Anywhere But Here (Remix)

I gotta get out of here, this city’s gonna kill me

Could be anywhere, anywhere but here

I wonder how long before this shit gone take me under

[Verse 1]

Moving through New York City in a black seven fifty

Like Batman moving through Gotham

Dodging pot holes as I gently move

Through Harlem with my wheels on slalom

Pain in my eyes as I'm passing the place

Where they found Sean Bell and they shot him (Queens)

Forty one times, he committed no crime

But I guess life ain't Times Square

But in the city that’s gritty where the bottom lives shitty

And the mayor’s a billionaire

You learn Manhattan keep on making it

And Brooklyn, keep on taking it

Cause life just ain't that fair

For the kids in the park, watching out for the Narcs

Putting Sour Diesel in the air

Tryin' to flip them a pack, stack up a couple racks

And make it the hell outta here… (New York)

[Hook]

Let the city peel away right from under you

There are too many ghosts in this town

I can hear them calling out to me

I can hear them calling out

[Bridge]

Let the city peel away

There were too many ghosts in this town

I can hear them calling out to me, out to me!

[Verse 2]

I maneuver through the ATL in a black SL

With the goddess of a black female

This is black male Heaven with the ballers are professing

But to me home feels like Hell

Even though it’s black top from the mayor to the cops

Black blood still gets spilled

They raided a house, no drugs were ever found

But a black grandmother laid killed

Like the dream of the King when the sniper took his life

On the balcony of Lorraine Motel

From now forthward, these young black boys

Seem to self-sabatoge they selves

Or maybe they're just smart, and they choose to go hard

Cause they know the good guy will fail

So you ask what happens to a dream deferred

Langston, well it kills itself... (Atlanta)

[Hook]

Let the city peel away right from under you

There are too many clouds in this town

I can hear them calling out to me

I can hear them calling out

Anywhere but here

[Verse 3 – Chamillionaire]

You know there’s so many ways in the streets to get money

But it’s plenty more ways you can die

When you get to the sky, tell the Lord I said hi

I rap behind tint through my city, like that H-Town Diddy

Cheesy cake’ll make em walk more than a mile

The paper chase got embedded in our heads

But don’t let it get it twisted, they might kill you with a smile

And you can say it’s a pity in the city where they’re really killin’ us

Prolly the city that’s in style

See we promote that foolish, then they go and rep to it

And we act like we didn’t notice how

You see the young gettin’ younger but they tougher

Chopper tucked behind the buckle ‘til they pull it like pow

Just ‘cause the turf where you steppin’ or the people you was reppin’ with

Just wasn’t who you should’ve been around

Never caught him by his lonely, he got homies with homies

And he think they’ll be the ones to hold him down

Been watchin’ First 48 and actin’ like he can’t relate

You know your friends the first to snitch on you on trial

Sit down