[Verse 1]
I used to dream every night, now I don't dream at all
Hopin' that it's cause I'm livin' everything I want

Used to wake up in a bed between my mom and aunt
Playing with this land before time toy from pizza hut
My dad works nights

Putting on a stone face
He's saving up so we can get our own place
In the projects, man that sounds fancy to me

They called me fat nose, my mom say you handsome to me
Mrs. glover ma'am, your son is so advanced
But he's acting up in class and keeps peeing in his pants

And I just wanna fit in, but nobody was helping me out
They talking hood %#@! and I ain't know what that was about
Cause hood %#@! and black %#@! is super different

So I'm talking hood %#@! and cool it now like new edition
Mom and dad wouldn't listen
They left the bronx so I wouldn't be that

All their friends in ny deal crack
It's weird, you think that they'd be proud of him
But when you leave the hood they think that you look down on 'em

Truth is we still struggle on a different plane
7 dollars an hour, with vouchers, it's all the same
Facebook messaging hopin' that could patch up %#@!

But all they get now is, "can your son read this script?"

[Hook]

There's a world we can visit if we go outside
Outside, outside
We can follow the road

There's a world we can visit if we go outside
Outside, outside
No one goes

There's a world we can visit if we go outside
Outside, outside
We can follow the road

There's a world we can visit if we go outside
Outside, outside
No one knows


[Verse 2]
Yeah

Dad lost his job
Mama worked at mrs. winner's
Gun pulled in her face

She still made dinner
"donald watch the meter
So they don't turn the lights off"

Workin' two jobs so I can get into that white school
And I hate it there
They all make fun of my clothes and wanna touch my hair

And my uncle on that stuff that got my grandma shook
Drug dealers roughed him up and stole his address book
He's supposed to pay 'em back

He owe 'em money but his bank account is zero
So my momma made us sleep with phillips heads under the pillow
Like that would do somethin'

But she's got six kids, she's gotta do somethin'
She don't want me in a lifestyle like my cousin
And he mad cause his father ain't around

He lookin' at me now, like
"why you so $#&@in lucky?
I had a father too

But he ain't around so I'mma take it out on you"
We used to say "I love you"
Now we only think that %#@!

It feels weird that you're the person I took sink baths with
Street took you over
I want my cousin back

The world sayin' what you are because you're young and black
Don't believe 'em
You're still that kid that kept the older boys from teasin'

For some reason

[Hook]


[Outro]
Can you hear me now?
Can you hear me now?
Oh, help us lord

Oh, baby baby baby