You teach me this, you teach me that

But you don't teach me how to react to violence, police brutality, pregnancies, and STDs when they're all around me

Theirs suicides i’m tryna survive, in a city of madness and crime

You tell me to find X

But can't give me an example of how to handle

a gun in my face, this baby on my waist, fingerprints with a trace, back to me

When these drugs are offered

When these kids are tortured

Queen Elizabeth and Macbeth can’t teach me how to not be beat

Am i being beat because its me?

My vision is blurry and my mind is straying

I can't hear what you're saying

Teach me how to take care of me

How to save my parents when their about to OD

A woman was raped did she deserve it?

I feel like sh*t am i worthless?

I look in the mirror to see the internal scars

The jagged edges of my broken heart

Tell me how to deal with that

How to deal with self harm and racial profiling

How to deal with death threats and being divided

World War I won't make me stop taking these pills, won't make me heal, won't pay these bills, feed these kids, help these people to stop being homeless

Are we hopeless?

All i wanna be is open

But being judged is inevitable

And being me is questionable

Teach me how to cope and keep hope

Teach these boys how to be gentlemen;

These girls how to be independent women

To stand on our own 2 feet

and not be defeated by the facade of society

They say we're too young to understand but your too old to know that this is the life we live

If I didn't understand I couldn't be living it