Never Be Nothing

Can you look into a mirror?
 Get a clearer picture, of what
 Surely disappears
 No if, ands, or buts
 All these people in my ear
 Tellin' me to stay down, don't get up
 Just lay down, oh, for what?
 Ya ain't think we could make the cut
 Didn't know I could take this much
 Can you blame for my hatefulness?
 You been doubted by the same, as us
 Misplaced, in a race that sucks
 Like you, they abandoned us
 No trace, what a disgrace, mislead
 Lookin' for a place to lay my head
 And feel safe, change of pace, when I'm dead
 Don't waste a single tear, do not shed
 Just know, I'm leavin' here, was a man
 Who wasn't suppose to be in here, and I'm glad
 I finally got to beat the fear, that I had
 I don't wanna be here, sometimes
 Feel like I'm stuck in the wrong line
 Long time, it's been feelin' lost, while
 Even try to abide to the false lies
 It was never my intention, to be misunderstood
 But, if I don't stand for nothin'
 That must mean that I'm no good
 I must have given off the wrong meaning, I'm so confused
 But, you never know what it's like to win, until you lose
 It was never a game to us
 Weren't nobody playin' at all
 Time is all that seemed to change
 And, we're still standing tall
 I remember when they told me
 That we would never be nothing
 We would never be nothing-nothing
 Who am I?
 Not sure of responses
 To formulate answers, to questions asked
 What is a man?
 Is he a hope of a fruitful future?
 Or the sum of a barren past?
 Through the looking glass
 The perception's off, but the image of a hold of a broken sort
 Of a puzzled man, pieced himself together so many times
 Over time, he become a few pieces short
 Now, he resort to drinkin' and drugs, to vent
 Slowly, he descendin' from a hundred percent
 He becomin' more in tune, with the things he against
 While he's steady layin' bricks, in the walls of resent
 Now, with all due respect, how can I unplug or disconnect?
 I don't wanna hurt no feelings, or stop checks
 I don't wanna give what's mine to who's next
 'Cause, I worked too fuckin' hard for this
 And, I can't go back, just forward from here
 Can't take it all away, or make it all disappear
 Gonna wear my flaws, like my has-been fears
 To a throwback time, that's far from clear
 Say twenty-twenty vision come from hindsight
 And, the second time around, you better get the shit right
 By the third time around, could be quicker than a glance
 Fuck around, I might not get another chance
 It was never my intention, to be misunderstood
 But, if I don't stand for nothin'
 That must mean that I'm no good
 I must have given off the wrong meaning, I'm so confused
 But, you never know what it's like to win, until you lose
 It was never a game to us
 Weren't nobody playin' at all
 Time is all that seemed to change
 And, we're still standing tall
 I remember when they told me
 That we would never be nothing
 We would never be nothing-nothing