Behind The Musik

June 6th 1975 In Miami Florida was the place I first arrived My parents smiled as I opened my blues eyes 'cause they was newly married and I was their first child My pop was from Jersey my mom was from Miami They met in the bed stuy Brooklyn NYC At Art College and yes they was hippies So I guess that makes me child of the sixties But anyways we didn't stay we moved to plant city Then to Lakeland then to Miami then to Ybor city Living in the hood where things are never ever pretty The only white kid smack dab in the inner city My playground is a parking lot plus a back ally At times I would wake up in the dark with no electricity On top of that we were struggling cause we got no money And going through this inside it's killing me On and on on and on You love goes on On and on on and on I was about 6 when all this was goin on Things began to change everything I knew was up and gone They separated on the weekends I would see my mom Still living with my pops in my hood but not for too long When I was nine they divorced and I was moving on To the suburbs with my mom cause courts said it was wrong For me to be living in the hood with my dad so I'm up and gone Mom remarried and had a baby we living in my grandmas home We living in a neighborhood that's middle class But I felt poor because of some things I didn't have Time passed we moved out but still thing aint right I'm slipping fast at home all I do is fight and yell My grades start to crash plus I ran away from home twice And almost got shot by the cops one single night I started high school and party all the time But little did I know what was gonna happen to my life On and on on and on You love goes on On and on on and on At 15 had a talk with my cousin got me thinking Was there more to life than girls partying and drinking I picked up his bible and started reading revelations For some reason I was crying when I reach the ending Now God was working on me and this was the beginning The first time in a long while that I started praying I had to move again and again and say goodbye to everyone My dad and my friends was once again all up and gone Brand new school by myself sitting all alone Feeling like a fool every single day I 'm coming home But I would listen every night in my bedroom to Gospel radio preach about Christ and just then soon I gave my life to him everything became new I was born again I've never been the same dude Ya took my sin and my guilt and let them blame you And on and on though the years you always came through On and on on and on Your love goes on On and on on and on It was November and the year was 1995 I still remember the very first date with my wife And I was on my own doing shows part time Twenty years old just trying to make something of my life I moved away home when I was only eighteen Broke as a joke making music trying to chase a dream And everybody seems to think I'm crazy except for me But God was there every time to supply my needs I went on staff at a church in the inner city Writing rhymes in my spare time for my CD I mailed my demo to a label named Gotee And out of nowhere Todd Collins up and called me He said he heard my junk and plus he wanted to sign me My heart jumped and plus I want to cry and scream But all I did was hung up the phone quietly and thinked God how he always provided for me On and on on and on Your Love goes on On and on on and on --- Behind The Musik - KJ-52