Mike Dreams - We The Ones lyrics

(Chorus) I woke up early this morning With a new state of mind A creative way to rhyme Without using knives and guns Keep your nose out the sky Keep your heart to God And keep your face to the rising sun This for the ones (Trying to make a dollar outta 15 I swear we wake up every morning tryna get green So it's time to show 'em what we got Straight to the top, tell 'em we won't stop) (Verse 1) Live from the city Where dreams are birthed But nobody know how to raise ‘em So they all end up being dry raisins Amazing how I made it thru the mazes The quotas of the cages I'm only behind bars When you catch me on stages I've been patient Feels like I've been grinding for a lifetime Learning how to write rhymes Waiting for the right time When everybody had them new Nike airs And the best rapper alive had bleach blonde hair I was chillin' in my room spot Rocking to my boom box Nappy headed fro Looked like Huey from the Boondocks And this music was a way to escape That's why I use it as a way to relate To the kids who grew up Watching they parents survive and get by So they kids could go and chase That ribbon in the sky This music of my mind's What I'm using for the grind ‘Til the day they get to see they son shine One time (Chorus) (Verse 2) Reminiscing about life On songs As I record ‘em I remember wanting brand names Hoping we could afford ‘em But my Dad asked me what's more important I could keep you in them brand new Jordan's Or pay this house mortgage We ain't poor But don't get your priorities distorted Now I'm grown And finally get the importance Of keeping me on that layaway And copping them deals off The clearance rack Taught me it wasn't ‘Bout the most expensive appearance But more about making due Doing what you gotta do I used to get ridiculed But it's them same old dudes I see now Every week, they got the brand new shoes But then they can't afford food I'm trying to pay my dues And move up like the Jeffersons From Jeffersons To Benjamins Bus Pa**es to Benzes For putting together sentences This for cousin and people That's doing sentences Just know I'm representing That mission for better living (Chorus) (Verse 3) This for that 20 something girl Working retail Dreaming to be a model In the clothes that she sellin' Baby daddy was a felon And got locked up So she single with no partner With a 6-year old daughter About to start kindergarten But she going back to college Persitence, grinding Them dollars gon' come in due timing ‘Cuz right now, it's coming slow like Small yellow buses At yellow lights Waiting on green To go Get to a better life And so we working And that's how it's gon' be I been in college 5 years Without a college degree But I keep on I know I gotta pay back loans That's why I'm trying to get this money right If it takes a hundred nights Chasing a dream I inspire to take ‘em higher ‘Cuz I told ‘em every since A Juvenile I got that fire God willing, one day You'll get to see me soar And I ain't have to sell crack That's what the CD for (Chorus) I woke up early this morning With a new state of mind A creative way to rhyme Without using knives and guns Keep your nose out the sky Keep your heart to God And keep your face to the rising sun This for the ones (Trying to make a dollar outta 15 I swear we wake up every morning tryna get green So it's time to show 'em what we got Straight to the top, tell 'em we won't stop)