Tears Behind Wealth

Dollar Music… Yeah… KojoLuna saaaa…

Chale… Why life?

Why does poverty have to hurt this much?

Because we don’t have money,

they say we smell bad,

They look at our clothes and they laugh when we pass.

Nobody remembers when we used to make them smile,

Nobody remembers we were there for them for a while.

When things were good,

everybody knew my name,

When money was flowing,

everybody came. But when the struggle came,

they started walking away,

The same people I helped don’t remember yesterday.

I smile in public,

but I’m dying inside,

Too many tears that I keep trying to hide.

They see the poverty,

but they don’t see the pain,

They judge the man drowning without knowing his rain.

Tell me, why does life have to be this way?

Why do the poor have to suffer every day?

I keep praying, but I’m losing my strength,

How much more can a broken heart take?

Why life? Why life?

Why you make the poor man cry?

When you have nothing,

even family turns away,

And the people you love don’t respect you anyway.

Why life?

Why life? We are trying just to survive.

If money is the reason they forget who you are,

Then tell me, God,

how far is too far?

Sometimes your own family can disown you,

Just because poverty is standing beside you.

Your own mother may look at you with no respect,

And you start asking,

“What did I do to deserve this?”

I remember the days I was useful to everybody,

Now I have nothing,

suddenly I’m nobody. They don’t remember every time I came through,

They only remember the things I couldn’t do.

Life is painful when your own people reject you,

You give them your heart and they forget you.

You can be a good man with an honest heart,

But poverty can make them tear you apart.

Even in marriage, money can change everything,

A man can love his wife but have nothing to bring.

When the pocket is empty,

respect disappears, And sometimes love gets buried underneath the tears.

But if tomorrow I rise and I make it someday,

Don’t come back and tell me that you always prayed.

Because I remember who stayed when I had nothing,

And I remember who left

when the struggle came.

Why life?

Why life? Why you make the poor man cry?

We don’t want to be poor,

we just want a chance,

We just want to live,

we just want to advance.

Why life? Why life?

One day I’m gonna see the light.

And when my story changes,

I’ll never forget, The nights I had nothing and the tears that

I shed.

One day… One day they will understand.

Poverty is not a character…

Being broke doesn’t mean you’re useless.

We are only fighting to survive.

KojoLuna saaaa… Dollar Music… Why life?