(Intro: News Reporters)

Verse 1

It happened in Colorado, I just wanted to see
a movie out with my brother, and batman up on the screen
I remember heath ledger, the joker he had me talkin

like how are they makin a third I questioned how could they top it?
I was counting the months, weeks were going by
I was excited preparing with tickets ahead of time

and I can re-live my past with comic books on my mind
and I can re-live it now, with comics still on my mind
Batman he was my hero my brother was only 9

I was my brothers hero, so how did I let him die?
You see, you see? these costume's can't heal
cause you cannot wear a mask to disguise how you feel

I was ready for the movie but along came crime
I was in the right place, but at the wrong damn time
and momma would always ask why we gotta go late

Why we gotta be the first? why we couldn't just wait
why we couldn't just think of re-scheduling in the summer
I was held responsible watching my little brother

but I couldn't do that, momma I couldn't do that
and even though it's not my fault momma I couldn't look back...
.....I couldn't react, I didn't know that it was coming so I couldn't see that

I would of threw him to the ground ensuring his safe keep
I would of threw myself in front it telling god to take me...
But let me make comparisons

I was just like Mr. Wayne, minus out flaring benz
Both of us had family taken
from us, it's a little boys call

so the Dark Night Rise when a little boy fall

(Hook)

Goodbye goodbye
so long farewell
but it's not the end of the chapter


Goodbye goodbye
so long farewell

I'll see you again in the after life

Verse 2

It happened in Connecticut, younger kids are delicate
We were sitting learnin bout the subject in a predicate
I would share my lunch with you and always save the pieces

The only thing that's on my mind is spongebob and recess
and I was siting picturing my brother on the swing
while I push him from behind it got warmer in the spring

but I couldn't picture him, cuz the winter barely passed
n he passed before the winter, so this winter was his mass
and I was at that funeral to traumatized to look

Columbine, Virginia Tech and now its sandy hook
It's crazy. they say the good die young
but I just wish I was the hero when the good guys come

I just wished they stopped the murder of our brothers and sons
it's elementary, they don't even know about guns
I never thought my little brother would be the victim of one

I never thought that there'd be shootings but the damage is done
you see we need better parents, counselors psychologists
social workers in our towns, cities with neurologists

I aint sayin all of this just let me make comparisons
cuz I was just like Mr. Wayne, minus out flaring benz
Both of us had family taken

from us when a little boy call
so the Dark Night Rise when a little boy fall


(Hook)
Goodbye goodbye
so long farewell

but it's not the end of the chapter

Goodbye goodbye

so long farewell
I'll see you again in the after life


Outro
But who am I to say truth behind?
In the eye of a nuisance I'm
defined a depressed guy
who in time commits suicide

in my mind am I rapping why?
For money, attention, dimes?
I'm not rapping for me and you
I'm rapping for you and I..


(2Pac from "Changes")

We gotta make a change...
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live

And let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
What we gotta do, to survive.