Top Songs By Downsyde
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Downsyde
Performer
Harts
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Chester Burnett
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Downsyde
Producer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I'm a poor boy, I'm a long way from home
I'm a poor boy, I'm a long way from home
What others know, the world can't do me no harm
I'm a poor boy, I'm a long way from home
[Verse 2]
I come from an ancient land that is strong and rich with the culture
Now I'm stuck inside a city of self pity and vultures
I see a cop grinning, he whistles and taps his holster
Ready to pull the trigger like R2 on controller
That's messed up, I know that my life wasn't blessed up
But that don't give 'em rights to just come and arrest us
Next I see, blue lights behind me
I guess that it's strike 3, I'll try to keep my head up
[Verse 3]
What have we missed?
Whatever lies under the mist?
What ever crime did we commit
To ever get put under something like this?
Tell 'em we nine
We on a cloud up in abyss
We are the people, the first to exist
Don't have to put up with none of your shit
Cut like a knife
Open up like a surgeon
All the rain we submerged in
Held the trauma since birthing
Tell 'em it curtains
Since they came we been hurtin'
Poor boy victim to the streets ain't deserve this
[Verse 4]
They're not deserving this, a victim of the system, yeah the urban kid
Fuck suburban bliss, it's just an urban myth
No one concerned with him
A younger lad who's more a punching bag for his drunken Dad
He's wondering why he's hurting him
He's living a life and it never get better, you better be ready to handle the weather
The streets getting them ready to run when they're robbing a shops and often
Just wanting to eat for the treat
But Police got him that day
Now he's in court, front of a judge hopin' they hear him when he say I'm a poor boy
[Verse 5]
I'm a poor boy, I'm a long way from home
(Long way from home)
I'm a poor boy, I'm a long way from home
(Long way from home)
What the others do, the world can't do me no harm
(Do me no harm)
I'm a poor boy, I'm a long way from home
[Verse 6]
We've had enough, listen up
I'm putting in my 2 cents
Been about the trouble since they Labelled me a Nuisance
Nothing but the struggle, my brothers in the recess
Locked up by the huddle doin' time by the sentence
Tell 'em, cuz, we love you
Poor boy lucky
Came up by the grain of his teeth getting ugly
It's a cold world trust me, when no one there to help you
A long way from home on our way can't stop me
[Verse 7]
You can't stop it, it's pure and not for profit
Fewer are for losses of dollars inside their wallets
Being poor's not the problem, the problem is in ya pocket
Taking just what ya wantin' and seeing no other option
When I'm dead and inside my coffin I'll rest knowing the fact
Everything I've ever taken I've given it right back
You took what you shouldn't, you shouldn't disguise that
Ya been caught out buddy we ready to fight back, I'm a poor boy
[Verse 8]
I'm a poor boy, I'm a long way from home
(Long way from home)
I'm a poor boy, I'm a long way from home
(Long way from home)
What the others do, the world can't do me no harm
(Do me no harm)
I'm a poor boy, I'm a long way from home
[Verse 9]
Babe, I can't stay here long
Babe, I can't stay here long
What the others do, the world can't do me no harm
I'm a poor boy, I'm a long way from home (Long way from home)
Written by: Chester Burnett