are you happy with your life?
you make just enough to scrape by you pay the rent,
and your check is spent where did last weekend go you wasted
all your flow and you dont remember
where it went drinking smoking cigarettes working
but you're still in debt thinking losing self-esteem.
how can this be, happening?
you might have the temporary,
superficial happiness that you buy with money you don't have.
do you tell yourself,
it's just the first time or maybe the last time which is your circumstance life
is not a job or a career.
living is not smoking and drinking beer a gift to receive
and not to take the free thinking choice is yours to make

A boy alone, so far from home
Endless rooftops from my window
I felt the gloom of empty rooms
On rainy afternoons
Sometimes in confusion
I felt so lost and disillusioned
Innocence gave me confidence
To go up against reality

[Chorus:]
All the same we take our chances
Laughed at by time
Tricked by circumstances
Plus ca change
Plus c'est la meme chose
The more that things change
The more they stay the same

Now I've gained some understanding
Of the only world that we see
Things that I once dreamed of
Have become reality
These walls that still surround me
Still contain the same old me
Just one more who's searching for
A world that ought to be

[Chorus]

Come, and wash away
The sins of two of us
They're creeping out
Crawling out
Searching for some decency
Sold, my soul away
To keep you coming back
Calling back
They told me it was lunacy
Desensitize me, you fool I can be
Anything you want me to
Just sit right back, are you with me, with me
If it happens to me
It'll happen to you sometime
Are you happy to see?
I learned my lesson too
Don't hesitate
You see me reaching out
Calling out
Is it all about your place up in society?
Last effort
Hooked and sold
But then you threw be back
Within a flash
You took out the trash
And wiped your hands above my face
Desensitize me, you fool I can be
Anything you want me to
Just sit right back, are you with me, with me
If it happens to me
It'll happen to you sometime
Are you happy to see?
You learn your lesson too
Cause it comes in time
Yes it comes in time
You'll learn your lesson too
Comes in time
Goes away
Leaves you blind
Rapes your mind
And it strips you of your sanity
Comes in time
Goes away
Leaves you blind
And it strips you of your sanity
If it happens to me

Chorus:
Circumstances made me what I am
Was I born a violent man
Circumstances made me what I am
Everyone should understand

Circumstances made me what I am
Was I born a violent man
Circumstances made me what I am
Everyone should know

Verse 1:
May sound strange, might sound foolish
But things ain't getting better
Everyday another fall victim to the beretter
Why is there so much violence
Killing we one another
Let us learn to live and let that light shine brighter
Bad influence through influence the youth dem get slaughter
As bad as badman use to be
Dem respect di father
Is like no eyes no realize she
Times get harder
Mi talk all night with all mi might
But still is laughter

Chorus

Verse 2:
Him say, when I try to cope
Tell mi self there is hope
It seems like the biggest joke
Eh eh,
And as I put down the gun
Still dollars must run
All now employment can't come
Have mi a jam and a cool
Want go back in a school
The system lick mi
There's no hope for those
Who have not from the slum
Take di little much we have
Still hunting we down
I beg unu show some love
Unu wi get back, he replied

Circumstances made me what I am
Was I born a violent man
Circimstances made me what I am
And everyone should know

Verse 3:
Well a no little cry
Mama cry, papa cry too
She warn the bwoy with all heart
And that couldn't do
Now dem find him dead with a Smith and Wesson
Six weeks and change
Now mi hear him missing
Why so much violence, too much violence
It hurts my soul and I won't keep silent
Circumstances made me what I am
That was his reply I cry

Circumstances made me what I am
Everyone should know
May sound strange, might sound foolish
But things ain't getting better

Verse 4:
Everyday another fall victim to the beretter
Why is there so much violence
Killing we one another
Let us learn to live and let that light shine brighter
Bad influence through influence the youth dem get slaughter
As bad as badman use to be
Dem respect di father
Is like no eyes no realize she
Times get harder
Mi talk all night with all mi might
But still is laughter