Kobi Onyame - Circumstances lyrics

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Circumstances made me who I am

I wasn’t born a violent man

He never sold no drugs, white, no mary jane

Claimed to be a thug, not fight for anything

I see growing up was easy enough

I guess his old man wanted him to have the best of tough

Just him and his big brother, cough, dear mother

Both parents around, love was all around

Or so it seemed, he met a fiend

Then started slowing tainting what was already clean

I mean you can just picture the type: tall, dark, young

…educated right till they found at night his buddy dead for nothing

Parents only saw his bloody hand by stabbing

It has been said treat a child the way he should grow, he’ll never depart

Never depart, forever stays in the heart, if only they knew from the very start

Bridges ain’t shit and the diamonds mean nothing

We only live once, better stand for something

The circumstances make us who we are, we are

Lay down your sticks ‘cause the violence means nothing

We only live once, better stand for something

The circumstances make us who we are, we are

A diamond in the rough, she was young the first time daddy

Huffed and he puffed and blew the house down

Spouse that mom found used to drag her around

Her real dad? Well, he packed a bag then bounced

If only mommy knew daddy stalking her room at night

Could never hear the fight that’s happening almost every night

Screams, ignore the dreams, more like nightmares

It was like having Freddy right there, right there

What didn’t break her made her stronger, crying over life no longer

Feeling no longer somber, let all your …

Sitting by her, beyond her right here, right here

No longer worry through the night, Freddy got caught doing 25 to life

She’s 25 tonight, so thankful for life, that the deepest, darkest fears turned to light

Bridges ain’t shit and the diamonds mean nothing

We only live once, better stand for something

The circumstances make us who we are, we are

Lay down your sticks ‘cause the violence means nothing

We only live once, better stand for something

The circumstances make us who we are, we are