Street Lights

Aight mom, I'm out I'll see you later Yeah I know, be home before the street lights 14 years old, I live in Oakland A nigga too cold, I hoop like Kobe I said f*ck school and tried to focus On nothin' but my game to make the pro league Me and my dawg the streets we rollin' That wasn't my life and yes, I know this Any other time, I wasn't posin' I'm ridin' my bike around the corner And pull up to the park after dark cause my mom work nights She was tryna better our life We was in the hood, it wasn't too good but the landlord gave a good price Food stamps for the eggs and the rice It's the weekend, I'm back on my bike I'm headed to the B&G club I give mom's love, I'll be home by nine Everywhere I go, I look up at the streetlights Anytime on the road you know I, look up at the streetlights Even out for a stroll you know I, look up at the streetlights Wanna find my way home you know I, look up at the streetlights Yeah, look I was a young mixed kid Right in the middle of a warning and a ticket There was times when I listened There was times when I didn't wanna hear it so I didn't Then I moved some distance Down to the south, I was a little different Then my door got kicked in And I knew right there, I didn't wanna live here I wanna leave this hood shit It was bad, but there was some goodness All the friends that I had was good kids Just trapped in the life of the crooked, but I don't mean offense to them niggas They get it how they can and I get it But I got other plans for my living Street lights came on, gotta get in Everywhere I go, I look up at the streetlights Anytime on the road you know I, look up at the streetlights Even out for a stroll you know I, look up at the streetlights Wanna find my way home you know I, look up at the streetlights Yeah, look, I post up in Emeryville I'm a Bay kid as bad as a Navy SEAL Out in Lakeview, my little bro a baby still Then we moved to the Kirk and I hate it here Grandma in the city when we visit there I loved to ride the bus cause it made me chill Looking out the window, couldn't believe it's real Every time I'm there, I just take it in My first crush name, Janet She would call me giggles from laughing At everything even if it wasn't that funny cause if I didn't laugh, I would panic I'm on the way home from the dances Street lights came on, walk faster If I'm out too late, my back gon' break cause my mom known for whoopin our asses Everywhere I go, I look up at the streetlights Anytime on the road you know I, look up at the streetlights Even out for a stroll you know I, look up at the streetlights Wanna find my way home you know I, look up at the streetlights Everybody had a house phone in my days Call up the bros, push the three-way Talk about the hoes and how that one day We gon' have them all cause we gon' get paid, Fasho We hit the arcade We was just boys trying to get laid Never knew the price that consequence pays We all grew older, went our own ways But f*ck One got caught by a bullet Another one lives in a gulag Another one had heart problems down on his luck, out of time and he knew it I'm the only one left trying to do it I fight hard not to say screw it I need another outlet, streetlights now lit Heavy on the brain when I'm looking Everywhere I go, I look up at the streetlights Anytime on the road you know I, look up at the streetlights Even out for a stroll you know I, look up at the streetlights Wanna find my way home you know I, look up at the streetlights Street lights