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This song is dedicated to all the homeless and troubled little girls out there who need foster parents, guidance and protection from predators.

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BUS STOP

Little Yvette sits at the bus stop
Hoping that she can make the pain stop
Hiding her tears in the raindrops
Hoping that it’ll make the pain stop...

A little girl in a grown up world
Used to be daddies only little girl
But trying to pay the rent, got him sent
To a cell, where all she sees is his mail
Hell, and if that ain’t hell
mommas got cancer and ain’t feeling well
Too many of those cigarette packs
And drinking Jack Daniels mixed with Exlax

Got her on her back and if that ain’t wack
Brother just got attacked with a gat
Trying to be the man, selling that crack rock
But he got caught, not on a Black block
So he got a chance to hear a gat talk
Before they outlined his body with fat chalk
So now she sits in the world all alone
On her way to school, but has no home

Little Yvette sits at the bus stop
Hoping that she can make the pain stop
Hiding her tears in the raindrops
Hoping that it’ll make the pain stop...

She’s good at science, reading and writing
And thought that her future would be exciting
She had a dream of becoming a doctor
Or a lawyer, but what is there for her
When she has no money and is in poverty
And wears the same clothes every day of the week
She doesn’t have nothing to eat and get’s teased
By other kids, cause of what they see

She wishes she could just fly away
And start a life in a brand new place
Where nobody knows her name and face
And her past could be totally erased
Where she could begin a brand new life
Without all of the struggle and strife
And her family could once again be together
And her situation could be much better...

but...

Little Yvette sits at the bus stop
Hoping that she can make the pain stop
Hiding her tears in the raindrops
Hoping that it’ll make the pain stop...

So she’s sitting there day and night
And won’t go to school, cause it doesn’t feel right
And people come and go and cars pass by
Yet all she does is continue to cry
Stuck in a daze, as guys pull up
Older than her in brand new trucks
And try to talk to her, but what for ?
She’s still a virgin, she ain’t no whore

But they keep on trying , and their bold
Telling her she needs to get out of the cold
But her spirit keeps telling her no
Plus she’s only 15 years old
If only somebody could help her today
If only she knew god was on the way
If only more of us would look around
There’s probably Yvette(s) all over town

but...

Little Yvette sits at the bus stop
Hoping that she can make the pain stop
Hiding her tears in the raindrops
Hoping that it’ll make the pain stop...

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from ACOUSTICALLY SPEAKING, released December 25, 2012

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TONY B. CONSCIOUS Los Angeles, California

A renaissance man (Harlem Renaissance that is), TONY B. CONSCIOUS
is the personification of AFRICAN- AMERICAN culture.

He is (amongst other things) A B-BOY, BEATBOX,EMCEE, GRAFFITI/VISUAL ARTIST (known as “THE GHETTO VAN-GO”), Poet/ Spoken Word Artist, Vocalist, AUTHOR, ACTIVIST, VEGAN VEGETARIAN and PHILOSOPHER.

ALSO a member of THE UNIVERSAL ZULU NATION and THE TEMPLE OF HIP HOP. ... more

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