Tye Free - Home Lyrics

Look how I made out
All the nights I had stayed out
University pay out
I don't care what they say bout
All them days, picture like - all us in Tig apartment
Callin' plays
All the secrets written in pen I authored, I
Know how they off 'em, cool with who they report to
Know what's in store for Ivy League done endorsed it
I don't resort to comments, pain wasn't yours to promise, made you ignore
So y'all could blame me for all this
Formal affairs I'm known to be there
Gold watch and a rosary band
My girl never in New York it's to cold to be there
In California she belong in a home we could share
I'm still sorting affairs
In Babylon Empire the state
Brownstones and fire escapes
From a block where they fire at jakes
Caught up the higher stakes
Brought up supplied by the state
Walk-ups, entire estates
Saying

Know I need better things
No I ain't settling
Don't know about you but what that say about me
Said I would never change
I put that on everything
You know that I never care what they say about me
Pray that I'll be
Home 'fore the streetlights come but this ain't about me
Said that I'll be
Home where the streets die young 'til the day that I'm free

City of metal and steam, brick settlement greed
Just so we settle with dreams, Machiavellian schemes
Tell me I'm out of my league, but I treat it the same
Like women that I use to see, glad of who they became
Know that you got me to blame
But this the last time that you call me out of my name
Pour a shot of D'usse
Cup on ice, sitting on flights and shifting through cash
Up all night dealing wit life but livin' it fast
We pour liquor
Spillin' in wards, we use to sleepin' on floors and
Keeping bundles in drawers, the neighbors argue through walls
I drown it out in my head
Dreaming a better life I would rather live instead
Can't get out of my bed
That's the difference between me and them
Say you come to me direct but you CC'ing them
All in the park late, sticking to the plan we was born where the sharks ate
Viewings and court dates
Government lies, corporate ties, we troubled with war
Given this life, naming the price, it come with a cost
I would just pray that hope's alive
I'm a slave in a storm but the boat survived

Young and dangerous
I left the Parkway racing
I ain't got the time for it
I know I'ma grind for this
I know my money wasted
To spend my twenties chasing
I ain't got the time for this
I know I'ma grind for this
Don't think my pride will let me stay
Fix all my problems in LA
Said I'd be down through everything
Hard times my consequence of change
Don't know my block you can't relate
Fix all my problems face to face
Said you'd be down for everything
Know I be round it ain't the same

Know I need better things
No I ain't settling
Don't know about you but what that say about me
Said I would never change
I put that on everything
You know that I never care what they say about me
Pray that I'll be
Home 'fore the streetlights come but this ain't about me
Said that I'll be
Home where the streets die young 'til the day that I'm free