when thugs cry..
now i lay me down to sleep
i pray the lord my guns to keep
if i die before i wake
i pray the lord my soul to take
god (?), when thugs cry, too much is hard
[chorus: singers]
oh why, children send your child off to die
in the streets of chalk where they lie
let no wrongs cry out when thugs cry
dear god..
oh why, does it have to be this way, our
children of today won[("thugs cry") on line 6, first time only]
[2pac over chorus]
i shed tattooed tears for years
for my dead homeboys and my prison peers
yall aint never heard my cries
now you wonder why would you die?