Artist: B.o.B f/ Janelle Monáe
Album:  B.o.B Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray
Song:   The Kids
Typed by: PDog1217@aol.com

[Chorus - B.o.B] - w/ Janelle Monáe ad libs
Drug boys steady shootin, the streets don't give a damn
They're filled with such pollution, the kids don't stand a chance

We're trapped inside the matrix, forced to play our hand
We're filled with so much hatred, the kids don't stand a chance
I said the kids don't, the kids don't stand, the kids don't stand a chance
I said the kids don't, the kids don't stand, the kids don't stand a chance

[Verse 1 - B.o.B]
Well, since I was planted at birth
I abandoned my old planet and I landed on Earth
As a kid I never understood what I observed and
Some of it was strange but most of it disturbed me
Always in detention for the lack of my attention
You can call it deficit, really I just didn't listen
And I was always missin, the teachers' like "where is Bobby Simmons?"
But tryin to get a record deal is all I can remember
It's funny, 'cause lookin back on the past that I had
All my days in the streets tryin to prove that I was bad
I still elevated to the level that I'm at
(Still elevated to the level that I'm at)

[Chorus] - w/ Janelle Monáe ad libs

[Verse 2 - Janelle Monáe]
Sometimes it's hard to grow, while livin in fear of the unknown
How can he ever give love? When no love is in his heart
A child can barely sleep at night, too worried about tomorrow
And what it beholds, he drowns out, deep down in his sorrows
Will you run or will you share your life? Tell our story, to live and try
See it's when we're given hope, that we know that we can grow

[Chorus] - w/ Janelle Monáe ad libs and her singing the last 2 lines