its real

its real down here
where I am
and I don’t have the luxury
to care about anything but surviving
where I am I can taste the concrete
its not just asphalt under my feet
and I can smell the fear
its real palpable down here
so excuse me if I seem not to care
about what happens to you up there
because up there is where I escape to
but down here is where I live
and down here its hella real
down here we eat prisoners
just to stay alive
down here we do what we gotta
just to survive