9th Wonder - True Romance lyrics

This is a story Of when the streets fall in love Really fall in love, where your life depends on that love For the average ghetto child, the yellow brick road is dim The lights are blacked out and the chances are cut slim The success rate never outweighs the opposite Money, cash, hoes, is something we gotta get Boys learn how to be men from getting caught up And grown women can't find time to raise daughters So this is what happens when a girl is left out A future princess forced to the next route Her name was Heaven, beautiful from day one An angel on Earth if god ever made one But she was born and raised in the pits of poverty Cocaine deals, homicides and robberies Daddy walked out on Heaven before preschool Mommy wasn't around to show her what the streets do She was finding out what a bottle of Hennessy does And hated her daughter for being prettier than she was Seemed like Heaven knew anything but that The older she got, the more hell would come back By the time she was approaching thirteen She knew how to lick them lips and work jeans Eighteen came and went, and so did high school She paid the bills by f**ing with the right dudes But she wasn't known for ho'ing in the streets Cla**y with hers, no a**, just hugs Something like a female mac, full blown Never fall in love with her, you know the code But all that changed when her eyes were placed upon Marcus Neighborhood hustler, heartless Grew up the same way Heaven did Parents was dead beats, so he felt heaven was heaven sent Started off slow then it grew sky-high Ladies and gents, meet the new Bonnie and Clyde Chorus They say true romance is hard to get to know And the ones with it never really let it go But when it's hood, the real stick by one another And you ride or you die for your lover And that's real The more time pa**ed, the more they were together They both found love so they was down for whatever He gave her quality time, she would hide his bricks Soul mates, he called her his ride or die b**h Needless to say, she deaded the blind dates Marcus was still in the streets, but why wait He took her out of her home, took her out of her hell She said bye to Reeboks, said hi to Chanel Anything Heaven wanted, Marcus gave her And she adored him, looked up to him like a savior She would be his lookout when he was doing dirt He gave her a .22 and made her keep it in her purse Showed her where the stash was under the mattress And she would give him back rubs without him asking He made her bag dudes, flirt a little bit Go on dates while Marcus would stick up the crib They was ruthless, but honestly, how could you blame them? They only had each other, nothing is what they came from But the hood was hating, and when they saw the money they was making The cops was sent in to break 'em Heaven got rid of the coke before they kicked in So Marcus was only charged with breaking and entering Judge hit him off with a mandatory 5 Small bid but Heaven knows he couldn't do the time For the first two weeks, Heaven fell apart She ain't just lose a man, she lost her heart And every week she was sending him letters and pictures Slide through on a visit, give him weed when she kissed him Six months pa**ed and Marcus couldn't take it Being in a box was stripping his heart naked f** that, he wrote back in one of his letters "Daddy's coming home, I need a piece of Heaven" Chorus Late night, Marcus kidnapped one of the guards and Snuck past the security margin Dressed like a C.O., he met Heaven in the next town With a rent-a-car, but little did he know Word spread fast that an inmate dashed And pigs from all over was plotting on his a** Cop cars flying at 110 speed Tipped off by a gas station at 10-D Shots start going off aiming at the rental Heaven at the wheel and sh** is getting suspenseful One flew through the back, caught Marcus in the back And tapped the bone, he felt something crack Heaven started crying and sweating all heavy Doubling the speed limit but holding it steady Marcus told shorty to drive to the crib She thought he was crazy but still listened to her baby Parked out front and dragged him up the stairs Went inside and laid on the floor, scared The bullet still sitting there, stuck in his spine He whispered to his woman that he's coming to die Now she's getting hysterical, taking it hard He said before I go to jail, I'd rather die in your arms She crawled to the mattress, pulled out the .9 Kissed him goodbye and helped him close his eyes With his lifeless frame laying there in her lap Her heart felt weak, her soul started to crack She started hearing sirens, the D's was coming But without her other half, she couldn't see running Cops start kicking in the door all reckless She took a deep breath and reached for a weapon Put it in her mouth and ruined the cops' plans Squeezed the trigger, she was back with her man In heaven