Lyrics
[Verse 1]
This little girl is crying drops the flowers to the floor,
As she see's here father fighting with her mother through the door.
She can't take it anymore, she's had enough she's gotta split,
before she's forced through their divorce, she changes course a little bit
She sits alone-away from home, just by herself so helpless
asking god for his forgiveness, in this mess won't someone help us?...
And Even her Brother's reckless, hanging diamonds on his neckless,
but this time it's left them breathless, catching calls from Bill Collecters..
They're at their lowest moment, man, these callers couldn't have picked it,
It's December 31st, Happy New Year, You're Evicted.
And they all knew that they picked it, They were smelling something wicked,
that was coming-in-this way on extended stay so it was sickning..
So now it leaves them sifting, through some bins down at the shelter,
Forced to live with relatives, man they'd kill for something better.
Living life down in the cellar-they-feel the family's gonna break up,
They need to open up their eyes and realize it time to Wake up.
[Chorus]
Once and awhile we need to (wake up), Wake Up!
There's times in life we should (wake up), Wake Up!
I said, Once and awhile we need to (wake up), Wake Up!
before it leaves us lying down, 6 feet under ground.
[Verse 2]
Now her bigger Brothers crying, cause he's lost his only Homey,
Who he holds within his hands-in-an-Ambulence, he's dying slowly,
Saying please don't leave me lonely, living life with out a reason,
You're the only one who knows me, shit is stifling this season.
Grabs his rifle and he's leaving, weaving in and out of traffic,
bleeding hearts has left em hopeless-His-Magnum Opus will be tradgic.
So his Hope is left in Havoc, had it been for something better,
he'd be laying in his bed, instead his eyes are getting redder.
With a heart that's full of hatred, and his eyes disguised in anger,
leaves him looking for the killer-to-leave 'em hanging like a hanger.
Beats are banging in his Ranger, Smoke is rolling from his nose,
now he see's this so called stranger, strangely time has seemed to froze.
He arose from out the truck and stuck the barrel in his face,
Put his finger on the trigger, as his heart began to race-
His mind departed from this place, he cocked it back and let it go-
and so his sound is drowned in sorrow, singing on his stereo.
[Verse 3]
All this leaves her father crying, he's trying not to complain,
But so far he's falling hard and he can not contain the pain.
That's residing in his brain, he's drained from all that's going on-
This pain is causing so much strain that he's inane, all hope is gone
Now he's turning to the streets to fill the void within his heart,
It leaves him searching for that heat, to give his life a quicker start.
And these dealers play their part, they give him everything he needs.
from Heroin to crack cocaine, straight in his vein the needle bleeds.
So as he's sitting smoking weed just wishing this was all a joke,
It leaves his family digging deeper, As his life goes Up in Smoke.
And as he's lighting up to Toke another tear falls from her eye,
so now his daughter's lost her father, falling harding, has to cry. (has him cry)
What was once a happy household, has been broken down in peices,
Leases, Love and All above have now been Lost within the creases.
Leaves them all in need of Jesus, Father Daughter Son and Wife
Now is the time for them to wake up and to straighten out their life
