Ghetto Birds

With your name in wet concrete, you still ain't own the block

Let your money counter tick, time still gon' tock

You could walk around in a Hennessy bliss

And keep fuckin' them bitches that you ain't even kiss

You could keep getting high with them tears in your eyes

And telling yourself you like fuckin' them guys

You got mountains of things

(Get money)

They not high enough to save you when the troops come runnin'

And your shiny new Hummer? That ain't strong enough

To withstand the bombs they gon' drop on us

They got us killing ourselves, numbing our brains

They bugging our phones and fanning the flames

We damn near got our hands out, begging for more

Forget creeping through the window, they walking through the front door

The mystery? (Ain't no mystery at all)

Think you doing big things? Love, they let you ball

Like they let our babies die and lock us in cells

Like our youth ain't got no options, it ain't hard to tell

It's a war going on that you thinking that you safe from

But you like me, in the scope of they gun

Ghetto birds

Here they come

Creeping through your window

Ghetto birds

Here they come

Walking through your front door

Tell me, where will you go?

Our minds have been blinded by a twisted system

They got us thinking if we paid then we different

We're educated to destroy ourselves

Piece by piece dismantle true self

It's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide

Even when we asking questions, they only telling lies

My sore eyes weep like the Shenandoah flows

Lord knows peace of mind is hard to hold

When our people seem resigned to destroying our divine

Our warriors and soldiers can't make a front line

What's the point of having kids if we can't love ourselves?

Listen to the innocents, they screaming for help

We in full battle but we asleep on the field

With our hands over our ears like the bullets ain't real

I'm so tired of speaking faith into space

Hope when the horns cry, I can see your face

Ghetto birds

Here they come

Creeping through your window

Ghetto birds

Here they come

Walking through your front door

Tell me, where will you go?

So many ways, so many courses of action

So many underhanded schemes to break us into fractions

I try laughing just to soothe my sorrows

Watch the neighborhood kids picturing tomorrow

We on borrowed time, with borrowed nines

And they dope in our pockets on enemy mines

Understand, I judge no one or they path

I love some true life killers who know I still ask

What you think it'd be like if we was really prepared?

And they call me a dreamer, say they ain't know and ain't scared

I stared at this rhyme for days and prayed

On the last night heard at least fifty shots sprayed

Then, ghetto birds and screeching sirens

Could vomit from the violence, bless they soul in calm silence

I'm just tired of the death, folks turnin' they cheek

Like the conspiracy ain't real and we own these streets

Ghetto birds

Here they come

Creeping through your window

Ghetto birds

Here they come

Creeping through your window

Ghetto birds

Here they come

Walking through your front door

Tell me, where will you go?

Ghetto birds

Here they come

Talking on their radio

Ghetto birds

Tell me, where will you go?

Here they come

Here they come

Creeping through your window

Creeping through your window

Creeping through your window

Tell me, where will you go?