“A Wife, Three Children, And A Baby On The Way”

A wife, three children and a baby on the way
Is all I have to my name
Everyday is the same old thing
Everyday I question my masculinity
I can't give my wife the finer things in life
I can only give her me
I don't have a job to provide for my family
I can only supply love
No one ever told me about infinite possibilities
No one ever gave me a chance
Educated in the worst of conditions
Manipulated to believe
That everything I had was all I would ever have
The cruel life of cool suckered me in
Always being on the run
Never knowing if I would end up dead the next day
Three bullet holes and a broken spirit later
I realized my life was headed in the wrong direction
So I made the conscious decision to change
I cleaned up my act
But couldn't clean up my mess
I tried to find work
But I ended up back to where I started
On the run and no where to turn
Now I'm trapped within these four walls
Trying to figure out what I'm going to do now.