You Grew Up-Oddisee

[ti:You Grew Up] [ar:Oddisee] [al:The Iceberg] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]You Grew Up - Oddisee [00:32.74]Let me take it back to my childhood [00:34.49]When six flags was still called wildwood [00:35.85] [00:36.42]Where I had every race as a neighbor [00:38.14]We were all working class trying to make it out of our hood [00:40.49]My best friend back then was a white kid [00:42.18]We was tight he liked the same things I did [00:44.20]Despite us being different colors man [00:46.05]We were tight as elmer's and we called each other brothers [00:47.93]While I was trying to keep my nikes clean [00:50.08]He was trying to scuff his chucks up [00:51.73]He was grunge I was fresh we were young [00:53.55]And we cuss along to rap trying to sneaking into punk clubs [00:55.96]But things changed when his pops got laid off [00:57.73]He blamed my father for the loss of his job [01:00.05]He said immigrants robbed citizens jobs [01:01.65]And I better never set foot again in his yard [01:04.22]As we became adults in a cult called america [01:06.07]He got himself a job as an officer of law [01:07.98]My thoughts got blacker and his views got cracker [01:09.61]There was no way backwards to the roots at heart [01:12.18]Many years apart I recognized him in the news [01:13.92]He shot a black man that was sitting in his car [01:16.08]Near the same park where we used to shoot hoops [01:18.06]And all I could blame was the cause [01:19.81]You grew up [01:20.45] [01:22.40]No you didn't change [01:23.37] [01:24.11]You were made the same [01:25.39] [01:26.29]As those before you came [01:27.64]You grew up [01:28.48] [01:30.31]All our growing pains [01:31.46] [01:32.26]Were given like our names [01:33.47] [01:34.18]You just bought the blame [01:35.34] [01:36.04]You grew up [01:36.79] [01:38.39]No you didn't change [01:39.36] [01:40.17]You were made the same [01:41.29] [01:42.27]As those before you came [01:43.34] [01:44.34]You grew up [01:45.00] [01:46.40]All our growing pains [01:47.30] [01:48.21]Were given like our names [01:49.35] [01:50.18]You just bought the blame [01:51.70]You grew up [01:52.32]You ever have a friend that became a fanatic [01:54.08]Most of you all haven't [01:55.15]But if you ever did [01:56.06]You'd understand the one thing they all have in common [01:57.72]That somebody took advantage of their damage as a kid [01:59.99]I knew a guy who's folks were professors [02:01.71]Proof in the flesh that allah was a blesser [02:03.94]Grew up in a mid western town [02:05.44]Where there weren't many brown people he could seek reflection [02:07.95]Got picked on in school during lectures [02:09.85]Graduated hating everybody in his class [02:11.87]Picked on because he prayed five to the east [02:13.99]And he didn't eat meat that allah said was bad [02:16.10]One day a man approached him in a mosque [02:17.97]Changed his life when he asked him a question [02:19.92]Do you ever feel your life was a loss [02:21.98]And what if I could teach you that life is a weapon [02:24.21]Attracted strong to the feeling of acceptance [02:25.51]He was soon gone with delusions of a cause [02:27.77]People of the present had faces of the past [02:29.89]Make it easier to blast them if he feel they did him wrong [02:32.02]You can raise a child in a house full love [02:33.99]But can't keep them safe in a world full of hate [02:36.14]So he blew up [02:37.25]The only mistake that could hold all the blame [02:39.07] [02:39.62]You grew up [02:40.41] [02:42.37]No you didn't change [02:43.35] [02:44.33]You were made the same [02:45.34] [02:46.25]As those before you came [02:47.30] [02:48.25]You grew up [02:48.92] [02:50.33]All our growing pains [02:51.30] [02:52.25]Were given like our names [02:53.52] [02:54.27]You just bought the blame [02:55.87]You grew up [02:56.48] [02:58.36]No you didn't change [02:59.63] [03:00.27]You were made the same [03:01.36] [03:02.30]As those before you came [03:03.33] [03:04.12]You grew up [03:04.77] [03:06.36]All our growing pains [03:07.53] [03:08.27]Were given like our names [03:09.42] [03:10.22]You just bought the blame [03:11.88]You grew up [03:12.48]My heart's a jug and when I was born it was filled with love [03:14.81] [03:16.18]It ranneth over life ran me over till I spilled the blood [03:18.66] [03:20.23]I poured the cups and I left it up you to say enough [03:22.76] [03:24.35]Never ending never quenching I sealed it up [03:26.71] [03:28.17]Tried to change my reality but settled for real enough [03:32.32]Life is better when you're thinking lesser go on give it up [03:35.12]When I was younger I was so determined [03:36.82]I would change it all couldn't fly but wasn't chained to fall [03:39.68] [03:40.40]So where is it I put the blame and cause [03:42.17] [03:42.78]Well I grew up