Same Old Story Lyrics

Look

Alone in the dark is where I figured out my best moves

Running through the trenches like we had somewhere to get to

Lost a couple brothers shits been fucking with my mental

I'm waking up in cold sweats like I caught a chest flu

It's five in the morning they found another younging dead in the streets

I got to thinking bout how heaven could be

I wanted better for me

Chains on my brothers cost eleven a piece

And I ain't saying they indebted to me, we built this shit off loyalty

I'm just hoping you could ride to this

Spark a blunt, lower the window get high to this

We not defined by our shining wrist or designer fits

Stand for the struggle I'm co-signed by them

Cause we was forced to find comfort in a hell hole

Went from walk-i talkies to talking over jail phones

Same old story, another younging getting caught in the system

He needed help but there ain't no one to listen, it's the same old story

Another younging laying dead in the streets

I got to thinking bout how heaven could be

I wanted better for me

Chains on my brothers cost eleven a piece

And I ain't saying they indebted to me, we built this shit off loyalty

You see, when you come from nothing it's hard to stand for something

You know what I'm saying

But when you stand for nothing it's like you fall for anything

Just know there's somebody just like you

On the other side of things tryna figure it out

Honestly the choice is yours

Look, aye

Momma told me to stay outta trouble gotta keep my nose clean

Grew up in cold world, city full of dope feens

Reflection in the mirror, I don't even really know me

Some niggas say I'm acting different, fuck is you gone show me

Been running with some older cats and they be on some wild shit

Fronted me a little work I'm boutta have the town lit

We grew up off government cheese and public housing

So how the fuck did they expect us to get from around it

I started trapping heavy built my reputation gradually

Streets done made a man of me, some niggas tryna vanish me

I started turning into something that I never planned to be

Just by tryna add a couple fruits to my family tree

I guess it's how it had to be, we living by the street rules

We tired of top ramen, day dreaming over sea food

Deadliest mixture broke and angry shit is lethal

Stuck up in a cycle, life ain't nothing but a sequel

It's the same old story