Have you ever prayed to the night sky?
Under one of them cold street lights?
Watched another stolen car drive then lose your hope and say "This is where I'll die"?
But you try to say you know me
But you try to say you're from my world
Well, have you ever gone to sleep to the sounds of the gunshots, sirens, and violence all alone?
They want to break me down I hope I can hold my ground
Your world is MTV Spring breaks and ecstasy
You got your hopes and you'll get your dreams
Well, that choice wasn't there for me
My world remains unseen by you
Poverty and no family,
Broken homes and broken dreams,
I fall upon the thorns of life I bleed
They want to break me down I won't back down
They try to break me down I hope I can hold my ground
I ain't I your kind of white I ain't that kind of white
I'll never be your kind of white, I'll never be your kind 'cause you made me outcast
I ain't your kind of white I've never been your kind of white
I ain't that kind of white 'cause I'm a lowlife outcast piece of white trash
Five years on down the road (you've got) two kids and a high paying job,
(with a) picket fence and a college degree
Well, that choice wasn't there for me
This path on which I walk: it ain't a game and it ain't all talk
This is all I ever had
This is all they ever let me have
I ain't ever been nor will I ever be another blind eye in society
I seen the way it was for the people like me
I seen the way it was for the families so
Have you ever prayed to the night sky?
Under one of them cold street lights?
Watched another stolen car drive by and lost your hope and said "This is where I'll die"?
I ain't I your kind of white I ain't that kind of white
I'll never be your kind of white, I'll never be your kind 'cause you made me outcast
I ain't your kind of white I've never been your kind of white
I ain't that kind of white 'cause I'm a lowlife outcast piece of white trash