Yeah, it's a lotta crazy things that's going on out here man. We so known to it, so used to it. We don't talk about it, we just do our thing, we live our life, you know, But some I just feel compelled to talk about it, you know?

Talk to 'em.

[Chorus]
A lot of money got made, drugs got sold
Lives got took on these corners so cold, oh

Imagine if the street lights, could talk and tell the story of the street life
Every ghetto in America, is all the same
Chasing after money, got us all insane, oh

Imagine if the street lights, could talk and tell the story of the street life

Ah, I look back and reflect doing a hundred pass

Thinking about it got me have me on the gas
Vivid is the picture coded in my DNA
Mommy bless her heart, as we walked out the door she would pray for us

Knew that Jake was on us, decks stacked against us
Same %#@! different toilet,
Another life flushed down the (?)

Left the house without saying goodbye and didn't come home
It's all too common, and prolly me if it wasn't for Rami
I put that on my brother who was wildin' with the iron

The hood is full of life but on the inside inside ^!$$%s dying
Instead of prosperity, only jealousy is thriving
Street lights (?) makeshift memorials

Know how the story goes, I ain't trying to bore you though
I'm just trying to shed a little light
Job done, even if I save only one life, listen


[Chorus]
A lot of money got made (made), drugs got sold (sold)

Lives got took on these corners so cold, oh
Imagine if the street lights, could talk and tell the story of the street life
Every ghetto in America is all the same (all the same)

Chasing after money got us all insane, oh (going crazy, just imagine)
Imagine if the street lights, could talk and tell the story of the street life


Missing dark tunnel vision, the light at the end damn is anybody listening
I'm talking to myself again, we so close but yet it seems so far
It's like 10 steps back and just one step forward

Just one more push and 16 more bars,
Comes to the dreams we have, the life we want
If these blood sweat and tears could talk, they'd be arguing,

With the look in our eyes, say it all, listen
That bone in your head, get shattered like windshield
Now how that %#@! feel?

Yeah you got a lot of nerve, you deserve
Every drop of that pain, when you playing with the mobb
Can't you see we concentrating on this baking

Lot of lives got taken, lot of time spent in the cages
So we spend our days doing whatever must be done to become
The ones that steady burn like the sun because


[Chorus]
A lot of money got made, drugs got sold

Lives got took on these corners so cold, oh
Imagine if the street lights, could talk and tell the story of the street life
Every ghetto in America is all the same

Chasing after money got us all insane, oh
Imagine if the street lights, could talk and tell the story of the street life


I can tell you about some %#@! you don't really wanna hear
So many disappeared out here
One time I saw a man with a gun

Chasing another ^!$$% trying to run
And even know they grew up on the same block
He ain't hesitate to gun him down in the same spot

The ^!$$% that you knew from elementary
Will make your $$# an unsolved mystery


[Chorus]
A lot of money got made, drugs got sold
Lives got took on these corners so cold, oh

Imagine if the street lights, could talk and tell the story of the street life
Every ghetto in America is all the same
Chasing after money got us all insane, oh

Imagine if the street lights, could talk and tell the story of the street life