Comin From Where I'm From

[Intro: Super Fly Excerpt]
Ya know, you've got this fantasy in your head about gettin outta the life and setting that other world on its ear...What the fuck are you gunna do except hustle? Now man I ain't puttin you down...I'm just trying to make it real baby like it is...

[Verse #1: Lupe Fiasco]
Lupe Fiasco (came from the ghetto)
You know, Food & Liquor (it's the ghetto right here man)
Nah I don't know man it touched me so much you know I had to do it..
Ay it's real here
Dope fiends steal here
Turn around give us the money to buy wheels here
Give you the chills yeah
Developers don't build here, the property values low cause we're still here
Better believe most of us want to leave
Furthest we went was out of our minds but we still here
Weapons concealed here
Lil sisters on the pill here
Cant pay our bills here but we like to chill here
Gotta reap what you sow, grow what you till here
Yo momma weep for your soul cause you was killed there
Police put cameras on poles too many deals there
Gotta go to the county cause you was filmed there
How does it feel knowing innocence was killed here?
Last night at the park beating heart was stilled there
For the love of this chain I make appeals here
Lets pray for our brains bust-downs kneel here

[Chorus #1: Anthony Hamilton, Lupe Fiasco]
I try to make it right
Comin from where I'm from, I'm from
Times has gotten hard
Comin from where I'm from, I'm from
Times you gotta walk to work yall
Comin from where I'm from, I'm from
Sometimes you gotta do a little dirt
Comin from where I'm from, I'm from

[Verse #2: Lupe Fiasco]
There was once a child in here
cause all the tribulations and the trails in here
And all the limitations of his housing, there
Became a teenage trafficker a thousandaire
Captivated by what the drug dealers told
Infatuated with what the drug dealers drove
A life validated by what a drug dealer holds
On the stand cause what another drug dealer told
A drug dealer woes, time waits for no man
No woman waits for a man with time on his hands (they don't)
Didn't you know lord they fearing ye now, they hearin' ye now
Especially when the conspiracies come down
We come down get humble Its no longer fun now
But who's gonna hustle to feed his son now?
From the cradle to the cage
We bring our sons up to get gunned down
Our daughters to have more its more (it's war)

[Chorus #2: Anthony Hamilton]
Sometimes it gets lonely
Comin from where I'm from, I'm from
Things aint what they seem to be
Comin from where I'm from, I'm from
Sometimes you get a little angry
Comin from where I'm from, I'm from
Somethings get the best of me
Comin from where I'm from, I'm from

[Bridge: Anthony Hamilton]
Well, tried to be good (I tried)
Wanted nothing but to love somebody
Didn't wanna die young
Steady hustling trying to feed my family
Too scared to have kids
And do like daddy did
Cause I'm so scared of failing
Sometimes it gets hard
Comin from where I'm from

[Verse #3: Lupe Fiasco]
But it's beautiful here
It's nothing like the feeling when you do it from here (your heart)
You aint have to move a pack, you aint have to shoot a gat
And you still took your momma and you moved her from here
You aint dropped out when you figured the world out
Can survive bout' anywhere learned how to do it in here (your mind)
Yeah, that's how we do it in here
Hearing shorties at players like music to the ears
We still get by you know?
Comin from where I'm, I'm from

(Chorus #3: Anthony Hamilton]
Sometimes you gotta moan
(Comin from where I'm from, I'm from)
Sometimes you gotta cry a little bit louder
(Comin from where I'm from, I'm from)
Sometimes you gotta fight the pain
(Comin from where I'm from, I'm from)
Sometimes you gotta walk alone
(Comin from where I'm from, I'm from)
Sometimes you get a little worried
(Comin from where I'm from, I'm from)
Sometimes you get lost outta touch
(Comin from where I'm from, I'm from)
Sometimes I think I pray a little bit too much
(Comin from where I'm from, I'm from)
Sometimes I get a little scared
Comin from where I'm from, I'm from
(Repeat x2)