Room With A View-Brother Ali

[ti:Room With A View] [ar:Brother Ali] [al:Shadows On The Sun] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Room With A View (看得见风景的房间) - Brother Ali [00:29.86]One side of the street is malone's funeral home [00:32.86]And the other side's a library [00:34.86]Try very hard to picture this sh*t [00:36.92]Walk through where I live at [00:38.46]Where parents are embarrassed to [00:39.72]Tell you they raise their kids at [00:41.21]If you need some half and half [00:42.65]Or an eight ball you could get that [00:44.14]F**k with little rodney [00:45.18]And you get all of your ribs cracked [00:46.75]In a location where slangin' crack rock is not seen [00:49.33]A f**kin' recreation but a vocation [00:51.85]And the sellers and the smokers are both pacin' [00:54.64]Got one eye on minneapolic PD they both racin' [00:57.93]Three for fifty is the supply and demand [01:00.51]In the twin cities american heartland [01:03.06]And they been busy [01:04.23]Masterminds tearing apart plans [01:06.08]And hoop dreamers ballin' with blisters [01:08.00]On their hands [01:08.83]With chains dangling from the rims [01:11.20]Pain strangles them from within [01:13.48]Until a belt around the arm makes [01:15.24]The veins stand at attention [01:18.28] [01:19.58]I try to block it out with a bed sheet [01:21.44]That moonlights as a curtain [01:22.49]Cause I'm not comforted by red [01:24.06]And blue lights when I'm hurting [01:25.41]“Mommy loves you” [01:26.48]Yeah I knew but I wasn't certain [01:27.96]Cause the lenses through [01:29.02]Which she views life wasn't working [01:30.81]As a boy she told me [01:32.01]“Wait for your father to come home” [01:33.82]I'm 24 still waiting for my father to come home [01:36.31]And some parents only touch their children [01:38.00]When the whips brought [01:39.04]That's why bad kids to bad sh*t [01:40.61]Just so they can get caught [01:42.10]And get touched; this growing up sh*t's rough [01:44.33]That's a big part of why we're so mixed up [01:47.06]Sh*t we don't have bah mitzvahs [01:49.00]We become men the first time our father hits us [01:51.64]And we don't open gifts up [01:53.11]Sister regina from across the street is beautiful [01:56.00]But for fifty bucks [01:57.07]Ain't nothing she won't do to you [01:58.83]Used to be premium p**sy now she's used up [02:01.44]For that same fifty bucks she gotta [02:03.22]Do some new stuff [02:04.27]Whatever it takes to make you pull the dollars out [02:06.88]If you don't intervene [02:07.92]Then there's a day she'll turn her daughter out [02:09.83]Speaking of kids [02:10.72]I'm fixing lunch for my first born [02:12.47]I had the windows wide open [02:14.16]'Cause the weather's warm [02:15.37]That's when the greatest hits of donnie hathaway [02:17.64]Got interrupted by [02:18.60]A drive-by shooting half a block away [02:20.75]Faheem was I the window he didn't get hit though [02:23.43]“All praise due allah” [02:26.17]I see all this from the desk [02:27.63]That I write my rhymes from [02:29.05]Pen starts to scribble on it's own my mind's numb [02:31.77]But you could call me modern [02:33.31]Urban norman rockwell [02:34.64]I paint a picture of the spot well [02:36.65]I see all this from the desk [02:38.36]That I write my rhymes from [02:39.88]Pen starts to scribble on it's own my mind's numb [02:42.53]But you could call me modern [02:44.21]Urban norman rockwell [02:45.29]I paint a picture of the spot well [02:47.76]I see all this from the desk [02:49.44]That I write my rhymes from [02:50.92]Pen starts to scribble on it's own my mind's numb [02:53.71]But you could call me modern [02:55.24]Urban norman rockwell [02:56.46]I paint a picture of the spot well