Numb

verse 1

see the same cats in the Chi
everyday passing me by
ask for a little change, while they smirk
and they just laugh on the side
y'all don't start me crying
God will you start replying
cause as soon as exit our mother's womb
then we started dying
so is life one big joke
with a heckler named hope?
With a gesture to perplex us
full of snide rimshot notes
sure seem that way to me
with a spotlight on thee
walked in late to the show and
I'm stuck with a front row seat
use money just to get high
use money just to get drunk?
know it seems that way but
really use money just to get numb

chorus

from the pain, across the game
the loss, the drain
the cost, the gain
of this
life, often dismissed
as nothing more than a crumb
Lord, this life is no fun
cause I am just a bum
forever shunned
thumbed, over and over
just a crumb, a bum

verse 2

see me lost and i'm starving
see me toss through the garbage
see me stumble through the streets
with a beep-beep launched from the car horn
I get kicked to the curb
shot with an angry word
cops on the block wanna lock me
scream, but I can't be heard
so I just cry inside
might as well climb the sky
cause I die every winter time
when the Chitown climate dives
all I got left is faith
all I got left is hate
all I got left to say
no wait, let me please explain
please don't roll yo eyes
please don't walk on by
wasn't always a bum
why's this world so numb?

chorus

bridge

I've dreamed of what its like to dream
I've been loyal to life but its not to me
I thought life was my most cherished thing
But now i see life, gave up on me
So now I seek revenge

verse 3

mind state is now a shelter for cynicism
no amount of morphine
no kind of penicillin
could heal em'
cause this feeling I'm feeling
is feeling like I'm bitten with venom
I'm filled with trigger intentions
to (murder)
everything that I believed
everything that I conceived as the truth
memories been bereaved
under siege from my youth
I don't blink
I don't think
I just bleed through the juice of my drank
confused and I'm blank
so I'm choosing the plank
as I walk to the sky
life never responds
hope death will reply
life never responds
hope death will reply

I'm feeling numb

I bet you death will reply
life never responded to me why try