we circle around
How can we recoop from being blindsided by the truth?


Look around you
I see beef that leads to violence
Only to get a glimpse of attention
Look around you as we witness key leaders at the G20 summit
Have major differences on how shit should be ran
As we continue to take risk on the expense of economies
That happens to be on the backburner
No one cares enough to exercise some type of truse
Look around you as you see rallies and mosh pits of hate groups
No one won't stand up and engineer a message that's crystal clear
So our minds are showered with dust as if we lived in Sydney
So it's only right for Byrd to stand tall
Carrying the load on my broad shoulders
Like a real soldier as real as they come


If you look around
Marriage is crashing worse than the Dow Jones
It's like we're sniffing for the unknowns
To why couples house is not their home
A broken marriage is a monopoly
Half of the property
Half of the accounts
That amounts to the blood, sweat and tears when kids are interfered
What happen to a family that prays together stays together
Whether thru the thick and thin....
But then again, shit happens under complex circumstances
This is why some folks don't remember the word second chances

Look around you
As we try to live life to the fullest
From the block to the hood,
We see number of brother and sistas slained
Falling victim to a homcide without a future to gain
A midlife crisis that generates poverty
Another victim falls in the system
Some can hold their weight to keep their families straight
Some live on Section 8 just enough to keep a roof over their head
Unless you're hustling, trappin and grinding, how else you making ends meet
To keep yourself avoiding the unemployment line
Where I know some of us been there from time to time
Just got to pull ourselves together, especially in the worst weather
And make it happen so we can see the joy of our kids laughing

Look around you, art is losing it's mainstream
Whether the art of music or art with the pen
It's not like we can rewind time and do this shit again
Sad to see rappers turn into singers
Who sending a unfashionable trend
By wearing your girlfriends tight jeans
Without making your trend breathe
So continue to suffocate in shame as you bring a bad rep to the game
(hold on, it stops there)
Writers that turn into biters
Who bitch, cry and moan as if they need their pacifiers
Only to feel the desire to ego their mind a little higher
Just be you..that writer who bring out true thoughts with the pen

But if we continue to look around
You have folks tell you don't look around
Only to look one way like a one way street
Walking in one direction is one way to success
And that's walking with God
And yes even at our eye level we have folks dancing with the devil
Nor simply the ones who don't believe
Because to them it's hereditary
Because in life, we look at one condition...
Look around you people....
ARE YOU LIVING OR JUST EXISTING????