| Now that I think about it | |
| I was always takin away from my father | |
| Or he was always takin away from me | |
| It's probably why we so close now | |
| Ya kno[Chorus:] | |
| We been starvin so long in these crazy ghetto streets | |
| And they say we're so wrong for the way we try to eat | |
| How long will he struggle | |
| I gotta grind jus to eat now | |
| I gotta eat jus a lil now | |
| So I gotta live my life this way[Verse 1:] | |
| I stretched and yawned4 years from a newborn | |
| On a charter bus | |
| Filled with stranged humans | |
| Besides my mother nobody seems anxious | |
| Though we on our way to visit a college campus | |
| We roll up freshen up at a food concession | |
| Can't talk to strangers | |
| I wanna ask em questions | |
| Saw a woman cryin | |
| Boy face the fence | |
| I don't wanna go to college | |
| If it causes this | |
| Back on the bus still analyzin vibes | |
| Turned to my moms excel asked her'why you cryin? ' | |
| She said because | |
| I'm happyBut | |
| I could tell she lyin | |
| And since lyin was a curse | |
| I sense storytellin | |
| Her eyes focused on a object long enough they tingle | |
| That's when she reached into her bag because her phone was ringin | |
| She said ' | |
| I accept'I'm still puzzle piecin | |
| I knew my pops was on the other line | |
| Lonely singin[Chorus][Verse 2:] | |
| Soon after we roll up to these gates | |
| Barbed wired up | |
| Men standin in the entrance armed up | |
| With a close eye on us | |
| We enter the buildin | |
| Got checked by the women who starin | |
| My motherPull out a card with a picture of her face on it | |
| Two papers with our names on it | |
| They identify her | |
| They lookin at me | |
| Me my confusion of the journey | |
| Thorugh these walls we go | |
| Before the next one opens | |
| The past one must close | |
| As they check for proper clothes | |
| My mama so prepared | |
| For this mini battle has chose | |
| Finally we reach our final destination | |
| My poppa placed in a seat | |
| Facin meNo women in his class | |
| Jus men who never laugh | |
| And when they see they family | |
| They sing[Chorus][Verse 3:] | |
| So I begin my investigation | |
| My elbow on the round table | |
| My palm at chin | |
| I'm lookin at him | |
| Ask questions like'how you been? ''when you graduatin? ' | |
| Time was up got pulled away | |
| Kickin and screamin | |
| Tears came to his eyes | |
| But never fell in front me | |
| Got old enough to realize | |
| Must've fell up under me | |
| Bein locked away in prison from your family | |
| Tryin to find ways for us to eat | |
| I see[Chorus] |
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