Back Home (feat. Common & Styles of Beyond) (Explicit)-Fort Minor/Common/Styles of Beyond

[ti:Back Home] [ar:Fort Minor] [al:224376] [by:] [offset:0] [00:11.53]Back home [00:12.84]Everybody's searching for somethin' [00:15.27]But all they can find is a whole lot of nothin' [00:17.18]Back home [00:18.00]Ain't nobody hoping and praying [00:19.83]'Cause they feel like nothing can save 'em [00:22.19]And they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact that [00:24.88]Life goes black when those lights go out [00:27.15]But I guess you gotta just watch out for your own [00:29.97]'Cause ain't a damn thing free [00:31.94]Back home [00:32.60]Back home / they holler disciple and blackstone [00:35.69]Same block the freebase yo we trapped on [00:38.04]Where our grandmothers marched / The guns clap on [00:40.82]There's liquor stores beauty supplies and rap songs [00:43.44]I travel the world just to come back to it [00:46.15]The crib got a lot of soul like black music [00:48.84]I'm attached to it [00:50.02]In many ways this city raised me / and gave me [00:52.48]The drama honor and bravery [00:54.36]The streets seem hollow / when I go to Chicago [00:56.42]It's cheap wine and sorrow [00:57.85]Times is hard to swallow [00:59.59]In search of God's tomorrow / I borrow words from the [01:02.30]Bible / and use them for survival / gangs rival [01:04.63]Signs painted on walls like hiero / glyphics [01:07.85]I tell 'em that this is all tribal [01:10.29]Used to do dirt / Shorty's goin' through the same cycle [01:12.42]And trials like Michael / tryin' not to stay idle [01:15.43]Back home [01:16.78]Everybody's searching for somethin' [01:18.87]But all they can find is a whole lot of nothin' [01:20.83]Back home [01:21.20]Ain't nobody hoping and praying [01:23.93]'Cause they feel like nothing can save 'em [01:25.86]And they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact that [01:28.89]Life goes black when those lights go out [01:31.25]But I guess you gotta just watch out for your own [01:33.58]'Cause ain't a damn thing free [01:35.34]Back home [01:36.23]Back home it's not Compton but close [01:37.78]The same problems exist and the pain throbbin' [01:40.16]And folks are so common [01:41.93]It don't / really bother us much we just swallow it / uh [01:44.94]Crack the bottle and smoke / hope tomorrow something [01:47.19]Magical happens that'll put me back in the biz [01:49.87]But the chances of it acutally happening's kinda slim [01:51.79]Back home / we get the good life at a glimpse [01:55.18]In the form of a rap star ** dealers and pimps [01:57.98]I'm back home [01:59.05]I try my best to keep it together it's cold [02:01.23]Like the Windy City streets of December [02:03.08]I pace back and forth / looking for the courage to shine [02:05.59]But can't lap the source / need something to nourish my mind [02:08.30]I know we all lose quite a bit in life [02:10.37]Only to gain some [02:11.07]Life or the dark winding roads we came from [02:14.18]But I move with the night / so I'm used to the shade [02:16.58]And never lose sight / bringing truth back to the game [02:19.37]Back home / We've got a lot of sh*t on our minds [02:22.25]We're always behind on something cause there's not enough time [02:24.77]And we're non-stop / bottom line / doing what we gotta do [02:27.22]To get some food in the fridge and stay out of the hospital [02:29.61]Back home there's people calling us hopeless [02:32.82]People trying to tell us all we need is some focus [02:35.40]But focus [02:36.46]Focus is overrated [02:37.95]Cause you see every blemish and mistake and can't change it [02:41.13]Back home is Alvarado / K-Town and J-Town [02:44.17]Or Little Tokyo for those that don't know [02:46.15]Where figures shiver / living right in the littler [02:47.70]Where kids write bigger / right inside the LA river [02:50.72]On the concrete / a symbol of our everyday way [02:53.47]Its that color and concentration over heavy and grey [02:56.52]And by the time the ink dries on this page [02:58.93]I'll be half a day away from the place where I stay [03:01.52]Back home [03:03.24]Everybody's searching for somethin' [03:05.56]But all they can find is a whole lot of nothin' [03:07.72]Back home [03:08.09]Ain't nobody hoping and praying [03:10.21]'Cause they feel like nothing can save 'em [03:12.11]And they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact that [03:15.34]Life goes black when those lights go out [03:17.62]But I guess you gotta just watch out for your own [03:20.22]'Cause ain't a damn thing free [03:22.76]Back home [03:35.50]END