[Verse 1: Smino]
Where I was growing up
They called coroner
Around the corner
Every morning
Where the f** Tom Joyner?
No fair, it ain't fair how
The murder rate
Fermanate Ferguson out to Fairground
sh** made me wanna
Sell my soul through the music
Put the streams on water
Ancestors on my head
My uncle my barber
Blood s**as want my bread
So I ordered the garlic
Hustled too hard, these blessings ain't yours
So when I
Pull up and park it, my front seat a toilet
sh** of
Course I'm a target, they hope I get martyred
Lose ya
Corpse in a corporation
Ten years of cooperation
Been wanting to throw bows at Becky
Been wanting to throw jabs at Jason
Gotdamn need a long vacation
Bong rip and a bad b**h
Thick fine with them dimples on it
Love how it shake when it's that thick
Lil' seminar on the simmer down
Feel a lil' more ambitious now
Never doubt what you dream about
Never fear what you feelin' now
[Chorus: Via Rosa]
Even when you knew my truths
Even when you knew my mistakes
Said you loved me anyway
Said you loved me anyway
Oh Lord, gimme a sign
Show me a way
I been alone
I been afraid
And you were s'posed to be there for me in the
Long run
What have you done?
[Verse 2: Smino]
Where I was growing up
Stanley and Marlon
Did it big on the corner, every morning
Had etc on 'em
Encountered a jump out
Them boys undercover
To f** us it all made sense now
sh** made me wanna
Tippy toe when I'm moving
Pray I don't get bothered
Cut my hair low for the gig
Can't nap on the guala
Only way they let me in
Was speaking so very proper
But f** that, no it don't stop here
I knock the sign over speeding
Traits of the greatest, I'm balling
Tracy McGrady
I swear I, hate police, hate them
Nah n***a, they don't wanna see me shine
Straight to the paper regardless
b**h we ballin'
Not a slave to the fear
Anymore, I won't allow it
Watchin' tapes of these kids gettin' k**ed
Lookin' like me
Cut that sh** off
They can't desensitize me
I realized that in clusters they can't touch us
I've been tusslin' with my brothers and my sisters about lovin'
'Cause this country don't love us
It ain't for us, mane, f** 'em
[Chorus: Via Rosa]
And you were s'posed to be there for me in the
Long run
What have you done?
[Outro: Via Rosa]
Don't give me no
Give me no reason to doubt you
'Cause I was living just fine
Living my life without you
And you were s'posed to be there for me in the
Long run
What have you done?