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[00:15.16]I used to dream every night, now I never dream at all
[00:26.13]I'm hopin' that it's cause I'm livin' everything I want
[00:28.58]I used to wake up in a bed between my mom and aunt
[00:31.88]Playing with this Land Before Time toy from Pizza Hut
[00:34.23]My dad works nights, putting on a stone face
[00:36.79]He's saving up so we can get our own place
[00:39.82]In the projects, man that sounds fancy to me
[00:42.48]They called me fat nose, my mom say you handsome to me
[00:45.15]Mrs. Glover ma'am, your son is so advanced
[00:47.59]But he's acting up in class and keeps peeing in his pants
[00:49.69]And I just wanna fit in, but nobody was helping me out
[00:53.27]They talking hood shit and I ain't know what that was about
[00:56.32]Cause hood shit and black shit is super different
[00:58.68]So I'm talking hood shit and cool it now like New Edition
[01:01.29]Mom and dad wouldn't listen
[01:02.59]They left the Bronx so I wouldn't be that
[01:04.78]All their friends in NY deal crack
[01:07.19]It's weird, you think that they'd be proud of 'em
[01:10.13]But when you leave the hood they think that you look down on 'em
[01:12.62]The truth is we still struggle on a different plane
[01:15.31]7 dollars an hour, WIC vouchers, it's all the same
[01:18.30]Facebook messaging hopin' that could patch up shit
[01:21.09]But all they get now is,
[01:22.80]"Can your son read this script?"
[01:23.89]There's a world we can visit if we go outside
[01:26.21]Outside, outside
[01:29.11]We can follow the road
[01:33.05]There's a world we can visit if we go outside
[01:37.07]Outside, outside
[01:40.05]No one knows
[01:45.04]There's a world we can visit if we go outside
[01:48.03]Outside, outside
[01:50.90]We can follow the road
[01:54.17]There's a world we can visit if we go outside
[01:58.72]Outside, outside
[02:01.92]No one knows
[02:07.26]Yeah
[02:08.40]Dad lost his job, mama worked at Mrs. Winner's
[02:13.02]Gun pulled in her face, she still made dinner
[02:15.59]“Donald watch the meter so they don’t turn the lights off"
[02:18.34]Workin' two jobs so I can get into that white school
[02:20.83]And I hate it there
[02:22.56]They all make fun of my clothes and wanna touch my hair
[02:25.07]And my uncle on that stuff that got my grandma shook
[02:27.96]Drug dealers roughed him up and stole his address book
[02:30.62]He’s supposed to pay ‘em back
[02:32.27]He owe 'em money but his bank account is zero
[02:34.47]So my momma made us sleep with Phillips heads under the pillow
[02:37.06]Like that would do somethin'
[02:39.00]But she’s got six kids, she’s gotta do somethin'
[02:41.45]She don’t want me in a lifestyle like my cousin
[02:44.00]And he mad cause his father ain’t around
[02:46.61]He lookin’ at me now, like
[02:48.45]"Why you so fuckin lucky? I had a father too
[02:51.78]But he ain’t around so I'mma take it out on you"
[02:53.88]We used to say "I love you," now we only think that shit
[02:56.67]It feels weird that you’re the person I took sink baths with
[02:59.47]Street took you over, I want my cousin back
[03:01.93]The world sayin' what you are because you’re young and black
[03:04.75]Don’t believe ‘em
[03:06.46]You’re still that kid who kept the older boys from teasin'
[03:08.75]For some reason
[03:10.68]There's a world we can visit if we go outside
[03:13.13]Outside, outside
[03:16.01]We can follow the road
[03:19.56]There's a world we can visit if we go outside
[03:23.74]Outside, outside
[03:26.74]No one knows
[03:31.64]There's a world we can visit if we go outside
[03:34.83]Outside, outside
[03:37.80]We can follow the road
[03:42.19]There's a world we can visit if we go outside
[03:45.73]Outside, outside
[03:48.85]No one knows
[03:58.86]Can you hear me now?
[04:00.80]Can you hear me now?
[04:06.30]Oh, help us Lord
[04:10.98]Oh, baby baby baby
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