Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers - Born In Chicago lyrics

[Verse 1: Eryn Allen Kane] I was born in Chicago in nineteen and ninety-one I was born in Chicago in nineteen and ninety-one Well, my father told me, "Honey, you better get a gun" Well, my first friend went down when I was seventeen years old Well, my first friend went down when I was seventeen years old Well, there's one thing I could say about that boy, "He gotta go" [Verse 2: Sasha Go Hard] I was born in Chicago, k**ers everywhere you go Can't even visit on the porch cause them bullies be tryna score And look here's be wanting more to play around in the playground Instead they gather, stay down and pray it's safe inside that door But it ain't fun when they got the guns up, put 'em down In Chiraq they'd rather be a shooter than look like a clown That your family was so crazy, young girls keep having babies Mama said, they grind, they weak, lost they baby to the streets I'ma pray everyday to get my family out the hood I'ma pray everyday to get my family out the hood Gotta make sure my brother keep his head inside that book Gotta make sure my brother keep his head inside that book Cause where I'm from, in the streets your life can get took Cause where I'm from, in the streets your life can get took In Chiraq they hanging police lights in every hood In Chiraq they hanging police lights in every hood [Verse 3: Eryn Allen Kane] Well, my second friend went down When I was twenty one, twenty one years of age Well, my second friend went down When I was twenty one years of age Well, one thing I could say about that boy, he better pray Well, my blues are alright if there's someone left to play the game Well, my blues are alright if there's someone left to play the game And all my friends are going, and things just don't seem the same Oh, things just don't seem the same, baby Oh, things just don't seem the same, baby [Outro: Sasha Go Hard] Born in Chiraq