Do You

Do You...

You don't understand what it's like

To grow up on the streets

You don't know what it's like

To act tough but be weak

You don't get what it's like

To be abandoned

You never felt what it's like

To have nothing to eat

You don't understand what it's like

To be thrown in the snow

In a tank top and shorts

You don't know what it's like

To steal to survive

And provide for your mama's kids

You don't get what it's like

To be locked out of the house

While running away from your "friends"

You never felt what it's like

To have no friends.

Can't hang out on the weekends

I've been through it

Tried to let go

I've seen stuff

That you never see on TV shows

All the negatives in life

All the pain and strife

Things don't end happily in the hood

Things are misunderstood

You're from the suburbs

Where everyone's a nerd

So you don't understand...do you?