skatepark story

Time spent defiling and defacing,
Gonna shut us down all the same,
When you’re off somewhere else,
Someone else will pay the price,
Wasting your time and mine,
Didn’t bother cleaning up the mess.
Left all the rest of us to fend for ourselves,
So proud and boastful all the while,
What the hell are you rebelling for,
What is it you wanna say, need to share,
How horrible to be middle class and bored,
Waiting on everyone else to clean your mess.
You wanna tag and hang, act like you’re a gang,
Suburban wannabes bitching about turf,
You really wanna play, you really wanna front,
Bring it on, bring it on, see what you got,
You’ll end up shutting it all down,
Screwing it up for everyone, even yourselves.
So what’s important to you, watcha want,
The city threw up this place for you,
You wanna throw it all away,
Playing at being something you’re not,
Aping what you saw on t.v. or on dvd,
Do you even know, even care what you’ve wrought?
This is just a playground, keep your shit to yourself,
You think you know anything about real life,
Didja see your cousin dying at your feet,
Blood on your hands from a beat down,
Coked-up homies flying out of the house,
Armed with Tech-9s and tire irons?
That’s real life and happens everyday,
I come here to skate and just to get away,
Try like hell to forget about the shit I’ve done,
Places I shouldn’t have been, the things I’ve seen,
Awaken from nightmares wanting to scream,
This here isn’t that crucial, nothing that extreme.
Shut up and skate, enjoy being a kid,
Don’t believe the lies and illusions,
Decide for yourself what the hell is real,
Don’t give in to some other s.o.b.’s spiel,
Don’t listen to me, don’t listen to any of them,
The only person you should trust is yourself in the end.