A Chicago Child

[Intro]

No love

[Verse 1]

I'm 19, gotta give me a nine

Cause I live among this city with crime

I mean the grittiest kind

On the block, gotta get on my grind

I stand on cop cars screaming the city is mine

See my mama in the living room on her knees praying

Guess he in the sky, shit God ain't here

Bless for me, please don't say that son

I don't want to lose you, you don't want to lose me

You don't need that gun

Mama please let my arm go

If I don't carry this I don't see tomorrow

Please save all that for another night

That church shit couldn't save my brother life

These other boys out here carrying they automatics

They throwing out the shot gun like quarterbacks

See I'm tired of the lows, so I'm getting high

What's the point of life when we all finna' die

Please tell me what I'm supposed to do

What you trying to tell me, I should vote for who?

Is Obama gone bring my brother back?

Ask God will he bring my cousin back

See ya'll can make the laws without me

Ain't no secret service standing all around me

On your news cast talking all about me, like you really all about me

No love

[Hook]

See I don't dream and I don't cry

No love

Can't you hear the soundtrack

Bring me along, bring me along

[Verse 2]

Walking down the block with my armor

Watch this karma, blood on my Jordans

Watchers recording, the old folks calling po-po, they never came

Reporters saying reporter, tell me who was here to blame?

I put it on the internet, world star homicide

This is my pain that you finna' idealize

Making sure the world know my brother name

They see his killer face and they see me do the same

I seen him on a Saturday, met him in the alley way

Ain't no where to run now it's time to retaliate

Blood everywhere got us looking like anime

Go and tell his mama that his son ain't finna' graduate

They say we living lost in disaster

In all your judgement I never heard answers

Tell me go to school, well I ain't in the mood

Living by my own rules with my gun on the dashboard

[Outro]

Yeah

See I don't dream and I don't cry

No love

Can't you hear the soundtrack

Bring me along, bring me along