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Keep Ya Head Up*
Tupac

Little somethin' for my godson Elijah

And a little girl named Corinne


Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice

I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots

I give a holler to my sisters on welfare

Tupac cares, if don't nobody else care


And uhh, I know they like to beat ya down a lot

When you come around the block brothas clown a lot

But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up

Forgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up


And when he tells you you ain't nutting don't believe him

And if he can't learn to love you you should leave him

'Cause sista you don't need him

And I ain't trying to gas ya up, I just call em how I see em


You know it makes me unhappy, what's that

When brothas make babies

And leave a young mother to be a pappy

And since we all came from a woman


Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman

I wonder why we take from our women

Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?

I think it's time to kill for our women


Time to heal our women, be real to our women

And if we don't we'll have a race of babies

That will hate the ladies, that make the babies

And since a man can't make one


He has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one

So will the real men get up

I know you're fed up ladies, but keep your head up


Keep ya head up, ooo child things are gonna get easier

Ooo child things are gonna get brighter

Keep ya head up, ooo child things are gonna get easier

Ooo child things are gonna get brighter


Aiyyo, I remember Marvin Gaye, used to sing ta me

He had me feeling like black was tha thing to be

And suddenly tha ghetto didn't seem so tough

And though we had it rough, we always had enough


I huffed and puffed about my curfew and broke the rules

Ran with the local crew, and had a smoke or two

And I realize momma really paid the price

She nearly gave her life, to raise me right


And all I had ta give her was my pipe dream

Of how I'd rock the mic, and make it to tha bright screen

I'm trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents

It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent


And in the end it seems I'm headpin for tha pen

I try and find my friends, but they're blowing in the wind

Last night my buddy lost his whole family

It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity


It seems tha rain'll never let up

I try to keep my head up, and still keep from getting wet up

You know it's funny when it rains it pours

They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor


Say there ain't no hope for the youth and the truth is

It ain't no hope for tha future

And then they wonder why we crazy

I blame my mother, for turning my brother into a crack baby


We ain't meant to survive, 'cause it's a setup

And even though you're fed up

Huh, ya got to keep your head up


Keep ya head up, ooo child things are gonna get easier

Ooo child things are gonna get brighter

Keep ya head up, ooo child things are gonna get easier

Ooo child things are gonna get brighter


And uhh, to all the ladies having babies on they own

I know it's kinda rough and you're feeling all alone

Daddy's long gone and he left you by ya lonesome

Thank the Lord for my kids, even if nobody else want em


'Cause I think we can make it, in fact, I'm sure

And if you fall, stand tall and comeback for more

'Cause ain't nutting worse than when your son

Wants to know why his daddy don't love him no mo'


You can't complain you was dealt this

Hell of a hand without a man, feeling helpless

Because there's too many things for you to deal with

Dying inside, but outside you're looking fearless


While tears, is rolling down your cheeks

Ya steady Chopin things don't all down this week

'Cause if it did, you couldn't take it, and don't blame me

I was given this world I didn't make it


And now my son's getten older and older and cold

From having the world on his shoulders

While the rich kids is driving Benz

I'm still trying to hold on to my surviving friends


And it's crazy, it seems it'll never let up, but

Please you got to keep your head up


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