If you're 17 and you're wearing a hoodie
You're on your phone and you're talking to your Shawty
Make no mistake

There's one like you in every city
You know the story
He gonna creep up, from behind,

Have you leave earth before your time
By the time, po-po show up
He gonna say he was so scared

That he shot you up
He could have been the next president
He could have been the next Steve Jobs

He could have been the next astronaut
So until we get justice
We won't stop, neighborhood watcher

If you're 17 with a hoodie on, watch out for the neighborhood watcher
If you at the right neighborhood at the wrong time
Neighborhood watcher

This might be your last call to your girlfriend
Neighborhood watcher
Man I fear for you, if you're 17

If you're 17 you should learn the law
Fight with your mind, stronger than arms
Make no mistake, there's one like you

On every block, in every country
Soon as unite, and become one gang
Like the bridges and the tunnels if you don't understand

Freedom yeah, for Trayvon
He could have been the next president
He could have been the next Steve Jobs

He could have been the next astronaut
So until we get justice
We won't stop, until the man he killed

He go down the hole
But how ? you gonna come to a gun fight
With no guns to draw

The younging that you left with his blood spillin
We consider him our family
But the man wrestled you to the floor, and he didn't pull his ratchet

You need to stop it, neighborhood watcher
If you're 17 with a hoodie on, watch out for the neighborhood watcher
If you at the right neighborhood at the wrong time

Neighborhood watcher
This might be your last call to your girlfriend
When shots fire

Man I fear for you, if you 17, neighborhood watcher
Neighborhood watcher, oh, neighborhood watcher, oh.