Tell It Like It Is - Stephanie McKay, DJ Spinna

People everywhere so disillusioned

Of the way the world is today

Everybody’s talking

'bout who did what to who

How and when it got that way

I’m looking for an answer

Sometimes I want to quit

But I still got to try

When I see a baby girl

Caught up in that world

It brings a tear to my eye

She may not want to hear what i got to say

I was guilty of making that same mistake

Standing here trying to tell her what its about

Does she hear me

I remember his name from back in the day

Holding me huggin me loving just the same

Used to swear that I was his only one

Then I gave him some

And it was done

I tell it like it is

(tell it like it is ooh ooh)

Tell it like it is

(Oh oH Oh Oh Oh I got to Tell it like it is)

OH I got to tell it like it is

(Tell it like it is ooh ooh ooh)

Tell it like it is

OH OH Oh Oh tell it like it is

Read it in the paper

A young brother

With a bright future’s been shot and killed

Saw it on the news

A brothers been accused

How’s that supposed to make me feel

Pain deep in my heart

God please hear my cry

When I see a young brother lost in the world

It brings a tear to my eye

You may not want to hear what i got to say

But I witness the same old things everyday

Precious lies, family ties

Being thrown away

Do you feel me

I remember the good times from back in the day

Laughing joking thought it would never change

Mothers cry, children die

This is not the way

Now we’re putting flowers at his grave

I’ll Tell it like it is

(tell it like it is ooh oh ooh)

I’m gonna tell it like it is

(Oh oh oh Tell it like it is)

Oh I 've got to tell it like it is

(Tell it like it is oooh ooh oh)

I’m gonna tell it like it is

Tell it like it is