Back Home-Fort Minor

[ti:Back Home] [ar:Fort Minor] [al:224376] [by:] [offset:0] [00:11.47]Back home [00:12.78]Everybody's searching for somethin' [00:15.21]But all they can find is a whole lot of nothin' [00:17.12]Back home [00:17.93]Ain't nobody hoping and praying [00:19.77]'Cause they feel like nothing can save 'em [00:22.13]And they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact that [00:24.82]Life goes black when those lights go out [00:27.09]But I guess you gotta just watch out for your own [00:29.90]'Cause ain't a damn thing free [00:31.88]Back home [00:32.54]Back home / they holler disciple and blackstone [00:35.63]Same block the freebase yo we trapped on [00:37.97]Where our grandmothers marched / The guns clap on [00:40.76]There's liquor stores beauty supplies and rap songs [00:43.38]I travel the world just to come back to it [00:46.09]The crib got a lot of soul like black music [00:48.77]I'm attached to it [00:49.96]In many ways this city raised me / and gave me [00:52.42]The drama honor and bravery [00:54.29]The streets seem hollow / when I go to Chicago [00:56.35]It's cheap wine and sorrow [00:57.79]Times is hard to swallow [00:59.52]In search of God's tomorrow / I borrow words from the [01:02.23]Bible / and use them for survival / gangs rival [01:04.56]Signs painted on walls like hiero / glyphics [01:07.79]I tell 'em that this is all tribal [01:10.23]Used to do dirt / Shorty's goin' through the same cycle [01:12.36]And trials like Michael / tryin' not to stay idle [01:15.37]Back home [01:16.71]Everybody's searching for somethin' [01:18.81]But all they can find is a whole lot of nothin' [01:20.76]Back home [01:21.13]Ain't nobody hoping and praying [01:23.87]'Cause they feel like nothing can save 'em [01:25.79]And they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact that [01:28.83]Life goes black when those lights go out [01:31.19]But I guess you gotta just watch out for your own [01:33.52]'Cause ain't a damn thing free [01:35.28]Back home [01:36.17]Back home it's not Compton but close [01:37.71]The same problems exist and the pain throbbin' [01:40.10]And folks are so common [01:41.87]It don't / really bother us much we just swallow it / uh [01:44.87]Crack the bottle and smoke / hope tomorrow something [01:47.13]Magical happens that'll put me back in the biz [01:49.81]But the chances of it acutally happening's kinda slim [01:51.72]Back home / we get the good life at a glimpse [01:55.12]In the form of a rap star ** dealers and pimps [01:57.91]I'm back home [01:58.98]I try my best to keep it together it's cold [02:01.17]Like the Windy City streets of December [02:03.02]I pace back and forth / looking for the courage to shine [02:05.53]But can't lap the source / need something to nourish my mind [02:08.24]I know we all lose quite a bit in life [02:10.31]Only to gain some [02:11.00]Life or the dark winding roads we came from [02:14.12]But I move with the night / so I'm used to the shade [02:16.52]And never lose sight / bringing truth back to the game [02:19.31]Back home / We've got a lot of sh*t on our minds [02:22.19]We're always behind on something cause there's not enough time [02:24.70]And we're non-stop / bottom line / doing what we gotta do [02:27.15]To get some food in the fridge and stay out of the hospital [02:29.55]Back home there's people calling us hopeless [02:32.75]People trying to tell us all we need is some focus [02:35.33]But focus [02:36.40]Focus is overrated [02:37.89]Cause you see every blemish and mistake and can't change it [02:41.07]Back home is Alvarado / K-Town and J-Town [02:44.10]Or Little Tokyo for those that don't know [02:46.08]Where figures shiver / living right in the littler [02:47.64]Where kids write bigger / right inside the LA river [02:50.66]On the concrete / a symbol of our everyday way [02:53.41]Its that color and concentration over heavy and grey [02:56.46]And by the time the ink dries on this page [02:58.86]I'll be half a day away from the place where I stay [03:01.45]Back home [03:03.18]Everybody's searching for somethin' [03:05.50]But all they can find is a whole lot of nothin' [03:07.66]Back home [03:08.02]Ain't nobody hoping and praying [03:10.15]'Cause they feel like nothing can save 'em [03:12.05]And they try to hold out but they can't fight the fact that [03:15.27]Life goes black when those lights go out [03:17.55]But I guess you gotta just watch out for your own [03:20.15]'Cause ain't a damn thing free [03:22.70]Back home [03:35.43]END