The Corner

[Intro]

The corner, the corner

Where you learn to earn

Where you get determined

There's a place in your mind where your darkest thoughts reside

It's what I shout anytime I get on an elevator

(The corner, the corner)

Only some of y'all know about that

[Verse 1: Talib Kweli]

Man they work us like dogs

Our tongues wag at the corpses

Corner the market like corporate all from a corner office

Smog out our lungs, black as the smoke

Just try to pass up the soap

Get hit in the back of the dome with the four fifth

Put Olympics where niggas is passing the torches

To every hand in the ghetto

We Hansel and Gretel we trapped in the forest

We went from captives on boat trips

To the corners with the rats and the roaches

Now we grind with spectacular foes and jokers

In the corner of the club making the models nervous

Any nigga try to front send them some bottle service

We follow verdicts like Buddhists to follow Sherpas

Respect what they say

Yesterday's fights, tomorrow's murders

I hope and I pray that you never forget where you came from

Close to the slaves except this light post that we hang from

Nightmares of getting [shot at?] and woke with the same gun

[Hook]

That was just a dream

That’s me on the corner

That’s me in the spotlight

Fucking cop don’t say I ain’t warn you

Trying to keep up with me

And I don’t know if you can do it

Oh no I’ve said too much (that was just a dream)

I haven’t said enough (that was just a dream)

(That's me in the corner)

[Verse 2: Jay Rock]

Woke up this morning like fuck all of my opponents

Grabbed my strap, jumped in that hooptie

Hit the block and hit some donuts

I’m hanging out the window middle finger to the police

Shining diamonds got them blinded by reflections of this rollie

I was broke as shit, they didn’t know me then

Niggas hands out, always on that owe me shit

Sometimes I get paranoid like when I was holding bricks

Everyone’s a suspect - be careful who you rolling with

For that blow, guns blow like trumpets

Home invasions get your ticket-free lunches

Reminiscing off Rémy yea that’s the remedy

Roof over my head, you seen how they did Kennedy

Life is a traffic jam, trying to get by

Kweli, light up the fire

Time to get high, know why?

Because...

[Outro]

That was just a dream

That was just a dream

That's me in the corner

That's me in the spotlight

Losing my religion

Trying to keep a view

And I don't know if I can do it

Oh no, I've said too much

I haven't said enough

I thought that I heard you laughing

I thought that I heard you sing

I think I thought I saw you try

But that was just a dream

You try, you cry, you fly, you try

That was just a dream

Just a dream

Just a dream, dream