The Corner 09-Common

[ti:The Corner 09（Beatnick & K-Sa）] [ar:Common] [al:Beatnick and K-Salaam Remixes ] [by:] [offset:0] [00:12.99]Memories on corners with the fours & the moors [00:15.87]Walk to the store for the rose talking straightforward to [00:19.14]Got uncles that smoke it some put blow up they nose [00:22.37]To cope with they lows the wind is cold & it blows [00:25.38]In they socks & they souls holding they rolls [00:28.19]Corners leave souls opened & closed hoping for more [00:31.76]With nowhere to go rolling in droves [00:34.26]They shoot the wrong way cause they ain't knowing they goal [00:37.95]The streets ain't safe cause they ain't knowing he code [00:41.01]By the fours I was told either focus or fold [00:43.81]Got cousins with flows hope they open some doors [00:46.31]So we can cop clothes & roll in a Rolls [00:50.56]Now I roll in a "Olds" with windows that don't roll [00:52.99]Down the roads where cars get broke in & stole [00:55.74]These are the stories told by Stony & Cottage Grove [00:58.88]The world is cold the block is hot as a stove [01:02.19]On the corners [01:03.19]I wish I could give ya this feeling [01:05.82]I wish I could give ya this feeling [01:08.19]On the corners niggas robbing killing dying [01:12.34]Just to make a living (huh) [01:14.47]We underrated we educated [01:15.97]The corner was our time when times stood still [01:20.66]And gators and snakes gangs and yellow and pink [01:23.91]And colored blue profiles glorifying that [01:26.91]Streetlights & deepnights cats trying to eat right [01:30.16]Riding no seat bikes with work to feed hypes [01:32.97]So they can keep sweet Nikes they head & they feet right [01:36.79]Desires of streetlife cars & w**d types [01:39.29]It's hard to breath nights days are thief like [01:42.12]The beast roam the streets the police is Greeklike [01:45.24]Game at it's peak we speak & believe hype [01:48.42]Bang in the streets hats cocked left or deep right [01:51.74]Its steep life coming up where sheeplike [01:54.18]Rappers & hoopers we strive to be like [01:57.11]G's with 3 stripes seeds that need light [02:00.61]Cheese & weaves tight needs & thieves strike [02:03.78]The corner where struggle & greed fight [02:05.91]We write songs about wrong cause it's hard to see right [02:09.85]Look to the sky hoping it will bleed light [02:13.03]Reality's and I heard that she bites [02:15.85]The corner [02:16.78]I wish I could give ya this feeling [02:18.91]I wish I could give ya this feeling [02:21.16]On the corners niggas robbing killing dying [02:25.03]Just to make a living (huh) [02:28.78]The corner was our magic our music our politics [02:32.91]Fires raised as tribal dancers and [02:34.85]War cries that broke out on different corners [02:37.44]Power to the people black power black is beautiful [02:40.23]Black church services murderers Arabs serving burger its [02:43.18]Cats with gold permanents move they bags as herbalist [02:45.99]The dirt isn't just fertile its people working & earning this [02:49.76]The curb-getters go where the cash flow & the current is [02:53.19]It's so hot that burn to live the furnace is [02:56.88]Where the money move & the determined live [02:59.32]We talk play lotto & buy german beers [03:01.70]It's so black packed with action that's affirmative [03:04.63]The corners [03:05.94]I wish I could give ya this feeling [03:08.01]I wish I could give ya this feeling [03:10.13]On the corners niggas robbing killing dying [03:13.88] [03:15.18]Just to make a living (huh) [03:16.88]The corner was our Rock of Gibraltar our Stonehenge [03:19.81]Our Taj Mahal our monument [03:23.08]Our testimonial to freedom to peace and to love [03:28.58]Down on the corner