[Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson - Winter Song] 
They say that things just can not grow 
Beneath the winter snow, 
Or so I have been told. 

[Nas - Street Dreams] 
Growin up [bad word]  lookin for luck dreamin 
Scopin the large niggaz beamin, check what I'm seein' 
Cars, ghetto stars pushin ill Europeans 
G'n, heard about them old timers OD'n 
Young, early 80's, throwin rocks at the crazy lady 
Worshippin every word them rope rockin niggaz gave me 
The street raised me up, givin a [bad word] 
I thought Jordan's and a gold chain was livin it up 
I knew the dopes, the pushers, the addicts everybody 
Cut out of class, just to smoke blunts and drink Notty 
Ain't that funny? Gettin put on to crack money 
With all the gunplay, paintin the kettle black hungry 
case of beers in the staircase I wasted years 
Some niggaz went for theirs, flippin coke as they career 
But I'm a rebel stressin, to pull out of the heat no doubt 
With Jeeps tinted out, spendin never holdin out 

[Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson - Winter Song] 
They say that things just can not grow 
Beneath the winter snow, 
Or so I have been told. 

They say we're buried far, 
Just like a distant star 
I simply can not hold. 

[Eminem - Mockingbird] 
It's funny 
I remember back one year when daddy had no money 
Mommy wrapped the Christmas presents up 
And stuck 'em under the tree and said some of 'em were from me 
Cuz daddy couldn't buy 'em 
I'll never forget that Christmas I sat up the whole night crying 
Cuz daddy felt like a bum, see daddy had a job 
But his job was to keep the food on the table for you and mom 
And at the time every house that we lived in 
Either kept getting broke into and robbed 
Or shot up on the block and your mom was saving money for you in a jar 
Tryna start a piggy bank for you so you could go to college 
Almost had a thousand dollars till someone broke in and stole it 
And I know it hurt so bad it broke your momma's heart 
And it seemed like everything was just startin' to fall apart 
Mom and dad was arguin' a lot so momma moved back 
On the Chalmers in the flat one bedroom apartment 
And dad moved back to the other side of 8 Mile on Novara 
And that's when daddy went to California with his CD and met Dr. Dre 

Yeah 
I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now 
But hey, what daddy always tell you? 
Straighten up little soldier 
Stiffen up that upper lip 
What you crying about? 

[Sara Bareilles & Ingrid Michaelson - Winter Song] x1 

[2Pac feat. Yaki Kadafi - Who Do You Believe In] 
I see mothers in black crying 
Brothers in packs dying 
Plus everybody's high 
Too doped up to ask why 
Watching our on downfall, witness the end 
It's like we don't believe in God 
Cuz we living in sin 
I asked my homie on the block 
Why he strapped, he laughed 
Pointed his pistol as the cop car passed and blasted 
It's just another murder 
Nobody mourns no more 
My tear drops getting bigger 
But can't figure what I'm crying for 
Is it the miniature caskets, little babies 
Victims of a stray, from [bad word] dealers gone crazy 
Maybe its just the [bad word] 
Visions of how the block was 
Crack came and it was strange how it rocked us 
Perhaps the underlying fact stay high 
Explain genocide 
It's when we ride on our own kind 
What is it we all fear, reflections in the mirror 
We can't escape fate 
The end is getting nearer 

Who do you believe in? 
I put my faith in God 
Blessed and still breathing 
And even though it's hard 
That's who I believe in 
Before I'm leaving, I'm askin' the grieving 
Who do you believe in? 

[Eminem - Mockingbird] 
Yeah 
I know sometimes things may not always make sense to you right now